Funny enough, this was my second day on mturk... Gallery Study Hour long photo management study $7.00 Paid It was fun, too.
I received $13 and no bonus from CastingWords for an Expedited transcript. Love those kinds, but they are far and few between.
I saw a hit for $193 dollars, obviously outside my reach but I wonder how long those would take... eight hours or more?
I've done a $50 writing HIT. Very technical and in-depth, that one, with not a whole lot of information to go on. You saw a HIT for $193? What was it called? If it was a particularly long transcript, I could see that being real, but a lot of the super-high-dollar stuff is just scams...
Some of these numbers are ridiculous, the only ones I've seen that even come close are the $60 credit card sign-up spammers. The most I've made total, including the reward and bonus, is something like $10. If I remember correctly it was a $4 hit and I got a $6 bonus.
Phillip Isola once had a HIT up where all you had to do was click on a picture if you remembered it, and you could eventually make $45 in a few hours. BRAIN BREAKING, but he paid.