Today, I made in the three figures per hour-- onsite. Travel and reporting pulled down the average. This is okay. Like mert, I do not care about the average as much as I have an agenda. On payday, I can finish paying for contact lenses which cost about a dollar a day after insurance pays. Today was useful.



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@89lulalula89 wrote:

@panama18 wrote:

The problem with this subject is that there is room for all kinds of mental gymnastics and creative accounting. You can count the time you spend looking for shops, or not. You can count drive time, or not. The time you spend screwing around cropping and renaming photos. Report time. Time spent reading guidelines. I count all of that and don't know why anyone wouldn't. That said, I don't doubt what anybody says they make shopping and it is understood that people aren't saying they make that 40 hours a week. I've made as much as $150/hr, but for only 1 hour, and those hours are few and far between. Overall, I don't average anywhere near some of these numbers, but If you can average $20/hr, or $40, or $60, congrats. One way or another we are all in it for the money, even lifestyle shoppers. God bless us, every one.

Which jobs require cropping and renaming photos? In the 21 years that I've been in this business I've never needed to do that. Just curious really.

And I wanted to add that I spend very little time looking for work. I am often contacted via text, email or phone for jobs from schedulers. Other than that I spend about 15 minutes each day looking at about 5 job boards. Once per week I do a more thorough search to make sure there is not something big I'm missing. And about once every three months I check every job board I am signed up with (and there are a lot!) to double check that there is not a change in a company that I never/rarely work with (could be out of business or they have a new contract with a company nearby).

I have to crop many of my images, as they will not load upright into various reports. I spend time looking for work in the sense that mapping routes with multiple companies takes time.

@Shop-et-al wrote:

Today, I made in the three figures per hour-- onsite. Travel and reporting pulled down the average. This is okay. Like mert, I do not care about the average as much as I have an agenda. On payday, I can finish paying for contact lenses which cost about a dollar a day after insurance pays. Today was useful.

Three figures per hour? Doing what? I would like one gig where I can make that kind of money. Again, I know I must be doing something wrong. What can I do to make the $50-$100 per hour people are averaging. I can see that happening maybe a couple of good days during the year. Sure, I've opened an account for a $100 before, or done a couple of 20 minute $50 audit/inspection shops, but those are rare. I have done the investment shops that pay $100-$150, but I got to sit there an hour an then do the stupid narratives on the evaluation. That takes time, more time than I feel like, so I don't do them anymore.

So, give me a clue. You people making that $83,000 to $200,000 per year mystery shopping. If you are making that $40 t0 $100 per hour average, that would be your yearly income. What are you doing that I am not?
Thank you.

@1forum1 wrote:

@Shop-et-al wrote:

Today, I made in the three figures per hour-- onsite. Travel and reporting pulled down the average. This is okay. Like mert, I do not care about the average as much as I have an agenda. On payday, I can finish paying for contact lenses which cost about a dollar a day after insurance pays. Today was useful.

Three figures per hour? Doing what? I would like one gig where I can make that kind of money. Again, I know I must be doing something wrong. What can I do to make the $50-$100 per hour people are averaging. I can see that happening maybe a couple of good days during the year. Sure, I've opened an account for a $100 before, or done a couple of 20 minute $50 audit/inspection shops, but those are rare. I have done the investment shops that pay $100-$150, but I got to sit there an hour an then do the stupid narratives on the evaluation. That takes time, more time than I feel like, so I don't do them anymore.

So, give me a clue. You people making that $83,000 to $200,000 per year mystery shopping. If you are making that $40 t0 $100 per hour average, that would be your yearly income. What are you doing that I am not?
Thank you.

I do a bar job that takes between 90 seconds and four minutes to perform. I get anywhere from $15-$25 to do that one shop.

SEA might be traveling an hour to get to her "job". Hence, it's not really a true hourly rate.

The most I usually made a year when I shopped full-time was around $50,000 a year. I make less than half of that now doing mystery shopping, but I make a good income from my full-time employment. It's a good side hustle for me now. There might be a couple of shoppers who can pull $100,000 a year doing full-time shopping. I have no interest in that lifestyle though.

1. I am not one of the "You people making that $83,000 to $200,000 per year mystery shopping." I am a person who occasionally gets lucky and, despite an odd schedule, makes good money on some of my work days. Most of the time, I complete one or a few shops at a time due to time and energy constraints. (I work shortly after midnight every day and I have to sleep!)

2. You are not necessarily doing anything wrong.

3. Sometimes, the bonuses and the efficiencies converge upon your good fortune. I hope that this will happen for you.

@1forum1 wrote:

@Shop-et-al wrote:

Today, I made in the three figures per hour-- onsite. Travel and reporting pulled down the average. This is okay. Like mert, I do not care about the average as much as I have an agenda. On payday, I can finish paying for contact lenses which cost about a dollar a day after insurance pays. Today was useful.

Three figures per hour? Doing what? I would like one gig where I can make that kind of money. Again, I know I must be doing something wrong. What can I do to make the $50-$100 per hour people are averaging. I can see that happening maybe a couple of good days during the year. Sure, I've opened an account for a $100 before, or done a couple of 20 minute $50 audit/inspection shops, but those are rare. I have done the investment shops that pay $100-$150, but I got to sit there an hour an then do the stupid narratives on the evaluation. That takes time, more time than I feel like, so I don't do them anymore.

So, give me a clue. You people making that $83,000 to $200,000 per year mystery shopping. If you are making that $40 t0 $100 per hour average, that would be your yearly income. What are you doing that I am not?
Thank you.

It would be interesting if we actually had some way of anonymously posting our actual yearly totals, cash, not reimbursements. Since we are in tax time, we have the information. This question about pay (hourly/yearly) seems to be a frequent post on the forum.

I would be surprised if even some of the smaller MSCs themselves are clearing 200k per year.

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@1forum1

A few thoughts:

* There is a tremendous amount of information on this forum about ways to maximize your income - including in this very thread. The first step in making more money is to read, read read. There are folks who post regularly on this forum who really know what they are doing (and some who either currently do this for a living, or have previously. Some of them share a lot.

* Earning $100/hr on a periodic gig, consistently earning $50/hr, and making $100,000 in a year are totally different things. Most folks who do this for a while will have the occasional hour when they really score. Only a small handful of folks who do this part time average $50/hr. Those who can (want to?) do this full time and earn $100,000 are rare.

* I do this part time and earn roughly $20,000 annually mystery shopping. I average over $50/hr. However, some days, like today, I don't. I think I averaged just shy of $35/hr today. If I were to do this full time, I'm pretty sure I could hit $100,000 if I really wanted to. However, I do *not* want to do what it would take to make that much mystery shopping.

* If you want to maximize your earnings, you need to first give yourself a chance:
A) Sign up with LOTS of MSC's (over 100; 200 is better). Basically, if you don't know what opportunities are really out there, you won't find them.
Make sure you are the person that a scheduler can call when something needs to be done. You are reliable. You do great work. You will go to the work - if the price is right.
C) Learn to be efficient. Don't drive across town for one shop. If you are going to drive somewhere, pick up several other visits along the way - where you add money without adding driving.
D) Know why are are picking up shops. If you are looking to make cash, a lot of "fun" shop (fine dining, amusement parks, etc.) aren't going to do the job. They might be worthwhile and something you really enjoy, but that's different than making money.
E) Expand your range. I set my "range" at 150-200 miles for day routes.
F) Be ready to travel. When it fits into my schedule, I'll fly across the country if there is an opportunity. Sometimes there is an area where multiple MSC's are desperate to get shops done - and will pay a premium to get the right person there for a few days.
G) Know your MSC's and the patterns they have with offering shops, raising compensation, etc. There are some MSC's I seek out much more at the beginning of the month. Others at the end. Know as much as you can about the contracts they have with their clients.
H) As a follow-up to "G," learn when you can ask for bonuses - and how much you can reasonably get - while not upsetting the MSC. You want to maintain a great relationship.
I) Know what you are worth. It's okay to decline work if it is not compensated up to your standard.
J) Consider video.
K) Learn how to make the most of the shops you are already doing. If you are doing a run of Jack in the Box drive-thru's, know what the cheapest allowable meal is and decide if it's worth your time to take the food temperature. If you are going to shop casinos, learn the games you are likely to play and have some betting strategies in mind based on the time you are going to be gambling, how much you can be reimbursed, etc.

That's far more than I intended to type when I started.... All the knowledge you need in order to thrive as a shopper is on this forum. I learned everything I know from folks here over the last past several years - and have personalized much of it to meet my needs and desires.

A final note: If you really think you want to do this full time, consider:
* Mystery Shopping does not offer health benefits. You need to be able to make much more doing this than you would at a full-time job in order to overcome the financial benefits of good health insurance.
* A full time mystery shopper will spend a lot of time on the road (weeks and months). This is not for everybody.
* If you do this full time, you will have 80 hour work weeks - and zero hour work weeks. You work when and where the good work is.

@1forum1 wrote:

Three figures per hour? Doing what? I would like one gig where I can make that kind of money. Again, I know I must be doing something wrong. What can I do to make the $50-$100 per hour people are averaging. I can see that happening maybe a couple of good days during the year. Sure, I've opened an account for a $100 before, or done a couple of 20 minute $50 audit/inspection shops, but those are rare. I have done the investment shops that pay $100-$150, but I got to sit there an hour an then do the stupid narratives on the evaluation. That takes time, more time than I feel like, so I don't do them anymore.

So, give me a clue. You people making that $83,000 to $200,000 per year mystery shopping. If you are making that $40 t0 $100 per hour average, that would be your yearly income. What are you doing that I am not?
Thank you.

@Niner wrote:

It would be interesting if we actually had some way of anonymously posting our actual yearly totals, cash, not reimbursements. Since we are in tax time, we have the information. This question about pay (hourly/yearly) seems to be a frequent post on the forum.

I would be surprised if even some of the smaller MSCs themselves are clearing 200k per year.

Without some objective measure of comparative effort expended to get it, the data wouldn't mean much. We have people on here who work mystery shopping for a couple hours a quarter all the way through to those who work 60 or 80 hours a week.

@ MF J
Who is making $100K mystery shopping here? 90k? 80k? 70k? 60k? 50k? 40k? 30k? I won't ask about 20k. I agree that those who are making 100k is rare, but what is more rare is someone who can, but don't want to.

Based on your dissertation, you take this far more seriously than I do. I pretty much live a life of leisure and relaxation. I am not interested in ever working a 80 hour week, 8 maybe. Humm... 8 x $50 per hour = $400 per week, $1600 per month x 12 = $19,200 per year. Darn near that 20k. Yep, that's what I'm talking about. Are you averaging 8 hour work weeks to generate that 20K? Nothing you stated adds up to earning 20k at $50 per hour.

I am not traveling 150-200 miles range (Wow! Is that one way?). Sheesh... that's 3 to 4 hours right there. You gotta make about $100 per hour to average $50 per hour at that point.

I am not doing a bunch Jack in the Sack shops in day. You cannot make $50 per hour doing Jack in the Shack. I don't care how fast you are, or if you take the time to do the temperature.

Fly across the country? OK... You gotta be making $100- $200 per hour and in a couple of 8 hour days for it to be worthwhile. Specifically, what shop is that? I might consider it.

I am not signing up with 100 companies, and I dang sure ain't signing up with 200. I have more shops available with the 10-15 companies I am currently with than I can possibly handle as it is. I stay as busy as I want with that minuscule number.

MF J.... I hear it's hard being the smartest person in the room, but sometimes your words of wisdom are condescending. For example, "It's OK to decline work if it's not compensated to your standard." Really?

For example, "Learn to be efficient. Don't drive across town for one shop..." Why didn't I think of that?

For example, "Earning $100/hr on a periodic gig, consistently earning $50/hr, and earning $100,000 are two totally different things." I can't.... Next

For example, "There is a tremendous amount of information on this forum......including this very thread... read read read." True, there is a lot of information on this forum. There is also a lot of BS on this forum too, including this very thread. You don't have to be the smartest person in the room to know the difference.

I could go on, but..

Lastly, like you, I am typing far more than I intended. Full time mystery shopping is not for everybody, especially if "thriving" means most of the aforementioned. I am perfectly content doing what I do and generating the income I generate. Since people claim to be averaging averaging averaging $50 and upwards per hour, I just thought I would ask how. So far, no responses support the claim.

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@JustForFun wrote:

@Niner wrote:

It would be interesting if we actually had some way of anonymously posting our actual yearly totals, cash, not reimbursements. Since we are in tax time, we have the information. This question about pay (hourly/yearly) seems to be a frequent post on the forum.

I would be surprised if even some of the smaller MSCs themselves are clearing 200k per year.

Without some objective measure of comparative effort expended to get it, the data wouldn't mean much. We have people on here who work mystery shopping for a couple hours a quarter all the way through to those who work 60 or 80 hours a week.

Exactly. I suspect that the more hours you work, your hourly rate diminishes accordingly. Sure, I can do one shop and make $50-70 an hour, but if I work and additional 39 hours, it would be improbable at best to maintain that hourly rate.

@ Shop-et-al ... Your quote:
1. I am not one of the "You people making that $83,000 to $200,000 per year mystery shopping." I am a person who occasionally gets lucky and, despite an odd schedule, makes good money on some of my work days. Most of the time, I complete one or a few shops at a time due to time and energy constraints. (I work shortly after midnight every day and I have to sleep!)

2. You are not necessarily doing anything wrong.

3. Sometimes, the bonuses and the efficiencies converge upon your good fortune. I hope that this will happen for you. smiling smiley

My reply:
1. If you were one of those people making 83k to 200k, I'm not mad at you. I would be happy for you. I get what you are saying now. Thanks for the well wishes of bonuses and so forth converging upon me. It does happen occasionally. I am really perfectly happy doing what I do. I suspect I do as well as most, but it doesn't matter. I'm good. Thanks again.

Okay, so many people who are making $50 per hour or more are video shoppers, like MFJ, walesmaven, and bgriffin. There's one answer. Secondly, people like SoCalMama do bar integrity shops and other projects that pay very well.

For me, there are online financial shops where I can sit in my pajamas at my computer and make $60 to $150 in one hour. I occasionally get paid $200 or more to open credit cards (30 minutes of my time) also online and monitor the activity for several months (the monthly activity monitoring pays $20 and takes 15-30 minutes total each month). I am not factoring in the perks offered by the cc companies, but last year one card gave me 10 free hotel stays for spending a certain amount on the card. Other cards have paid $200-$300 for spending a certain amount. Of course I pay them off each month and never pay interest.

In March I am being paid $200 to open a checking account at a bank 4 miles from home, that should take about 2 hours including prep time, drive time, time ar the bank, and reporting. Every month I do 50-60 convenience stores all within 20 miles of home. They only pay $8 each (sometimes $10-$12), but I can do 5 of them in an hour including reporting time on the app.

In April there will be a new round of post office shops and there are 16 of them within 20 miles. Many of them are near my convenience stores. They pay $12 each and can also be done on the app. Throw in 1 or 2 bonused cell phone shops ($25-$30 for 20 minutes of time) and my average just went up. I also do merchandising jobs that i can work in around my shops, some of which are flat rate and take very little time.

I don't want to work 80 hour weeks either.
I have a lot of downtime and enjoy it. Now I have no proof to support any of my claims of how much I make per hour, you just have to take my word for it.

@1forum1 wrote:

I do and generating the income I generate. Since people claim to be averaging $50 and upwards per hour, I just thought I would ask how. So far, no responses support the claim.

@1forum1
If you are just going to be rude or argue with the answers you get and insult those who respond, don't ask the question.

You are happy with your 10-15 companies and are content with what you are making in a life of relaxation: Great. One of the great things about mystery shopping is that everybody can do as much or as little as they wish - so as to meet their needs. However, with your very limited knowledge of the mystery shopping available to you, you are in no position to call BS on anybody.

You asked how people could make good money. Then you scoff at how seriously they might take it and argue with them. People who make this much money are doing it as a source of income to support themselves and their families. They have a vested interest in maximizing their profits while minimizing the time they spend doing it. Yes, they take it seriously - just as any small business owner would.

You state that I was being condescending by mentioning a number of topics. However, your answers make clear that you don't understand the topics. You scoffed at my suggestion that you learn to be "efficient," so I'll tackle that below:

1. You state that you are content with your 10-15 MSC's. Guess what? You are not as efficient with your work as you could be. Every time you drive across town to do a shop or two, you are almost certainly driving right past other, more lucrative shops. Because you are only with a few MSC's you have no idea what is really available to you. Heck, if you were with 150 MSC's, you might realize that those shops to which you are currently driving aren't even worth the drive. For all you know there is something far better in the other direction.

2. You are dead wrong about JIB: . They get bonused to the point where you can make $15 -$20 profit per shop. That's not bad for something that takes 10-15 minutes (including the report) that that doesn't require that you leave your car. An enterprising (efficient) shopper could make a heck of a run of these, especially during non-peak hours where traffic is minimal and drive-thru lines are non-existent. I also add them on routes as fillers on routes so that I make money during what would otherwise be dead time. Efficiency.

3. You keep asking, "What shop is that?" You don't get it: It's not one shop, it's all of them. When I drive 200 miles or fly out-of-state to a shop, I'm picking up shops along my drive or grouping multiple shops near my destination I'm talking to schedulers and asking for bonuses. I'm declining offers that don't pay well-enough. On my last out-of-town trip, I performed work for about ten different MSC's. I found shops that would increase my income while only slightly increasing my travel time. I also got as much payment for those shops as I reasonably could.



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@JustForFun wrote:

@Niner wrote:

It would be interesting if we actually had some way of anonymously posting our actual yearly totals, cash, not reimbursements. Since we are in tax time, we have the information. This question about pay (hourly/yearly) seems to be a frequent post on the forum.

I would be surprised if even some of the smaller MSCs themselves are clearing 200k per year.

Without some objective measure of comparative effort expended to get it, the data wouldn't mean much. We have people on here who work mystery shopping for a couple hours a quarter all the way through to those who work 60 or 80 hours a week.

Then have something where we could post hours worked on average and salaries. This could be done. I don't think people would share this though unless it was done anonymously.

This might look like Glassdoor. ?

And, someone should do the glossary for us. For example, someone should clearly define work as.. well, where does it begin and end? Does it include or exclude studying guidelines, charging a cell phone, and time at dry cleaners to drop off/pick up clothing that qualifies for certain locations? Does it include travel time? etc.

@Niner wrote:

@JustForFun wrote:

@Niner wrote:

It would be interesting if we actually had some way of anonymously posting our actual yearly totals, cash, not reimbursements. Since we are in tax time, we have the information. This question about pay (hourly/yearly) seems to be a frequent post on the forum.

I would be surprised if even some of the smaller MSCs themselves are clearing 200k per year.

Without some objective measure of comparative effort expended to get it, the data wouldn't mean much. We have people on here who work mystery shopping for a couple hours a quarter all the way through to those who work 60 or 80 hours a week.

Then have something where we could post hours worked on average and salaries. This could be done. I don't think people would share this though unless it was done anonymously.

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@Niner wrote:

@JustForFun wrote:

@Niner wrote:

It would be interesting if we actually had some way of anonymously posting our actual yearly totals, cash, not reimbursements. Since we are in tax time, we have the information. This question about pay (hourly/yearly) seems to be a frequent post on the forum.

I would be surprised if even some of the smaller MSCs themselves are clearing 200k per year.

Without some objective measure of comparative effort expended to get it, the data wouldn't mean much. We have people on here who work mystery shopping for a couple hours a quarter all the way through to those who work 60 or 80 hours a week.

Then have something where we could post hours worked on average and salaries. This could be done. I don't think people would share this though unless it was done anonymously.

hahahaha NO.
apples to oranges.
You're going to compare shoppers who rent a private island for an afternoon to those walking around photographing a dirty gas stations in Compton? Cricket Wireless to a video garage integrity? What's the point?

Apples, oranges, grapes, kiwi, and more.

Also number of hours worked per day/week/month, what city/state you live in, how much competition is in your area, do you like doing bank and other financial shops or do you prefer parking shops, restaurants, etc., do you shop for money, lifestyle enhancement, or a combination of both...and so forth. It's impossible to give any sort of comparison.

And... are you disqualified for being too young, too old, and/or having worked in certain industries? (I am. My range of shops is about the size of a thimble. My range of interests is smaller than that.)

We could have a thread like the "where did you shop today thread," if anyone was interested:

Number of shops
Type of shop
Weekly reimbursement
Weekly total

Mmmmm....yummy

@JASFLALMT wrote:

Apples, oranges, grapes, kiwi, and more.

It's a veritable fruit salad.

This thread reminds me once again of the general issue with mystery shop fees. States vary in minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $14 an hour, with about 1/3 of the states having a minimum wage at $10 an hour or higher. Yet mystery shopping companies pay the same fee or reimbursement across all states, usually including even high priced Alaska and Hawaii. A shopper fee of $15 for a 20 minute job carries much more financial weight for those at or near minimum wage in states paying $7.25 an hour than it does for those in states paying $12-$14 an hour. Someone making $10,000 a year in some states would be adding significantly to their household income, while it would be useful but not a big deal in an area such as New York City or Seattle, where the local minimum wage is even higher that the state minimum. "How much do you make an hour" is irrelevant. How much does what you make add to your financial security is what matters, and that should include reimbursements for items you would buy anyway, such as groceries, toiletries and gasoline.

I like the top half of what Sandy Shopper said above. Of course i am biased by Sandy's name. Let me add that I am a very part time shopper. I do not do more than 3 shops in one day usually. But I do have traffic issues where I live. I doubt I could string together a route of those burger shops here that would be a big money maker even tho they have a bonus on them that is pretty big for this town. I could probably do two in an hour if i was lucky. I try to pair all my shops with personal errands I have to do in different parts of town to make them worthwhile. For those burger shops there are about 6 locations within 5 miles in different directions from where I live. Once the bonuses of a few dollars start of the 6 maybe two are available. A 5 mile drive can take 25-45 minutes each way much of the day. Without a bonus they work out to a burger I do not want plus hourly pay below minimum wage. I know that minimum wage does not apply for contractors but alas it does apply when trying to buy groceries or pay rent.
When I choose shops in a part of town I plan to go to that month and then the timing does not work out I end up driving to the two or three shops and spending 2-3 hours without reporting time for easy shops. The trip 8 miles each way, the traffic 12 miles per hour average in town. The circling to find parking plus walking 10 minutes on average. Once in a while I take a shop that pays and/or reimburses very well. Like Jasflalmnt the from home financial shops are the best paying I have found but those do not come up often.
That is my answer to the $20 an hour question. If I chose to try to earn $20 an hour overall anywhere near full time I would really be scrambling and having to do shops that take me through the kind of traffic where you want to tear your hair out.
Kudos to the California shoppers that have found their high paying jobs. They have worked very hard at carving out and maintaining a niche for themselves. Not something all shoppers are able or willing to do.

I agree with SCM...it's just too subjective to put into the one-size-fits-all hourly wage. And location plays a big factor what an hourly wage gets you anyway. I have said this before, but for me it's about quality of life, and how MSing fits into that. That what needs to be compared!

For those who shop for wages only, my annual income from MSing might seem paltry, but I'll put my annual reimbursement total up against any others and bet I am amongst the highest (I am the one who rented a private island last year!).

I earn a wage that's higher than pretty much any MSing assignment at my regular job, so the question that remains is, "What shops are worth it?" For me; that's shopping something I would pay for anyway, combined with spending less time reporting on it than I would making the money to pay for the whole event on my own. And I have my goal: $50k in reimbursements annually, with approximately 20% of my work hours devoted to MSing vs my regular career.

I'm in way more than 40 hours weekly, even if I'm not MSing, but the point is that I could probably not put that 20% additional effort into my career and pull another $90k out of it (since the reimbursements art not taxable)...and that makes my lifestyle/reimbursement shops extremely profitable to me. It also greatly increases my quality of life.

For those who want the gas station shops...good for them. For those who say they don't want to shop while on vacation...good for them as well, but I'm on vacation 12-16 weeks each year, so I'm not in a situation to pay out of pocket for that, nor would I want to. I enjoy doing the travel assignments. I probably wouldn't know where I wanted to go if I had to decide a vacation destination on my own, so I look through the available options and pick something interesting each time. Golf on a Caribbean island?...sure! Rent that island?....why not? Wine tasting in Napa?...hell yes! Island hopping through South-east Asia?...never would have done it without an MS offer and it changed my perspective on life. I don't think you can even put a monetary value on something like that, so I'll put my happiness quotient up against most other shoppers too!

@SoCalMama wrote:

@Niner wrote:

@JustForFun wrote:

@Niner wrote:

It would be interesting if we actually had some way of anonymously posting our actual yearly totals, cash, not reimbursements. Since we are in tax time, we have the information. This question about pay (hourly/yearly) seems to be a frequent post on the forum.

I would be surprised if even some of the smaller MSCs themselves are clearing 200k per year.

Without some objective measure of comparative effort expended to get it, the data wouldn't mean much. We have people on here who work mystery shopping for a couple hours a quarter all the way through to those who work 60 or 80 hours a week.

Then have something where we could post hours worked on average and salaries. This could be done. I don't think people would share this though unless it was done anonymously.

hahahaha NO.
apples to oranges.
You're going to compare shoppers who rent a private island for an afternoon to those walking around photographing a dirty gas stations in Compton? Cricket Wireless to a video garage integrity? What's the point?