Top 10 Survey Sites to Earn Money

Want to earn some extra cash from the comfort of your home? One easy way to earn money remotely is to complete online surveys. Various companies want your thoughts and are willing to pay for your time. Most survey sites require little effort and time and can give you a regular extra income stream. We’ve compiled a list of the top 10 survey sites in the UK that can help you to earn a bit of extra money

How Surveys Work

Surveys are simple questionnaires that help businesses find out more about potential or existing customers. This can be done via consumer reviews or general market research. Your thoughts matter, so survey sites offer a platform where companies can get the data they need and you, the survey-taker, will also be rewarded.
Online surveys are a quick and easy way to make some extra money. Some surveys are just a few minutes long and you’ll be given a cash or voucher reward.

How to Get the Most Out of Online Surveys

Choose your platforms

Start by joining a few different sites and seeing which ones work for you. Some have higher payouts, some take less time. You can find some to suit your lifestyle depending on how much time and effort you can commit.
Aim to have a few favourite websites. Most survey sites ask for a specific demographic for each separate survey, so you might not qualify for some if you only follow one site.

Set up your emails

You should ensure that you have your emails set up in a way that works for you. Do you want to do surveys as soon as they hit the inbox? Set up alerts or notifications so that you know when the next one is in.

It’s worth considering a separate email address just for your survey sites. This means that you will avoid your regular inbox receiving spam emails associated with any sites you’ve joined. You will also have your surveys all in one place so it will be easier to manage.

Update your account regularly

As mentioned above, you usually have to qualify for surveys. Be sure to check in on your accounts every few months at least in case anything changes, such as you now have a car, an extra family member, and so on.

Top 10 Survey Sites to Earn Money

Prolific

Prolific has surveys, games and studies for scientific research, new products or public opinion from top companies and universities.
Payout: At least $6.50 per hour.

YouGov

YouGov is an international survey site that provides companies, governments, and institutions with information on current issues and trends. It helps them make decisions based on what the population is thinking.
The surveys can be for a variety of current affairs topics, so it might be interesting to be part of. They publish some results in articles on the YouGov website.
Payout: Points are assigned for each survey. This amount varies, but you can turn points into cash.

OnePoll

OnePoll is trusted by the media and has powered over 100,000 news headlines in the past decade. When you take part in these surveys, they drive the results that appear in the news.
OnePoll surveys focus more on marketing efforts for companies, so will often help organisations make retail decisions. The payout is quite low, but you can rack up the payments doing a few surveys per day.
Payout: £2.50 for joining. 10-20p per survey. 

Qmee 

There are a few ways to earn money online via Qmee, including browser search rewards and retail offers and vouchers from your favourite brands.
Surveys include consumer topics as well as universal and public interest polls. There is no earning threshold so you can cash out to PayPal at any time. You can also use your rewards to spend on gift cards on the site.
Payout: 50p – £2 per survey. 

Life Points

With Lifepoints surveys, you collect points from online surveys and can use them for rewards of your choice. While there is technically no cash pay out, the rewards do have a monetary value, so it’s worth seeing if there are rewards you would like.
Payout: Rewards only. 

Opinion Outpost

A popular survey site, but there is also the option to test products, watch ads, and more. On Opinion Outpost you earn points that can be swapped for a payout in cash or can buy vouchers for the likes of Amazon and the App Store and iTunes.
Payout: Up to 50 points per survey. Low cash out threshold of 30 points via vouchers or 100 via PayPal. 

I-Say

A very user-friendly survey site, I-Say can be accessed via an app and on desktops.
Your opinions are wanted on everything from global brands to entertainment and more, with the feedback going straight to the people and companies that can affect change with the data.
Payout: Varies widely – 5p to £2 per survey.

Valued Opinions

A well known and well paying survey site, with Valued Opinions, you can cash out for gift cards from many high street retailers as well as Amazon.
While it’s not cash itself, you should be able to find retailers that you use regularly.
Payout: £1-£5 per survey. £1 typical payment. 

Attapoll

Attapoll is an app that connects you with a range of companies and organisations in order to help them develop new products and services or improve existing ones.
Attapoll is different to most other sites in that you can control the length of surveys you are invited to so it’s great if you don’t have much time to complete surveys, for example.
Payout: Varies widely – 12p to £1+. Expected earning of £4-5 an hour. 

Populuslive

Populuslive gives members the opportunity to earn £1 for every 5 minutes that they spend on a survey. Depending on the length, most surveys pay between 1 to 3 points each (1 point = £1) and take about 5 to 15 minutes to finish.
Payment is not immediate as it is made once the survey has closed, which can be days or months. The payout threshold is high at £50, but it’s one of the higher paying survey sites and means you can accumulate a good amount before cashing out.
Payout: £1 per 5 minutes.

In order to earn money on survey sites, it is best to consistently use them to accumulate larger amounts. The more time you spend, the more you earn.