CrowdControl Survey Finds Performing Crowdsourced Tasks is a Second Job for Most Workers

CrowdControl has released results from a recent survey that profiled Amazon Mechanical Turk workers. The study found that most of the respondents have day jobs and that participating in crowdsourcing projects is a way for them to complement their primary source of income.

According to the survey, almost 75 percent of the Mechanical Turk crowd workers have other jobs besides what they do on the crowdsourcing platform. The study also found that more than 21 percent of those workers do their crowdsourcing tasks while at their day jobs, though the vast majority (over 76 percent) wait to complete their supplemental tasks at home during off-peak hours.

The profiling of the workers also shows that most of them have college degrees (61 percent) and that more than 36 percent have a salary of over $50,000 annually.  The survey shows that taking on extra jobs via crowdsourcing projects is a growing trend among professionals; and almost 25 percent of the respondents stated that their Amazon Mechanical Turk job was responsible for more than 10 percent of their annual income.

Finally, the study found that the crowd is comprised mostly of women. According to the survey, more than 56 percent of the workers are female and almost half of them are between the ages of 26 and 35.

This survey is the first performed by CrowdControl. Headquartered in Seattle, the company expects to conduct it on a quarterly basis.