Abstract

The Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform currently fails to provide the most basic piece of information to enable work-ers to make informed decisions about which tasks to under-take: what is the expected hourly pay? Mechanical Turk ad-vertises a reward amount per assignment, but does not give any indication of how long each assignment will take. We have developed a browser plugin that tracks the length of time it takes to complete a task, and a web service that aggregates the information across many workers. Crowd-Workers. com allows workers to discovery higher paying work by sort-ing tasks by estimated hourly rate. Crowdsourcing has been enabled by online labor markets