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Worker Demographics and Earnings on Amazon Mechanical Turk

Kotaro Hara, Abigail Adams, Kristy Milland, Saiph Savage, Benjamin V. Hanrahan, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Chris Callison-Burch
2019 Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '19  

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1 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 on average.
doi:10.1145/3290607.3312970 dblp:conf/chi/HaraAMSHBC19 fatcat:ubui6do6dfhx3diwf5z227p2xy
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Kotaro Hara, Abigail Adams, Kristy Milland, Saiph Savage, Benjamin V. Hanrahan, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Chris Callison-Burch. "Worker Demographics and Earnings on Amazon Mechanical Turk." Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '19 (2019)