Make an Extra $50-$200 on the Side with These Focus Group Sites

Wanna make a little extra cash on the side just by answering some questions?

Instead of doing surveys that might pay $1-$5 each, try some of the focus groups that average around $100 per hour of your time.

What is a focus group?

It's usually when researchers get a small group of people together and ask them questions about a topic in hopes of gathering data on a subject.

These days, focus group sites let you do this from home (not just in-person) and 1-on-1 (not always in a group).

It's more convenient than ever and can pay an average of $50-$200 or more per gig!

Here are some places to find these:

User Interviews

At User Interviews, you can get paid an average of around $1 per minute or more to participate in focus groups and other studies.

You can participate in these 1-on-1, in a group, locally, at home, over the phone, etc.

They have lots of different gigs taking anywhere from around 10 minutes to a few hours.

Some are for the general population and welcome almost anyone to participate, while others may require you to have a certain occupation or meet a particular demographic.

Respondent

At Respondent, you can earn $20-$400/hour ($120/hour avg.) participating in focus groups.

These gigs are mostly remote and, luckily, not city specific.

They also have a referral program that pays $50 per referral if the person you referred participates in a study.

WatchLAB

Another place where you can find these gigs is at WatchLAB.

Here you can make $60-$150/hour (avg. $100/hour).

What's also nice about WatchLAB is you can get started as a teenager as young as 16 years old.

Usually these studies are city-specific, but many can still be done at home.

Updates for these gigs can be found on their Facebook page here.

Focuscope

Another focus group organization is Focuscope.

Here, you can earn $75-$250/hour ($100 avg. payout).

These focus groups are also usually city-specific, but most studies are remote.

Focuscope also likes to post their opportunities to a Facebook page that you can find here.

FindFocusGroups.com

A different type of site where you can find focus groups and surveys is FindFocusGroups.com.

This is actually a focus group jobs board.

Here, you can find surveys, focus groups, etc. that usually pay $65-$160/hour ($100/hour avg).

But, you'll also find some that pay $350, $450, or even $600 as well.

Many of these are also remote and can be done nationwide in the U.S.

Rare Patient Voice

At Rare Patient Voice, you can get paid to answer questions if you are a patient or caregiver of someone who has a terminal or severe illness.

This not only can make you a few hundred dollars ($120/hour for some gigs), but also help further research to prevent and cure some illnesses.

You usually need to be located in either the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia, and New Zealand.

Contract Testing

At Contract Testing, you can get paid to test food, beverages, consumer products, and more.

Most of there studies are done in person, but some may allow you to test products at home.

As a tester, there site says you should earn a minimum of $35 per session.

They also have many different testing locations across the US and Canada.