Crowd-Workers: Aggregating Information Across Turkers to Help Them Find Higher Paying Work
Chris Callison-Burch · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing · 2014
The Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform currently fails to provide the most basic piece of information to enable workers to make informed decisions about which tasks to undertake: what is the expected hourly pay? Mechanical Turk advertises a reward amount per assignment, but does not give any indication of how long each assignment will take. We have developed a browser plugin that tracks the length of time it takes to complete a task, and a web service that aggregates the information across many workers. Our web service, crowd-workers.com, allows workers to discovery higher paying work by sorting tasks by estimated hourly rate.