其次，托客选择要完成的任务。托客完成的任务一般都具有重复性，且报酬普遍较低—25%任务报酬低至0.01美元，70%任务报酬低于0.05美元，只有不到10%的任务报酬超过0.10美元。表5-2罗列了不同任务的可获得数量和相应报酬。①有些任务(如人工翻译)的报酬不及同类线下工作报酬的十分之一。②根据乔尔·罗斯(JoelRoss)等学者的统计，托客的时薪约为8美元，这远远低于美国在职人员的平均时薪标准。20%和50%托客分别将报酬作为自己第一和第二大经济来源。③
第五章 全球外包，数字劳动与劳动控制
① Irani, Lilly and M.Six Silberman. Turkopticon: Interrupting Work Invisibilityin Amazon Mechanical Turk. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 27 - May 2, 2013, Paris, France.
②Callison-Burch, Chris and Mark Dredze. Creating Speech and Language Data with Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on CreatingSpeech and Language Data with Amazon's Mechanical Turk, June 6, 2010, Morristown, NJ.
③这里需要说明的是，托客大多很难进人传统劳动力市场，来自MTurk的报酬成为他们日常 生活的重要经济来源。参见Ross，Joel，Irani，Lilly，Silberman，M.Six，Zaldivar，Andrew and Bill Tomlinson. Who Are the Crowdworkers? Shifting Demographics in Mechanical Turk. Proceedings of the 28th of the International Conference Extended Abstracts on Hurnan Factors in Computing System, April 10 - 15, 2010, New York.
④表格内容来自笔者登录MTurk官方网站后对相关信息的整理，并参阅了Silbeman、MSixand Lilly Irani. Operating an Employer Reputation System: Lessons from Turkopticon. 2008-2015. Comparative Labour Law and Policy Journal,2016(3):505-542 的相关内容。
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