Micro job pay varies depending on the site you work for and the type of task you complete. But no matter which platform you choose, understand one thing at the outset: you won’t make a lot of money doing micro work. You’ll earn a few dollars per hour at most.

You should join picoworkers it's best micro worker website

For example, when New York Times writer Andy Newman tried his hand at micro jobs on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, the biggest micro job site, he reported averaging just 97 cents per hour.

Granted, some sites pay more than others — and it’s even possible to do better than that on Mechanical Turk, once you’ve racked up experience and qualified yourself for better jobs (the site uses a tiered ranking system). Additionally, some sites will increase your pay the longer you continue doing micro jobs for them.