I’ve been taking paid surveys online for over 11 years. Lots of readers want to know the best paid survey sites, so here is a list of favorites I personally recommend / have been paid by. Yes, you do actually get paid.
By far the easiest survey site and highest earnings are from Surveyhead. They are by far my favorite site to use; they payout with paypal or Amazon gift cards & you get $5 free just for signing up. If you are going to try any site first, try Surveyhead:
Surveyhead <–Click here to get your FREE $5 sign up bonus (then click the link in the email message you receive from Surveyhead to activate your account and start receiving paid surveys!)
MommyTalk Surveys – If you are a parent, this is the perfect site for you. Get $5 FREE to sign up. It’s similar to Surveyhead but has more surveys just for parents. I LOVE this site!
Synovate Global Opinions Panel – A paid survey site that is known for sending LOTS of HIGH QUALITY products to try for FREE! You get to try the products for FREE, and also get paid to take a survey about them!
Harris Poll Online - get paid to take surveys and try possible new FREE products
Ipsos Survey Panel – (United States and Canada Ipsos Survey Panel sign up link) – been sending out more invitations recently, and you can sign up in USA or Canada!
Toluna Opinions: Earn $ for taking surveys AND test products for free! Plus you will get an entry for a $2500 sweepstakes when you register!
Valued Opinions Survey Panel – surveys up to $200 per survey! They send out tons of survey invitations too!
Surveys.com – currently taking a limited number of sign ups through this link each day, hurry!
PureProfile – one of the TOP survey sites in Australia is launching in the USA! This site pays you real instant cash for participating in surveys!
*NEW & IMPROVED* Coupons & Freebies Mom survey panel – EXCLUSIVE opportunity to earn $80+ each month! Pays via Paypal or check
NPD Online Research – get paid cash to take surveys + win up to $5000 – lots of great monthly giveaways too!
GlobalTestMarket – paid surveys + possible FREE products!
MyView – sends HIGH PAYING surveys, including a $125 paid survey
USA Talk Now - sent out invitations for an $720 paid online research study! They pay via Paypal or check!
Focus Forward – routinely send out invitations for $100+ research opportunities!
Pinecone Research – an EXCLUSIVE panel that only accepts sign up at certain periods.They pay QUICKLY via Paypal, and you are automatically qualified for every survey they send! CLICK HERE to see if they are currently accepting sign ups!
AIPSurveys - taking sign ups for a LIMITED TIME through this link, hurry!
HotSpex – get FREE Paypal cash & Amazon gift cards
ZoomPanel – Share your opinion and get rewarded. Your opinion can drive how leading companies improve and develop new products and services.
SurveySpot – sent out FREE snack food products and a $180 paid survey!
Cash Crate - this one offers everything from paid surveys to get paid to try offers. Cash can add up pretty quickly with the more offers you do!
Survey Savvy – they have sent out more invitations recently, including one for a $50 survey. Woot!
My Survey- they send out quite a few invitations and their surveys are quick and fun! Some lead to paid trials (where you get paid to try new products at home)!
Opinion Outpost – one of my FAVORITES, cash out at $5! I get lots of survey invitations and the surveys are fun!
Mindfield Online - sends out LOTS of survey invitations, some lead to PAID TRIALS… and the minimum payout level is $5. Plus, they pay via Paypal (or check if you prefer).
American Consumer Opinion – nice variety of paid surveys
Epoll – Free Amazon, Starbucks, Target gift cards & more + win up to $250 just by joining!
HCD Surveys- this one offers lots of surveys where you watch a video (very fun!) and also health care and political surveys (it was great fun during the 2008 election!)
Inbox Dollars – get $5 to sign up, paid surveys and get paid to read emails, plus get paid to do offers. Cash adds up quickly through offers.
Send Earnings- get $5 to sign up, a sister site to Inbox Dollars, very similar
MyPoints – We have been using mypoints since about 2001 and have gotten dozens of $25 restaurant gift cards (starbucks, chili’s,etc) as payments. They also have target, walmart even paypal payout options.
National Consumer Panel (formerly Nielsen Homescan)- You can earn points redeemable for scanning your grocery purchases as well as doing surveys. Cash in the points for electronics (TVs, gaming systems) and other awesome prizes. Lots of cool freebies!
***And, even though it’s not technically not a “paid survey” company, we also get money by reading emails:
Hits4Pay - get $10 to sign up, get paid to read emails, cash out at $25, paid via Paypal
Lastly, you can also make money selling used books to Cash4Books, if they aren’t taking your books now, try again in a couple weeks as they cycle through their inventory. A great company to deal with.
If you want to read our original article with the proof of payment photos (pictures of checks received), here is a link to the original Make Money Online article.
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love your cash4books link sold 3 of my medical books from school thanks so much love your site!
I’ve been a member of surveyheard and just revisited this page of all your survey sites, my surveyhead only offers me magazine rewards now, you have that they have a paypal option, is this still true?
In the rewards panel, click the drop down arrow by where it says “$10.00″ – select $25.00 – you’ll see the Amazon gift cards there on page 1, and paypal on page 4.
Hmm, I’m an 18 year old college student still living with my parents and would love to get a little extra cash doing these surveys, but in the registration for some of these sites (surveyhead, for example), they ask for information like income, how many children are in your household, etc… it seems like they want the head of the household to do these surveys, and I’m obviously not lolz. Does this actually matter, or are such questions just ‘standard proceedure’??
Just be honest in answering the questions and they’ll match you to surveys!
I signed up for NPD and it seems that they pay in “sweepland points” which can be entered in contests for cash/prices but that is it. Have I just not received a cash survey yet or is this normal procedure for them?
What about taxes? Do you have to claim the money you make on your taxes at the end of the year?
I don’t remember how I did it, but I did get a $5 check from NPD recently. I would get more from places but I don’t get to do any of them very often. If I could get that organized, I think it might be fun. Sure sounds like it is for everybody else.
Great list of survey sites … thanks, so much for compiling it. What frustrates me is that on some of the survey sites, I’m never eligible for the survey … and I don’t get denied until I’ve already answered a ton of questions. So it’s a waste of my time for no points, money, etc. The best ones are ones where I can actually complete the survey or I’m given partial credit for trying.
I would like to know if anyone here participates in these survey sites setting aside 4 or more hours per day to do them 5 days per week or more. If you are doing this, on average how much per week are you able to earn doing it? I am seriously considering signing up with a few of these since I need a part time income that would allow more flexibility than the job I have now which earns me around $1000 per month but sometimes it’s less if they cut hours based on traffic. Thanks!
I agree with ‘Small Footprints’. It is time consuming and so hardly seems worth it.
noone talks about the taxes. What happens when you owe to uncle sam? then you need to pay self empolyment taxes and full medicare taxes. this adds up! and the surveys are not going to cover it. you need to save at least half of what you make. then how do you prove it to the govertment? you dont get statements like you do a regular job. you need to pay state and federal taxes, some places city tax to. when you make over $600.00 total combined surveys sites and prizes you get from these survey sites.
I like to know how people deal with this so I know what to really do with this.
thank you for your time and efforts in this matter! I am sure I am not the only one thinking of this…….
I am not a tax professional. If you make $600 or more at one particular survey site, that site will send the form to you that you submit along with your taxes. If I make more than $600 at a particular survey site, yes, I do pay taxes on it. Consult your own tax professional for your personal situation. Taxes are very little, compared to what I make on the survey sites. It is definitely worth it to take paid surveys, even if you make more than $600 a year at one site, in my opinion.
& which site do you make 600 at?
The specific sites will vary for everyone. We have some folks making $600 or more a year on the Coupons & Freebies Mom survey panel. Also some folks make that or more in one year on Toluna, Surveyhead, Surveyspot and Mommytalk. I’d say those are some of the biggest ones for most folks.
Is anyone else having any problems with I-Say? For the last several months many times I do the survey when I enter the drawing it doesn’t keep my info! But, sometimes it does! ALSO, there are quite a few survey’s on my list that don’t give me points…they just have a – where points should be! They keep not helping me! They ignor the not getting points and they say it’s just my computer’s fault for the drawing thing (I’m running windows 7!) Just wanted to see if I was alone!
Hi,
I am a SAHM in desperate need of part-time income around $1,000 per month. I thought about trying something like this but I didn’t know if it worked. What have some of you moms done for income? I don’t what to do any party sells.