The Bottom Line: Online Survey Takers

Taking surveys online -- and making $75 an hour to do it?

Some CBS6 viewers think it sounds like a pretty good deal -- and have e-mailed Dori Marlin to get to The Bottom Line, and find out if it's true.

Job openings spotted advertise companies looking for "online survey takers" and claim they make $75 an hour.  Bill Vandenburg e-mailed Dori, saying he found those openings posted on Job Alerts from Yahoo.com, and even on the State Labor Department's own job search sites.

So what's The Bottom Line, on the jobs that "seem" too good to be true?

Dori talked to the State Labor Department; the folks there told her, they tried to go online and apply for the jobs, but the postings had since been removed.

Based on that, officials say the jobs "could" be real -- because many times, survey companies will pay good money to get the surveys done quickly.

However, the Labor Department also told Dori, they get "thousands" of job postings each week; and because they get so many, it is "possible" that a few in there "are not what they claim to be."

The Bottom Line from the State Labor Department?  You've probably heard it before: if it looks and sounds too good to be true, it probably is!

If a posting asks you to pay up front, that should definitely serve as a red flag.  The goal is for you to make money, not "pay" for a job.

If something doesn't look legit to you, be sure to report it to the Labor Department.  To get to their website, click here: http://www.labor.ny.gov/home .

And if something else is affecting your Bottom Line, that could affect others' as well, send Dori an e-mail: news@cbs6albany.com .