Boost your Income with Surveys from Prolific Academic

Anyone who’s ever tried to make money online will probably have tried making money with surveys at some point. Surveys can be a great way to build up an extra income online, but let’s face it, lots of survey sites are slow burners. It can take a really long time to earn any kind of decent cash and even longer to build up to the minimum cashout level. In most cases, I’d say that survey sites are something to avoid, unless you enjoy answering surveys and aren’t looking to make a decent amount of money from them. However, Prolific Academic surveys are different. Prolific Academic actually pay really well and it doesn’t take long at all to build your pot of cash.

What is Prolific Academic?

Prolific Academic is a survey site used by researchers to carry out studies to aid their research. Many researchers are based in universities throughout the world. This leads to some really interesting and varied studies which can actually be really interesting to be involved with. One of the best things about Prolific Assistant in comparison to other survey sites is that you will never be screened out of a survey part way through completing it. This is one of my absolute pet hates and makes many of the survey sites a complete waste of time. With Prolific Academic, you are pre-screened before being asked to take part. When you see an available study, you will see how much you will be paid, how long it should take to complete and how many spaces are still available. All of their studies will pay you the equivalent of at least £5 per hour which is far higher than the other survey sites around at the moment.

High Paying Surveys

Prolific Academic do pay really well compared to many of the other survey sites out there. If you only sign up to one survey site then this has to be the one you go for.

The screenshots below show a couple of my recent payouts from just two surveys. These surveys both took less than 15 minutes each to complete, so you can see that it works out a really decent hourly rate. Many other survey sites would only pay pennies for similar studies.

Prolific Academic Earnings

 

 

Prolific Academic Earnings

These are just two of the surveys I’ve completed recently. It generally doesn’t take me too long at all to cash out £20 on a fairly regular basis.

How does Prolific Academic work?

Prolific Academic is the world’s largest crowdsourcing community of people who love science. Researchers post studies and recruit the right participants fast. Participants earn rewards while helping to advance human knowledge. Researchers post their studies and specify their budget. Each study has a limited number of spaces which means they go fast! Once the spaces are full, the survey is no longer available and you’ve missed the boat. Once you’ve completed a study, the researcher will need to approve it before the fee is released to your account. This usually happens pretty quickly, some have been approved within minutes for me.

Boost your chances to grab studies with Prolific Academic

With the surveys filling up so quickly, you need to do all you can to maximise your chances of getting in there.

Make sure you’ve answered all of the pre-screening questions in your “About You” section. This ensures that you’re selected for studies that you’re eligible to complete. Sometimes you’ll receive an email letting you know you qualify for a new survey on Prolific Academic, however more often than not you’ll need to log in daily to check.

With everything else that goes on in my life, I’ll be the first to admit that I regularly forget to open up Prolific Academic and log in. The best thing I’ve done that’s made a real difference to the volume of studies I manage to get is to download the Chrome Extension. It’s called Prolific Assistant and is available to download free from Chrome Extensions. I’m not sure if there are alternatives for other browsers, but it’s worth a look!

Prolific Assistant

 

The chrome extension runs constantly in the background and plays an announcement if there is a study available. You’ll get a pop-up on your screen as well as a little voice telling you there’s a prolific study available. The pop-up will tell you how long the study is likely to take as well as how much you’ll be paid.

Update – I have recently had some issues with the Prolific Assistant extension and found it doesn’t always notify me when there’s a new study. If you’re having issues then it’s worth just keeping the studies page open. This page will automatically update when there’s a new study available and display the number of studies on the tab, so you can easily see when there’s a study ready for you.

Read all of the questions properly. I’m ashamed to say that I skim-read one and it was one of those trick ones trying to catch you out, it caught me! Since then, I’ve been sure to read the questions carefully before answering. Many of the studies do have at least one “trick” question to make sure that you are reading and answering properly, so make sure you do give the studies your full attention or you may not get paid.

Who can sign up to Prolific Academic?

Previously, Prolific Academic was available across the globe, but they’ve recently limited their sign ups to the following countries: Users from the following (OECD) countries should be able to participate: AT, AU, BE, CA, CH, CL, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HU, IE, IL, IS, IT, JP, KR, LU, LV, MX, NL, NO, NZ, PL, PT, SE, SI, and US. It’s worth noting that you can only access studies whilst you’re in the country you signed up in. So you cannot access studies whilst you’re on holiday abroad.

Cashing Out with Prolific Academic

You can cash out as soon as you hit £5, however you will pay fees. If you wait until you hit £20, you can cash out without paying any fees via the Circle app which is similar to PayPal.

Boost your Income with Surveys from Prolific Academic