Worker demographics and earnings on amazon mechanical turk: An exploratory analysis

• Main Authors: HARA, Kotaro, MILLAND, Kristy, HANRAHAN, Benjamin V., CALLISON-BURCH, Chris, ADAMS, Abigail, SAVAGE, Saiph, BIGHAM, Jeffrey P.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: Amazon Mechanical Turk; Crowdsourcing; Hourly wage; Artificial Intelligence and Robotics; Computer and Systems Architecture
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4402; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5405/viewcontent/worker_demographics.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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 wo...