UK · published rates · checked this month
The minimum Prolific makes every researcher pay participants, on every study it hosts.
Platform rule, not an average and not a promise.Prolific — payment modelChecked 7 Sept 2026
Most sites in this market tell you what you might make. We do the opposite: we show you what the big platforms already publish, with links and dates, and we say nothing about our own pay — because UK advertising rules forbid a new scheme from forecasting it. Then you decide.
Nothing to pay at any step · Self-employed, task by task · Stop whenever you like
- No fees, ever
- UK residents, 18+
- A human replies
- Pay and time written down before you accept
£9/ hr
What Prolific recommends researchers pay
A recommendation, above the £6 floor.
Prolific help centre · 7 Sept 2026$95avg
Respondent's own cited average incentive per study
Interviews, mostly US; 1–5% of applications accepted.
2026 platform comparison · 7 Sept 2026$4–10/ test
UserTesting payout for a 5–20 minute recorded test
Live interviews pay $30–60; many screeners reject.
2026 independent review · 7 Sept 2026£1,000/ yr
UK trading allowance: side income you can keep tax-free
Gross, before costs. The talked-about £3,000 is not law yet.
GOV.UK · 7 Sept 2026
Who pays what
Who pays what — from the platforms' own pages
Every row links to where the figure comes from and shows the day we last checked it. Bars compare hourly ranges in the platform's own currency; we do not convert.
Prolific
Easy to joinOnline research studies, 5–45 minutes, mostly academic
£6/hr floor · £9/hr recommended
£6–9 per hourA waitlist can apply. UK and US participants see the most studies.
Prolific — payment modelChecked 7 Sept 2026
UserTesting
Screeners reject manyRecorded website and app tests, screen plus voice
$4–$10 per 5–20 min test · $30–$60 live
$10–30 per hourEffective hourly rate depends on how many screeners you pass.
2026 independent reviewChecked 7 Sept 2026
Respondent
1–5% acceptedInterviews with researchers over video, 30–60 minutes
$50–$400 per study · avg $95 cited
$50–100 per hourHighest pay, lowest odds. Mostly US studies.
2026 platform comparisonChecked 7 Sept 2026
Swagbucks · Survey Junkie
Easy, low payShort marketing surveys and offers
$1.50–$6 per hour in independent tests
$1.5–6 per hourAlways available, but most of your time goes to screening out.
EarnifyHub 90-day test, 2026Checked 7 Sept 2026
- Fieldnote publishes no pay figure of its own. UK CAP Code rule 20.4 says a new home-working scheme must not forecast earnings — and we would rather show you the market than guess.CAP Code, section 20
| Platform | What you do | Published pay | Per hour (platform currency) | Getting in | Source · checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prolific | Online research studies, 5–45 minutes, mostly academicA waitlist can apply. UK and US participants see the most studies. | £6/hr floor · £9/hr recommended | £6–9 | Easy to join | Prolific — payment modelChecked 7 Sept 2026 |
| UserTesting | Recorded website and app tests, screen plus voiceEffective hourly rate depends on how many screeners you pass. | $4–$10 per 5–20 min test · $30–$60 live | $10–30 | Screeners reject many | 2026 independent reviewChecked 7 Sept 2026 |
| Respondent | Interviews with researchers over video, 30–60 minutesHighest pay, lowest odds. Mostly US studies. | $50–$400 per study · avg $95 cited | $50–100 | 1–5% accepted | 2026 platform comparisonChecked 7 Sept 2026 |
| Swagbucks · Survey Junkie | Short marketing surveys and offersAlways available, but most of your time goes to screening out. | $1.50–$6 per hour in independent tests | $1.5–6 | Easy, low pay | EarnifyHub 90-day test, 2026Checked 7 Sept 2026 |
| Fieldnote | publishes no pay figure of its own. UK CAP Code rule 20.4 says a new home-working scheme must not forecast earnings — and we would rather show you the market than guess.CAP Code, section 20 | ||||
Figures are quoted from each platform's own help pages or from independent 2026 reviews, as linked. They describe those platforms, not Fieldnote. Bars are capped at 100% of the scale; ranges are before any platform fees or currency conversion.
Week planner
Your hours, their published rates. Nothing else.
Pick how many hours a week you could realistically give. We multiply by Prolific's published floor and recommended rate — because those are the only two per-hour numbers in this market that a platform enforces in writing.
What the market publishes, times your hours
Two lines: the enforced floor and the recommended rate. Both are Prolific's numbers, not ours.
Arithmetic on published rates. Not a forecast of what you would make with Fieldnote or with any platform.
Prolific's minimum of £6 per hour, required on every study · Prolific — payment model
Prolific's recommended £9 per hour · Prolific — how much should I pay
Real weeks are lumpier than this: some days have no studies, some screeners reject you, some tasks pay more. Fieldnote does not publish its own figure — see the rate board for why.
Scam check
Sixty seconds to tell a real offer from a trap
Eight yes-or-no signals, taken from what the ASA, the FTC and Google actually rule against. Answer for any offer you have been sent — including ours. Then compare with how we score ourselves.
Offer check
Answer about the offer in front of you. Each question maps to a rule someone has been punished for breaking.
Does it ask you to pay anything — a fee, a starter kit, 'training', a deposit?
Genuine research platforms never charge participants.
Does it quote a sum you will make — 'up to' a figure, a daily amount, a 'guaranteed' income?
The ASA has ruled unsupported 'up to' daily claims misleading; the FTC treats 'up to' as 'likely'.
Can you find a company name and a postal address on the site?
Look in the footer or a Legal page. A blank is a warning; an invented one is worse.
Is pay made by a normal method — bank transfer or PayPal — not gift cards or crypto?
Gift cards and crypto are the two payment methods scammers prefer, because they cannot be reversed.
Does it say plainly that you are self-employed and can stop at any time?
UK rules require commission-style or self-employed status to be made clear.
Is there a privacy policy that says what data they collect and why?
Not a link that goes nowhere — an actual page.
Does it pressure you — countdowns, 'only a few places left', reply within the hour?
Real research has deadlines; it does not have fake scarcity.
Did they ask for ID documents, bank logins or card details before you agreed to anything?
ID may be needed later for some tasks. Bank logins are never needed.
Your result
Answer the eight questions
Your lamps fill in as you go. Green means the answer matches what honest platforms do.
How Fieldnote answers the same eight
8 / 8Check every line against this site. If we fail one, tell us and we will fix it or explain it.
- 1. Nothing to pay at any step — not now, not later, not for 'training'.
- 2. We publish other platforms' rates with sources. We quote none of our own.
- 3. Company details live on the Legal page. Where a field says 'to be completed', we show the gap rather than invent a name.
- 4. Bank transfer or PayPal after a task is approved. Never gift cards, never crypto.
- 5. Self-employed, task by task, stop whenever you like — spelled out on the Tax & status page.
- 6. Privacy policy linked in the footer of every page, with what we collect and why.
- 7. No countdowns, no counters, no 'last places'. Anywhere.
- 8. We ask for ID only after you accept a task that needs it. We never ask for bank logins or card details.
What happens after you click
Four steps. No fees, no forms to pay for, no surprises.
Step 1 : You message us
One line on WhatsApp is enough. A person — not a bot — replies within one working day.
Step 2 : A short profile chat
Your device, the hours you can give, your region. UK residents only, 18 and over.
Step 3 : A written task offer
Time needed, pay, and what you need — in writing, before you accept. Say no to any task, any time.
Step 4 : Paid after approval
Bank transfer or PayPal once a task is checked and approved. Then you decide about the next one.
Fieldnote never asks for money. If anyone claiming to be us asks you to pay, close the chat and run the offer through our scam check.
The guides
Everything a first-timer asks, answered before you apply.
Who pays what
Published rates from the big platforms, with sources and check dates. No estimates.
ReadIs this offer a scam?
Eight signals from real rulings. Score any offer — and see how we score ourselves.
ReadTax and your status
The trading allowance, the reporting-threshold myth, and what 'self-employed' means here.
ReadThe words they use
Screener, incentive, attention check, panel — decoded in plain English.
Read
What we will not say
Six sentences you will find on other sites, and the rule that stops us writing them.
This is not modesty. Each one has been ruled misleading, banned by Google's ad policy, or both. Treating the rules as part of the product is the whole idea of this site.
“Earn up to £X a day from your sofa”
Readers hear 'up to' as 'likely'. The ASA ruled a home-working site's daily 'up to' claim misleading when no user had reached it; a US regulator settled an 'up to $18 an hour' case for millions on the same reasoning.
CAP Code 3.1, 3.7, 20.4“Guaranteed income every month”
Nobody can guarantee how many studies researchers will post. Google requires a clear refund policy behind any guarantee — we would rather make no guarantee than a hollow one.
Google Ads — Unreliable claims“Only 12 places left — apply in the next 10 minutes”
Invented scarcity is a misrepresentation. There is no cap on people who can message us, so there is no countdown.
Google Ads — Misrepresentation“Sarah made £2,400 last month”
A big-earner story is treated as a promise about you unless typical results are shown just as clearly. We have no typical-results data we could stand behind, so we publish no money testimonials at all.
FTC business guidance on earnings claims“Work-from-home job with a monthly salary”
This is self-employed, task-by-task work. UK rules say that status — and anything commission-like — must be made clear, and a 2026 ruling punished an ad that blurred it.
CAP Code 20.2“No experience, no effort, instant cash”
Google bars promises of large returns for minimal effort. And it is untrue: failing attention checks is the main reason participants are rejected. Tasks need care.
Google Ads — money-making claims
What people say about the process
I asked three awkward questions on WhatsApp before I did anything. They answered all three in writing. That was the moment I relaxed.
The first task came with the time and the pay written at the top. I said no to the second one and nothing happened — that told me more than any promise.
The rate board sent me to Prolific first. I still came back, because these people were the ones who told me the truth about the others.
Quotes describe the process and are shared with permission; first names only. Nobody's pay is quoted, because nobody's pay predicts yours.
FAQ
Questions people ask before they message
Short answers. If yours is not here, ask it on WhatsApp — a person will answer.
All questionsIs Fieldnote legitimate?
Fieldnote connects UK residents with remote research and testing tasks and never charges participants. Run us through the Offer Check on this site — we answer the same eight questions in public — and check the Legal page. If anything is missing there, we say so rather than invent it.
How much will I make?
We do not say, on purpose. UK advertising rules (CAP Code 20.4) forbid a new home-working scheme from forecasting earnings, and we think that rule is right. What we can do is show you what other platforms publish, with sources — that is the rate board.
Why WhatsApp?
Because it is the fastest way to talk to a human without creating an account. You write first; we never message anyone who has not messaged us. Email works too if you prefer.
Do I need experience?
No. You need a phone or laptop, a UK address, to be 18 or over, and to read questions carefully — failing attention checks is the main reason anyone is rejected.
When and how am I paid?
After a task is checked and approved, by bank transfer or PayPal. The pay for each task is written in the offer before you accept it. We never pay in gift cards or crypto.
Is this a job?
No. You are self-employed and take tasks one at a time. There is no salary, no minimum hours and no notice period. You can stop at any point.
Seen the market. Now ask us anything.
One message opens a chat with a person. Nothing to pay, no account to create, and you can leave at 'hello'.
Opens WhatsApp Web with the team — nothing to pay, no commitment.
The next seven days
- Day 1 — you message, a person replies within one working day and asks about your device, hours and region.
- Days 2–5 — your first written task offer, with time and pay at the top. Accept it, or don't.
- Day 7 — if you did a task and it was approved, you have been paid by bank transfer or PayPal. Then you decide about the next one.
Pay depends on tasks that are completed and approved. No minimum income is promised. For adults (18+) resident in the UK. Nothing to pay, ever.