Answer simple questions online, get paid in cash or, if you prefer, in gift cards. I know many physicians who earn cash rewards totaling hundreds of dollars every year this way, and some who earn thousands with these paid medical surveys.
The pay may not be huge, but it’s never a bad thing to have beer money (or wine money… hard seltzer money?) for answering a simple questionnaire if and when you find yourself with a little time to kill in your day.
The pandemic has negatively impacted the salaries of employees across many industries, including healthcare. It never hurts to have a side hustle, especially one that can be done in your pajamas.
Fill out surveys, get paid, sounds easy enough. I’m not going to tell you it’s too good to be true, though. First, let me describe and address the downsides I’ve heard (and sometimes experienced). Honesty is the best policy, after all!
It may be lucrative to earn extra income from working extra shifts or longer hours, but the payout from these paid medical surveys can be several dollars per minute or hundreds of dollars per hour for a phone interview.
This can happen. Some specialties are more in demand than others. I recommend signing up with several websites to have more frequent survey opportunities. A half dozen of the top survey sites will be listed below.