Worker Demographics and Earnings on Amazon Mechanical Turk
Kotaro Hara, ABIGAIL E. ADAMS, Kristy Milland, Saiph Savage, Benjamin V. Hanrahan, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Chris Callison-Burch · 2019
Prior research reported that workers on Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) are underpaid, earning about $2/h. But the prior research did not investigate the difference in wage due to worker characteristics (e.g., country of residence). We present the first data-driven analysis on wage gap on AMT. Using work log data and demographic data collected via online survey, we analyse the gap in wage due to different factors. We show that there is indeed wage gap; for example, workers in the U.S. earn $3.01/h while those in India earn $1.41/h.