If you want a side hustle that doesn't require long-term commitments, but also pays well, it's tough to know where to look.
At these websites, you can get paid $200 or more for each task you complete:
1. Appen
Social Media Video Evaluator
With a Social Media Video Evaluator gig at Appen, you can get paid $300 one-time to watch 750 short videos and enter data about them.
This gig usually takes around 25-30 hours to complete and doesn't require any experience.
2. Textbroker
At Textbroker, you can get paid to be a freelance writer and create blog posts for clients.
There is no experience required to apply, however they do have a skills test you'll need to pass to get approved as a writer.
Here, you get paid by the word (up to $0.055 each), depending on the quality of your articles.
For instance, you could earn $302.50 for a 5500-word article.
You can also earn by having people hire you for direct orders, where you make your own payrates.
On top of that, there is an option for you to join groups where you have certain preset payrates.
3. Voices
If you want to get paid very well to read a script, book, or just about anything else, you might look into voiceover sites.
Voices is arguably the biggest voiceover job site in the market.
Here, you can earn $100 to $250 for around 30 seconds or less than a page of script.
National commercials for big brands pay the most, which is often between $5,000 and $25,000 per gig.
Audiobooks pay $200-$300/finished hour. Therefore, you can make up to $3,000 or so, depending on the length of the audiobook.
Or, you could even start out doing explainer videos, which are considered the easiest voiceover jobs because they are short, usually between 30 and 60 seconds, and they use simple language to explain a new idea or to introduce a new product.
No matter what kind of voiceovers you do, you can usually get very well compensated at a site like Voices.
Here's a page with a breakdown of how much you can make.
4. Code Tuts+
At Code Tuts+, you can get paid $100-$250 per in-depth web development tutorials you have guest published.
They are looking for people who can write about both front-end and back-end web development.
They accept articles about PHP, Ruby, server-side JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, document-based database systems, and other web development-related topics.
A “quick tip” (a shorter tutorial), pays $100.
If you contribute an in-depth tutorial, however, you’ll be paid $250.
5. Real Python
At Real Python, you can get paid around $300 per article to guest post articles about python, web development, data science, productivity, psychology, careers, and a lot more.
They expect articles to be at least 1,500 words and prefer writers to be advanced-level developers.
They're known for paying via PayPal.
6. Link Able
With Link Able, you can get paid an average of $375 per backlink you get for clients.
Backlinks are basically when one website links directly to another, usually within a blog post.
This sends signal to Google and other search engines that the content being linked to must be high quality and therefore can help it rank higher in search results.
This results in more traffic and revenue for the website that gets higher rankings.
Because backlinks can be such a big help in ranking content, site owners will pay a premium to people who can get them.
At Link Able, you can get matched with brands that want more backlinks and will pay well for them (some will pay as much as $1000 each).