Legitimate survey sites pay $0.10-0.25 per survey. Each survey will take 30-60 minutes to complete and you don't get paid until you reach $30 (or $50 on some sites). This can take up to 6 months. That's because most survey sites don't have more than 50 surveys available at any time. Once you have answered all of them, you sometimes need to wait 3-4 weeks for more surveys to be added to the site. That's why most people give up and never get paid. And a lot of survey sites go out of business before anyone makes the $50 they need to get paid. That happened to me on 2 different sites. I answered loads of surveys then the site was shut down so I never got paid. And couldn't do anything because I hadn't reached $50 anyway. So I had just wasted hundreds of hours of my time for nothing
The ideal thing might be to find a local research company that has paid focus groups you could participate in , in-person, so many of the online surveys are really marketer tools getting you to buy more stuff that don't care about your opinion.
Doing real productive work is most likely to earn you money, could be as simple as writing web site articles, starting at about $3 per 500 word article at broker sites like iWriter.com or textbroker.com.
If you have some marketable design, programming or writing-translation skills you might find short term work at one of the freelance worker marketplaces like Odesk.com and Elance.com
Elance.com alone reports their (mostly skilled) workers earned $285 Million in 2013
https://www.elance.com/q/online-employme...
Odesk.com has about 420 different qualification tests which can help someone with no track record of completed projects to win job bids
https://www.odesk.com/tests
Not really.
Many survey sites are outright scams. The few legit ones pay very little. It takes 6-12 months just to earn $25.
No its a scam, go get a job, take amphetamines and go to a job interview and you got the job
two or three cents per hour, maybe.
