Where to Find Legitimate Micro Jobs

01 Amazon Mechanical Turk

One of the original micro job employers, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk lists human intelligence tasks (HITs) that remote workers choose and complete for a fee that's set by the requester. Available tasks include image and video processing, data verification and cleanup, information gathering, data processing, and more.

02 Appen

Appen is a translation and language solutions firm that also offers remote micro jobs, which it calls "crowdsourcing." Projects are all done using a computer, ranging from transcribing audio to user experience research and content evaluation.

03 Clickworker

Clickworker uses a crowdsourcing platform to distribute tasks to remote freelance workers. Tasks can be done from a computer or mobile device, and include data categorization, copy editing, proofreading, web research, taking surveys, and more.

04 ClixSense

Workers on ClixSense are assigned simple tasks to complete online, along with instructions. These tasks can include performing Google searches, categorizing images, and more.

05 EasyShift

Users can download the EasyShift app on their mobile device and complete at-home or location-based "shifts." Most of the shifts include taking photos of items in stores for consumer brands looking to track their products, and the turnaround time is usually 24 hours.

06 Figure Eight

Formerly known as CrowdFlower, Figure Eight says its mission is "empowering data scientists to train, test, and tune their machine learning for a human world." Its remote contributors choose projects from a task wall that's regularly updated. Some examples of the tasks include categorization of social media posts, content moderation, and audio transcription.

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