Top earner stats

[aguy92]

With some of the absolute crappy answers I've seen, I wouldn't be surprised if some people just click on the first 'auto answer' and then edit the text to make it worth 10 cents instead of 5 to send it out. If you were do that you would probably make $10 an hour until however long it takes for that kind of thing to be discovered.

Either way, some people send out some horrible answers that have nothing to do with the question asked.

[msuggitt]

Good eye aguy92. I don't work for kgb (or any of the others) but with a background in mngt/admin this post caught my eye. It only took some simple business math and common sense to make me agree that it really doesn't add up.

aguy92 was very conservative with the numbers, as this guy would be working 12 hours a day for 31 days straight and the numbers don't even reflect any breaks, lunches, nor potty breaks? hmmmm.... somehow it doesn't sound possible.

this question may be best served directed at someone who has input into job descriptions and pay, hr/payroll maybe? It's great you're watching out for yourself while you're working at home - I call it "minding your own business" and I give aguy92 a high mark hopefully you guys get some answers or resolutions

[aguy92]

Well we got the November top earner numbers and someone managed to outdo Daniel M. this
month, the man of the month is Chris G. Chris managed to answer 10,455 questions in the 30
days of November, and made $1,146!

Daniel M 'only' made $1,013 in November, that is $200 less than he made in October.

I also see that the next 5 winners in cash were able to supplement their per question
answers pretty well with contest winnings, which makes since as they would have more chance
to win the contests answering more questions:

Chris G 10,455 question answered for $1,146....that would be about $1044.50 on answers alone
and about $100 winnings in the contests.

Daniel M answered 9,850 questions answered for $1,013 that would be about $63 dollars in
conest winnings

Ernest C 5,788 questions answered for $901, on answers alone this would only be $578 so he
won about $322 in contests.

Kristy A 5,681 questions answerd for $602 this would mean she won about $34 dollars in
contests.

Justin C. quite possibly uses some recycled answers because he answered 6,335 but only came
away with $571, thats an average of about .09 cents per answer, so he probably uses a recycled answer about 10% of the time.

[mesia]

well since I'm an avid fan of math, I thought that I'd add my 10 cents (get it? lol. jk) anyway.... So Chris G answered 10,455 questions this month and made $1,146. There are 30 days in November so he answered (on average) about 348 questions per day. So let's say that he worked 9 hours per day. So that would be about 39 questions per hour. and that means 1.5 minutes for EVERY question. Wow! I don't know how these people do it. I actually take my time and send quality answers. Sometimes it takes less than 30 seconds to answer one. but sometimes the hard questions take 10 minutes. I don't know how they do it everyday. lol

[aguy92]

This would be my honest question to the top earners also, how do they deal with the occassional really tough question, do they just give an 'alternate answer' or do they work 12 hour days and actually research the tough questions. I would say one question every hour on average is a 'hard' question for me, something I Have to put 5-10 minutes in looking the answer. I would say the average question only takes 2 minutes to answer, even less if its a .05 database answer of course. If Chris made the average of what people on the board report, about 2.50 an hour he would have to work 418! hours in a month.

418 hours is almost 14 hours per day. Even if he made $3 an hour, every single hour he would be working 348 hours or 11.6 hours a day. Even $4 an hour is 8.7 hours a day. I would be incredibly burnt out and hating KGB if I tried to work even more than about 3 hours a day lol....sometimes you just need a break.

Again there is very real possibility that the top earners let other people use their accounts, that would at least cut out the factor of being completely fatigued and burnt out.