We (many polar bears in our arctic department) need some data; We want our undergraduate slaves to go into the website https://www.yellowpages.com.au/ and filter all the electricians and plumbers in the greater Sydney area which is roughly 7500 business and we want them to collect and enter (on a excel sheet) business address, website, phone info from the business website (not from yellowpage, so they need to look at the website). I have no idea how much I should pay to my slaves. Clicking a website, looking at the website, getting the required info, copying pasting looks like more than a so-missed zoltar job but then even a 10 cents per info will cost me $750. 5 cents? 2 cents? tree fiddy cents?
Assuming this is a legitimate question and an Economics PhD student can't calculate $/hr. Pay minimum wage. Do a few tasks and time yourself, take the average time per task, take the hourly minimum wage and multiply it by the fraction of an hour it takes to do the task on average.
not economics but pursuing a PhD. Yeah, the things you said is correct in an ideal world but I am super inefficient to get an idea how much it will take so if I pay by min wage I would spend all of my money; this is why I decided to pay per task/info.
We agreed with 8 cents per task which is slightly better than a 10 cents per minute (rule?). Am I a bad requester? What is my pay TO? are my students going to hate me?
It is out of Mturk since I do not know how to use the requester site and I would like to know the student in person who does the job. But I think 8 cents is fair, they need to click a website then contact info, then copy paste the address, phone, email, PROFIT.
