Paid Survey Reviews of the 20 Top Paid Survey Sites, by SIZE

Based on their clients' ratings of them as expressed in their refund rates.

Which Paid Survey Membership Site is Best? Here is what their clients are telling us about which ones made money for Them!

Here's where we line 'em up and let 'em compete!

You can see all of the top 20 paid survey sites here.

Pick any of the top 3 to 5, sign up with them, join their happy clients, make money!

The paid survey review list below shows the largest company (the one with the highest "gravity") at the top. It is sorted down, in order, with the smallest paid survey site at the bottom of the list. To see the sort by RANKING, click here: Analysis & Current Recommendations

Our selection and Current Ranking of our top 5 choices are in the next-to-the-last column on the right.

For details of the ranking methodology visit: Explanations of Rankings

Analysis and Current Rankings, by SIZE:

			Refund Rates in Per Cent (%)
Paid Survey Guide Company:	Cost to Join	Grav- ity	6 mo. Avg	Last 1/2 Mo.	Com- pos- ite Index	Jan. 5th Rank- ing	Click To Visit Site
SurveysPaid - They have a multi-faceted offer of ways to make money. They say, "As of October 5th, there are 1031 surveys needing American participants today! Do you live in United States of America? There are American companies needing survey takers immediately!"	$34.00	183.3	4.4	5.0	4.74	2nd	Visit Site
Make Cash Taking Surveys - A 10 minute video at their website gives details about what distinguishes them and the benefits they offer.	$34.95	146.1	5.9	5.8	5.9	--	Visit Site
eCashOpinions -Major corporations want to find out what you think about current trends, shopping habits, and why you buy certain products... They NEED you! Tons of Online Research Panels are searching for new survey takers every day who are willing to volunteer their time to give their opinion... and be rewarded for it! And eCashOpinions has that inside connection to get you enrolled with ALL of these companies! .	$34.95	119.9	5.7	4.0	4.70	1st	Visit Site
Paid-Surveys-At-Home - Over 400 survey companies on their list, offers free bonuses. This site has been rising steadily in the rankings recently.	$39.95	68.4	5.3	5.2	5.21	4th	Visit Site
Paid Surveys Etc.- Site has a personal feel. Many testimonials, less slick, less hype... perhaps more real? This site has done well and grown over the years. Recently updated. Historically, has a low refund rate, has often been the leader or amongst the top 5.	$34.50	37.0	5.2	4.7	4.92	3rd	Visit Site
Surveys for Checks - They say, "We provide our members with a step-by-step guide on How To Make Money Taking Suveys Online. That way they will be the best qualified candidates for every survey and receive more surveys in the $50-75 range! Would you rather take 15 surveys for $5 each or 1 survey for $75? Our members save time and because of this are able to take more surveys and MAKE MORE MONEY!"	$49.99	29.5	6.2	4.8	5.6	--	Visit Site
Paid Surveys Authority - They have an excellent video presentation, which explains what they offer, at their website.	$47.00	21.7	5.7	6.4	6.2	--	Visit Site
Express Paid Surveys - Slick new website, sample survey. Not much info. FAQ's explain the paid survey business. They have often been amongst the top five, frequently in the top three.	$34.95	16.6	6.0	6.4	6.2	--	Visit Site
Paid Surveys Online - This very active site offers an instant $20.00 survey that you can take upon signing up and offset your cost of joining. Attractive site with a lot to offer.	$34.95	12.1	7.3	7.7	7.5	--	Visit Site
Nextgen Paid Surveys - They say, "Enrollment is Open Worldwide. Once you enroll, you will have instant access to the Members Area where you will find several companies currently looking for people just like you to complete surveys at home. You can simply browse the list and pick the surveys that interest you. It takes only a minute to submit your information and you will be able to complete the survey right away or it will come straight to you through email." *If you leave the first page of the website, they offer you a discount to $37.00! Start to leave a 2nd time and they offer a 3-day trial for $4.95!	$49.95*	11.4	5.9	5.8	5.9	--	Visit Site
Survey Payday - They say, "Huge corporations rely on your input so that they can find out how to better serve their customers. By offering your opinions, you are improving their products and services. Your knowledge and insight is invaluable to these companies, which is why they will pay you handsomely for your information – you are getting paid to help! This is a win-win situation..."	$37.00	10.7	6.6	4.9	5.53	5th	Visit Site
Paid Surveys and More -They say, "Most multi-million-dollar-a-year corporations dont't know anything about their consumers! So they will pay 'regular' people like you and me to discover what people really think." They also offer 3 money-making bonuses.	$34.00	8.3	8.2	8.4	8.3	--	Visit Site
Maximum Paid Surveys - 500+ paid online survey companies, 200+ mystery shopping companies. They now say they have 762 companies that want to pay for your opinion.	$39.95	8.3	8.1	8.3	8.3	--	Visit Site
Paid Survey Cash Club - They have an excellent video presentation at their website, which explains what they offer.	$34.95	7.9	7.3	7.3	7.3	--	Visit Site
Surveys for Income-Since 2006, over 10,000 people have used the Surveys4Income system to make money from home. We have a "Survey 101" area that will show you everything you need to know. Many of our highest paid members are showing others how to complete surveys faster, to bring in more money per month. Plus $196 in Great Bonuses!	$34.95	7.1	6.4	6.9	6.7	--	Visit Site
Top Paying Surveys- New site, growing fast. They say, "Who Wants to Make Up To $65 For Every 10 Minutes Of Spare Time They Have? If You Have an Internet Connection, Some Spare Time and an Opinion - See Why Fortune 500 Companies Need You And Why They Are Prepared to Pay You Top Dollar…Even During the Recession!" -Audrey Casey - Founder of Top-Paying-Surveys and Stay at Home Mom	$39.95	5.2	8.4	8.2	8.3	--	Visit Site
International Incomes - New rising star! International Incomes (I.I.) is a service that is available to all countries of the world. This is why we call ourselves International Incomes. Only I.I. Can Get You Enrolled With The Top, Highest Paying Survey Companies Out There!	$29.95	5.1	6.1	5.7	5.9	--	Visit Site
Cash Surveys Only -Get our catalog of survey companies that pay cash. At Cash Surveys Only we don't list just any survey company out there. We reveal to our members only hard to find, tested and approved real survey companies that pay cash.	$29.95	5.0	7.5	7.8	7.7	--	Visit Site
Cash Surveys - They say,"Let me introduce you to the most exciting and very real home based money making opportunity on the Internet. In one sentence this is about getting involved in sharing your opinion and benefiting from a...TRILLION dollar per year US marketing budget. This means that there are new survey opportunities all the time from various companies."	$39.50	5.0	7.1	7.3	7.2	--	Visit Site
Quick Paid Surveys - Step by step startup instructions, 490 companies in their database, updated weekly. They say they have a clean database, no trash companies. They offer a premium package	$67.00	4.4	8.4	8.7	8.6	--	Visit Site

Paid Survey Sites for Spanish-speaking People in the U.S. and Canada.

(These sites have lists of survey makers that deal with surveys directed at the 41 million people in the U.S. who speak Spanish. (The U.S. now has the 3rd largest Spanish-speaking population in the world!) If you speak Spanish and live in the U.S. or Canada you should check these out!]

			Refund Rates in Per Cent (%)
Paid Survey Guide Company:	Cost to Join	Grav- ity	6 mo. Avg	Last 1/2 Mo.	Com- pos- ite Index	Jan. 5th Rank- ing	Click To Visit Site
Encuestas Remuneradas (Paid Surveys) - They say/Ellos dicen: "Gane Dinero Respondiendo Encuestas Por Internet. Nuevo Sitio De Encuestas En Español. Sabías Que Podrías Estar Ganando Muchísimo Dinero Desde Tu Casa Por Tan Solo Dar Tu Opinión Completando Simples Cuestionarios De Selección Múltiple?"	$34.95	46.9	5.3	5.5	5.40	HM	Visit Site
Encuestas Por Dinero (Surveys for Money)- They say/Ellos dicen: "Miles de personas residentes en Estados unidos estamos de acuerdo en que una de las maneras más sencilla y confiable de generar ingresos desde nuestros hogares es contestando encuestas relacionadas con los productos y servicios que personas como Tu y Yo...."	$29.95	14.4	6.0	6.2	6.16	HM	Visit Site
Encuestas Pagadas (Paid Surveys)- They say/Ellos dicen: "Muchas de las grandes compañías del mundo están invirtiendo más de 30 billones de dólares anualmente realizando estudios de mercado. Y estas compañías estan obteniendo mejores resultados con las encuestas a travéz de Internet, y pagan por tener nuestra opinión por medio de Internet y pagan muy bien."	$37.00	4.3	6.3	6.2	6.22	HM	Visit Site

[If anyone wants a translation, please let me know. But the sites are in Spanish, the surveys are in Spanish, and I figured that if you can't read what they say in Spanish here then you probably would not be interested anyway ;-)

Y si hablas español puedes hace "click" en la parte que dice "Visit Site" (Visitar el sitio web) y puede discubrir exactamente lo que dicen. :-) ]

"Penalty Box"

In Ice Hockey, when players break the rules and mis-behave the officials take them out of the game and put them in the penalty box. The game then goes on without their participation. They can only watch and wait until it is O.K to come out of the penalty box and get back in the game.

Some paid survey sites we have been following now have Composite Refund Indexes of over 15%! That's such a bad paid survey review that it's a bit ridiculous! Another, Paid Survey Program, has not filed their reports with ClickBank so we cannot calculate their refund rate. (Any site that hides their refund data is most likely NOT proud of it! We equate "Unknown" with "High" and don't allow any such to remain on the active list.)

So we built the "penalty box" below and put them into it, "out of play" and away from the rest, until they get their acts together. ;-)

*PENALTY BOX*			Refund Rates in Per Cent (%)
Paid Survey Guide Company:	Cost to Join	Grav- ity	6 mo. Avg	Last 2 wks	Com- pos- ite Index	Jan. 5th Rank- ing	Click To Visit Site
Survey Scout - This active site is very highly rated by several rating agencies. Still, the refund numbers show that 1 out of every 5-9 clients demands a refund! We do not recommend this site at this time.	$34.95	14.5	10.0	9.6	9.8	--	Visit Site
GreatNetMoney -Advocates their Great NET Money Program, where you Get PAID for taking surveys. They say they help common people earn an uncommon income from all around the planet.	$34.95	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	--	Visit Site
Paid Survey Pro - Also has an instant $20.00 survey that you can take upon signing up and offset your cost of joining.	$34.95	0.0	n/a	n/a	n/a	--	Visit Site

For an explanation of the factors used in classifying our top 20 and in picking the top 5, Click Here >> Paid Survey Site Classification Factors Explained

Commentary:

At one time, size was a major factor in choosing good paid survey sites. Bigger was better. Then for several months the refund rates of many larger sites went up and stayed up. Big paid survey sites were starting to look like dinosaurs, big, but slow to adapt to new conditions! Many of the smaller, innovative sites got much better marks from their clients, as expressed in their refund rates, and rose in our rankings.

But recently the larger sites have made a comeback, rising to the top in results according to their clients and as expressed in their refund rates.

Some sites have "gone private", using ClickBank only for a collection agent, which makes their full refund rate figures unavailable to the public (you and I!). Instead of making the changes needed to provide more client satisfaction, they took steps to hide the size of their failures to please their clients! We no longer list any sites that have gone this route.

We also brought some of the smaller paid survey sites that we have been tracking, into the top 20 list. They are smaller but some have very good refund rate numbers. We prefer a small paid survey site with a 5% refund rate to a large site with a refund rate of over 8%!!

Recent Changes:

Average Refund Rates in the Past
Date	Avg.
Jan. 5, '12	6.60%
Oct. 5. '11	6.82%
July 5. '11	6.71%
Apr. 5. '11	7.04%
Jan. 5, '11	6.97%
Aug. 5, '10	7.03%
Jun. 5, '10	6.94%
Apr. 5, '10	7.05%
Feb. 5, '10	7.07%
Dec. 5, '09	6.95%
Oct. 5, '09	7.08%
Aug. 5, '09	7.08%
June 5, '09	7.04%
May 5, '09	7.15%
Apr 5, '09	6.74%
Mar 5, '09	7.10%
Feb 5, '09	7.19%
Jan 5, '09	7.01%
Dec 5,'08	7.22%
Nov. 21	7.39%
Nov. 5	7.32%
Oct. 21	7.03%
Oct. 5	7.02%
Sept. 21	7.21%
Sept. 5	7.35%
Aug. 21	7.92%
Aug. 5	7.49%
July 21	7.15%
July 5	7.36%
June 21	8.54%
June 5	7.49%
May 21	8.01%
May 5	7.18%
April 21	6.84%
April 5	6.68%
March 21	6.51%
March 5	6.68%
Feb 21	6.49%
Feb 5	6.85%
Jan 21	8.64%
Jan 5,'08	8.26%
Dec 21	8.64%
Dec 5	9.42%
Nov 21	8.13%
Nov 5	8.66%
Oct 21	8.30%
Oct 5	9.92%
Sept 21	9.92%
Sept 5	10.16%
Aug 21	9.82%
Aug 5	8.28%
July 21	8.84%
July 5	8.55%
Jun 21	8.87%
Jun 5,'07	7.34%

There is frequent turnover in which websites make up our top 20. This cycle saw the addition of 4 sites: Paid Survey Cash Club, MakeCashTakingSurveys, Paid Survey Authority site and Nextgen Paid Surveys. These were brought in to replace Highest Pay Surveys, Earn Online Taking Surveys, Easy Surveys Cash and Surveyhawk, which had gravities that dropped below our minimums.

We also report on 3 Spanish sites: Encuestas Por Dinero (Surveys for Money), Encuestas Remuneradas (Paid Surveys) and Enquestas Pagadas (Surveys that are Paid for). These sites are set-up for Spanish-speaking people who live in the U.S. or Canada. They deal with surveys being made of/for the 41 million-persons in the U.S. whose primary language is Spanish or who speak Spanish as a second language.

They all three have good rankings, but were not included in or compared directly with their counterpart sites in English. Instead, we have established a separate category for them, as yet unranked, since there are only three in that category.

Refund rates are down to a record low a bit for this last half-month period. The average refund rate for the latest half-month period for our top 20 paid survey sites was 6.60%.

We show the past average refund rates in a table by date, which you can see on the right-hand side of this text.

ClickBank earlier made some changes in the way it reports numbers which may cause some distortion in the absolute values this half month. It will not affect the relative positions of the sites evaluated.

When we have sites whose numbers are in transition from changes in prices or otherwise off-scale and not reliable, we indicate this by "n/a" (Not Available right now).

Note that none of our picks had either a 2 week or a Composite Index refund rate higher than 7.14% (1 client in 14). All things being equal we felt that the refund rate was the single most important measure of client satisfaction and the best measure of the quality of their service. We now tend to favor larger companies over smaller ones, based on the market's choice and the greater stability that larger companies provide.

We now print the refund rates of all with refund rates of 10% or higher, of our top 20 in Red above. This is to highlight their low desirability status and urge caution with these. Note that we have added a red "X" to the left of each of these, to point out that these rank at the bottom of the top 20 and their refund rates have passed our "red line" danger mark. At this time we would NOT recommend them.

The overall average refund rate this month is 6.60%.

We now update our analyses on the 5th day of the first month in each calendar quarter, at which time we review and revise our picks. Paid survey companies change and market conditions change. Our selection of recommended companies is dynamic and will change as new information comes in. We always pick the current best choices for you!

We now have sixty-one months of history posted on this website, with the numbers and the picks from December 5, 2006 all the way up to today. We invite you to look at the past numbers in Past Rankings for comparisons.

In general, you probably won't go wrong with any of the companies listed, especially those with refund rates below the average. For the 20 companies listed above the current refund average is 6.60% (means that on average, for the top 20 companies shown here, approximately 1 new member in every 15.1 asked for a refund for one reason or another). For the top five, only 1 in 17.92 to 1 in 21.28 asked for a refund!

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