Correction, October 4, 2026. On September 2 we said 12 of the 19 platforms we checked published no pay figure. That was wrong. 13 of the 19 print a dollar figure somewhere we could read. We could not read 3 in whole or in part. We rewrote this post below.
We also said Grubhub prints a New York City rate. It does not. The number is on the city’s page. The old title said only 7 of 19 sites say what they pay. We changed it.
Correction, October 28, 2026. We earlier said Liveops prints no rate. That was wrong. Its job pages print rates. We moved Liveops to the first list below. The count is now 14 of the 19 with a figure. Two print a rule or a range and no rate: SCSEP and Clickworker. Three we could not read: Instacart, Rover and Fancy Hands.
Lists of side gigs often print an hourly rate. We wanted to know where those rates come from.
So we read the platforms’ own pages, plus the government pages that set pay rules. Not review sites. Not forums. We looked for one thing: does the platform say what the work pays?
Here is what we found. 14 of the 19 print a dollar figure on a page we could read. 2 print a pay rule or a range and no rate. We could not read 3, in whole or in part. A count hides how useful each figure is, so the lists below show the wording.
A printed figure is not always a useful one. Some are old. Some cover one state. Some say “up to.” Read on for the details.
Prints a figure
These 8 print a pay figure on their own site. Look at the age and the wording of each.
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TranscribeMe. Its help page says beginners get $15 per audio hour. An audio hour is one hour of recording, not one hour of your work. Its jobs page says earnings start at $15-22 per audio hour. The same page says “average monthly earnings are $250”. That label is TranscribeMe’s own. That page gives no method for it.
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Amazon Flex. Its home page says most drivers earn $18-25 an hour. The page marks the figure with a footnote. The footnote says actual earnings vary by place, tips and delivery time.
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UserTesting. Its FAQ says you can earn up to $60 for each test or interview. “Up to” is a ceiling. Its pay page says reward amounts vary by test. See our UserTesting page.
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Scribie. A Scribie blog post says you can get paid $5-20 per audio hour. That post is from 2022. Scribie says it pays by audio hour, not by the time you work.
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Shipt. Its newsroom printed a floor of $16 an hour. A floor is the lowest pay a company says it will offer. That post is dated Feb 8, 2022. Its current shopper sign-up page names no amount.
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Rev. Its freelancer page says pay is $0.40-1.10 per audio or video minute. See our Rev page.
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Prolific. Its pricing page sets a minimum of $8 an hour that researchers must pay. Its help page says a long study can fall below that floor. See our Prolific page.
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Liveops. Its application site says pay is per talk minute. A talk minute is a minute you spend on a call. Rates vary by client program. The job pages we read with a figure print different rates.
- Healthcare support: “ranges from $13.25-$26 per hour”.
- Spanish bilingual support: “ranges from $15-$30 per hour”.
- Tax product support: “Invoice $0.34 per talk time minute” “providing services during the 2026 tax season”.
- Life and health insurance sales: “$0.32 per minute of talk time”, plus a “3.20% commission on issued New Annualized Premium”. A premium is the price a customer pays for an insurance policy.
All five job pages we read carry a footnote. It says “Earnings are not guaranteed”. Pay depends on the “client programs you support, call volume, your performance, and the time” you put in. The customer service page says only: “Compensation varies by client program”.
Prints a figure only where a law sets pay, or only for one state
A few cities and states set a pay floor by law. A floor is the lowest pay a company may offer. Grubhub and Uber Eats print figures for some of those places. For the rest, they name a rule or print no amount.
- Grubhub. Its Seattle page prints $0.44 per minute plus $0.74 per mile. Its California page says drivers get at least 120% of the local minimum wage for active time. Its New York City page says drivers get at least the city’s minimum hourly rate for active time. It prints no dollar amount. The number is on the city’s page: at least $22.13 per hour. Its pay page names a local minimum rate and prints no amount. See our Grubhub page.
- Uber Eats. Its New York City page prints $21.44 per hour of trip time, plus additional earnings. Uber calls that the city’s standard method. The city’s own page says $22.13. The two numbers differ. We do not know why. Its California page says at least 120% of the minimum wage for active time. Its courier pages say your pay comes from base fare, promotions and tips. The pages we read print no general rate.
- DoorDash. Its newsroom printed average hourly earnings for California Dashers, in posts from January 2022 and May 2024. Both cover time spent on deliveries only. We do not print the amounts here. They are old, cover one state, and come from DoorDash’s own news posts. You can read the 2022 post and the 2024 post yourself. The Dasher sign-up page names a minimum guaranteed hourly rate for active time. It prints no amount.
Prints a rule, but no rate
These name how pay is set. They give no rate on the pages we read.
- SCSEP. The Department of Labor says it pays the highest of the federal, state or local minimum wage. You can check that rule. See our SCSEP page.
- Clickworker. It says there is no hourly rate, and pay is per task. Task pay runs from cents to two-digit euro sums.
Prints a price, not pay
- Outschool. It suggests charging $18-21 per learner per hour. The teacher gets 70% of the class price. Your pay depends on how many learners join. Math and English tutoring has a $30 an hour minimum price. See our Outschool page.
Set locally
- Poll work. Election offices publish the pay. We found two states. South Carolina pays $75 for working election day. New Jersey pays $300 on Election Day. See our poll work page.
Numbers that disagree
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GoTranscript. Its jobs page headline says “Earn up to $1.75 per minute”. The page has an earnings calculator. Its data lists 156 languages. Rates run from $0.20 to $2.38 per minute, and English is $0.65. No language is priced at $1.75. The top rate is above the headline, and the headline matches no rate in the table.
The page also says it is not accepting new transcribers. In the page’s own code, that message is the one set for English. We read that code on October 28. See our GoTranscript page.
We could not read it
For these 3, a bot wall or a robots.txt rule kept us out. A robots.txt file is a note that tells automated readers which pages to skip. We follow it. Not being able to read a page is not the same as the platform printing nothing.
- Instacart. Its main site tells bots to stay out. On its shopper site, the pages we read say pay depends on role type and other factors. They show no figure. We cannot tell if city pages show a number.
- Rover. Its sitter pages, blog and help site answered our visit with an HTTP 403. That code means the site refused the request.
- Fancy Hands. Its robots.txt blocks the page where assistants apply. The pages we could read give no assistant pay. That is not proof it prints nothing.
Why this matters to you
A printed figure can still mislead you. Here are the ways we saw.
It can be old. Shipt’s floor is from 2022. Scribie’s post is from 2022.
It can cover one place. DoorDash’s claims are for California.
It can lag the law. Grubhub’s Seattle page prints $0.44 per minute. The city’s 2026 minimum is $0.47. We do not know what Grubhub pays today.
It can be a ceiling. “Up to $60” and “up to $1.75” tell you the best case. They do not tell you the usual case.
It can be an average with no method. TranscribeMe’s jobs page gives no method for its $250.
It can disagree with the rate table. GoTranscript’s headline matches no rate in its own data.
When a platform prints no hourly rate, any hourly figure you read came from somewhere else. A survey, a review site, one person’s week. Those can help. They are not the platform’s rate.
What to do instead
Ask what the unit is. Per hour, per task, per delivery, per audio minute. Audio time is not your working time. Scribie says it pays by audio hour, not by the time you work. Rev prices by the audio or video minute. Ask which clock a number uses.
Look for the date. An old figure may still hold. It may not.
Find the floor, not the average. A floor is the lowest pay a rule allows. If a government prints it, you can check it. An average is someone’s arithmetic on someone’s sample. Even a floor can slip. Prolific says a study can end up below its minimum.
Subtract your costs before you compare. If you deliver in your own car, fuel and wear are yours. An hourly figure that skips them is not your pay.
Time your first five jobs. Your own rate is total pay divided by total hours. It is the only number that describes you.
What we do about it
Every pay figure on this site comes from a page we checked. We keep the source and the date we checked it for each one. When we cannot read a page, we say so. We do not say a platform publishes nothing when we only could not see the page. We checked most figures above on October 4, 2026. We checked again on October 28, 2026. That check covered Liveops, Uber’s courier page, the date on Shipt’s post, and GoTranscript’s hiring message. It also covered the pages we could not read.
We also say where a figure is old, local or capped. We got this post wrong the first time. We would rather fix it in public.
You can see every gig we have checked, or read how we work.