Make money online with Appen

Argus Waikhom
3 min readFeb 21, 2021

How much money you can earn?

The amount you can earn is varied based on the type of job you’re doing. Average hourly pay ranges from approximately $9.00 per hour for Researcher to $18.90 per hour for Data Entry Clerk. Most of the job related to the search engine or social media evaluation pays around $3 per hour. Many other tasks are also available which pay you based on your work.

For what kind of people.

People of all ages can apply and work. The good thing about Appen’s job is that you get the flexibility to work on your own time. Many jobs don’t require many skills, you can just work with your everyday experiences.

But don’t take it for granted. Make sure you read the description properly and give your proper attention to the work. Based on your work review, you may get more opportunities to work.

If you don’t take it seriously and make some unacceptable mistakes, you may get banned from the project or the Appen platform.

What kind of job available?

Most of Appen’s jobs are part-time jobs.

A Few Examples of Tasks You’ll See on Appen

There are more jobs available such as Search engine evaluation, Survey, Data collection, Linguistics, etc.

What is Appen?

Here is the definition, given by the Appen itself.

Appen collects and labels images, text, speech, audio, video, and other data used to build and continuously improve the world’s most innovative artificial intelligence systems. Our expertise includes having a global crowd of over 1 million skilled contractors who speak over 180 languages, and the industry’s most advanced AI-assisted data annotation platform. Our high-quality training data gives leaders in technology, automotive, financial services, retail, healthcare, and governments the confidence to deploy world-class AI products. Founded in 1996, Appen has customers and offices globally.

Appen is made possible by our large community of Contributors. We love to celebrate your diversity and let you showcase your interests and skills when completing your jobs!

How can you start?

You can find Appen’s jobs here. Create your Appen account with your email. You also have to provide some of your details like your address, language you know, etc. They may ask you to add your resume, so get ready. Set up your payment. For me, I had to set up with Payoneer.

Appen will give you access to their global site, where you can see all your account details, payment details, and more stuff. Make sure you check your email inbox regularly, they will send you all kinds of details about your account, payment, job suggestions/invites, etc.

To work on a project, you have to pass the project’s entry test. Don’t worry, they are not that hard, and even if you fail on the first try, they usually provide 2/3 retries.

They will evaluate your performance continuously during the project. If your job performance is not as good as they expected, they may give you some assessment (usually similar to the entry test). You have to pass those tests to continue working on that specific project. Otherwise, your project contract will be terminated.

Read instruction properly, for many projects you have to manually enter your work-time to their website. If you don’t know or forget to enter, you won’t get paid for those working hours.

Takeaway

Appen is a good platform if you wanna invest some of your free time to earn some extra income. I wouldn’t try to do it full-time, because sometimes for some projects you have to wait for weeks to get responses from them to work on a project.

Good thing is, they will pay you for your work. Even if you are rejected from the project you’re working on for some reason, they will calculate your working hours and you’ll still get paid.

Thank you for reading. Hope you like it. (●’◡’●)

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