Looking for easy ways to earn money online and someone has recommended joining Swagbucks to you?
Yes, it works, but honestly, how much money can you make on Swagbucks in a day or even in a month?
Is it really worth the time? Would it make you a living or even pay for the internet bill? Or is it just trading time for pennies?
Are there better alternatives to making money with Swagbucks from your own home?
These are some of the questions that I will be answering in this article in order to make you aware of what might happen before you join and start investing your time doing online surveys or watching videos in order to make money with Swagbucks.
So, let’s start!
First of all:
Can You Make Money On Swagbucks?
Yes, you can make money on Swagbucks by doing different stuff.
You could make money with Swagbucks by doing some stuff that you already do such as using Swagbucks search engine in order to do the normal web searches that you do on daily basis.
Or you could make money on Swagbucks by dedicating the time to do things that you don’t necessarily want to do such as: taking surveys, watching videos, playing games, …etc.
But the important question is:
How Much Money Can You Make on Swagbucks?
Here’s how much money you can make with Swagbucks:
A survey that takes 15-20 minutes to complete might pay you around $1. (Many pay even less)
So, in an hour you could make 3-4 dollars!
That’s less than the minimum wage in many states!
Assuming that you can work three hours per day, five days a week or twenty days per month, then:
$3 X 3 Hours = $9 per day.
$9 X 20 Days = $180 per month for working three hours a day, five days a week, for a complete month! And that’s very optimistic!
- You might make no money at all with Swagbucks, for example, if you don’t live in a country that is supported by Swagbucks, and there are only few countries that Swagbucks accept members from.
- And you could make few bucks a day by spending hours playing games that you don’t necessarily want to play or by taking online surveys in order to make money.
- Or you could make few cents, bucks or more in the form of a cashback if you want to by something from one of the major online retailers such as Amazon, but you need to go through Swagbucks website and then go to the retailer’s site in order to purchase, or by you can make few cents a day by using their search engine for your daily web searches.
In general, the ways that you might earn money from Swagbucks with doing things that you don’t necessarily want to do (playing games, watching videos that you didn’t choose, taking surveys and polls, …etc.) don’t pay that much.
For example, a good payout for taking a survey on Swagbucks that might take ten minutes might probably make you one dollar.
And if you were lucky, you would have such surveys available all the time, which means that you could make $6/hour. And working 8 hours a day, that means 48 dollars a day after finishing 48 dollars.
This is assuming that there will be 48 different surveys available to complete every day, which is difficult to happen.
You might think of this as a good side income, but remember that you need to work full time (8 hours) in order to make this money!!
Doesn’t seem a good bargain to me!
And if you want to make money watching videos you don’t choose by yourself, then remember that you need to pay for the internet bundle that you will consume in order to make pennies!
And if you want to make money by doing the things you were going to do anyway such as searching the web, but using their own search engine, then that might be fine, and it would be the most useful way as you are already doing your search.
But remember that their search engine is not as good as Google.
And if you want to make money by getting cashback on the purchases you do on Amazon or Walmart by going through Swagbucks website first, then that’s fine as well, but you can do that only if you were going to purchase anyway.
You don’t just decide to shop online in Oder to get cashbacks!
In general, how much you can make on Swagbucks depends on where you live, how many hours a day you can waste, and the availability of tasks to finish on Swagbucks website.
In short:
You can earn nothing on Swagbucks if you don’t live in one of the few countries supported by them, or you can earn few dollars a day working many hours doing surveys and watching videos on Swagbucks website or app, or you can make few cents a day or few dollars a month doing things you would do anyway by using Swagbucks search engine as an alternative to Google.
How Much Does Swagbucks Pay For Each Task?
The amount of money that Swagbucks pays you for completing each task might differ based on your country, on the type of the task itself, or on the original company that listed that task on Swagbucks in the first place.
In general, you get what is called Swagbucks Points (SB) for each task.
For example, participating in a daily poll might pay only 1 SB (1 cent!!), and finishing a survey might pay you 100 SBs (1 dollar!).
How many Swagbucks equal a dollar?
100 Swagbucks equal one dollar.
How Does Swagbucks Pay You?
There are different of forms of how you get your rewards from Swagbucks.
After you collect a certain number of Swagbucks, and after a certain period of time has passed depending on the completed tasks, you can withdraw your earned Swagbucks in the form of cash or gift cards.
Does Swagbucks pay cash?
Yes, Swagbucks pay cash into your PayPal account.
How to convert Swagbucks into cash?
After you collect 2500 SBs, you can request to convert them into cash and withdraw it through PayPal.
Or you can turn your Swagbucks into cash by getting a gift card of a similar value.
How To Make Lots Of Money On Swagbucks Fast?
There’s not really a fast way of making lots of money on Swagbucks to my knowledge.
You need to put in lots of hours completing many tasks that pay low rewards, do that on daily basis and finally, turn the Swagbucks you collected into a gift card or into cash that you get through PayPal.
You don’t really get a lot of Swagbucks fast, unfortunately.
How To Make Money On Swagbucks?
There are different ways for making money with Swagbucks, such as:
- Taking online surveys they give to you.
- Watching video playlists they select for you.
- Signing up for free trials to try services or new products.
- Playing games online and paying money by yourself for “in-app purchases” more than what they will give you in SB!!!
- Get SB as a cashback after you shop online through their website.
The best way to make money on Swagbucks in my opinion is by doing things you were already going to do such as using their search engines instead of Google to do your daily searches, or by going through their website in order to make a purchase that you were planning to do anyway on Amazon or Walmart.
This is the best way to earn money on Swagbucks.
But if you think of earning money by watching videos on Swagbucks, then I don’t recommend that because you will need to waste lots of time watching videos you didn’t choose by yourself in order to make few bucks a day, and this will consume a lot of your internet bundle.
And let’s not talk about taking surveys online that can make you little money.
Swagbucks Available Countries
Swagbucks supported countries are only 11:
- The United States (and its territories)
- Ireland
- France
- Germany
- Australia
- New Zealand
- India
- Canada
- Spain
- Portugal
- United Kingdom
If you live in a country that is not mentioned in the above list, then don’t worry, you can check my Ultimate Make Money Online Guide for a better alternative way to make money online instead of just doing online surveys that pay pennies.
And even if you live in one of the above mentioned countries, then don’t get too excited as, like I explained, you don’t really make a living with Swagbucks.
I would recommend checking the same guide mentioned above as an alternative to making money on Swagbucks.
The Problem With Making Money With Swagbucks
Many things I don’t like about Swagbucks for making money online, and the main ones are:
1 – Not Available In All Countries
As mentioned above, if you don’t live in one of the eleven countries mentioned above, then don’t waste your time by applying. You won’t get approved.
Check the last section of this article for a better alternative.
2 – There Might Not Be Available Jobs
All The Time
As I mentioned earlier, you might need to complete 40+ surveys per day in order to make $40+ a day assuming every survey pays 100 SB (100).
You don’t guarantee to have this number of different surveys to complete every day, even if you have all the day to finish them.
3 – You Have To Accept What Is Thrown To You
You don’t have control over the surveys you have to complete and you don’t choose by yourself the videos you watch in order to make money from Swagbucks.
That’s not better than a real job that you hate. At least, the real job will pay more money.
4 – You Keep Trading Time For Pennies
This is the problem with this method of making money online, whether it was through Swagbucks or any similar alternative.
Not only that the payout is not that much, but also, you need to keep working in order to earn money with Swagbucks, and the moment you stop working, you stop making money.
In other words, you are a part-time under-paid employee who trades hours for pennies.
While you can build a real business online that pays you even when you are asleep or if you take a couple of days as a break, like it is in my recommended alternative in the last section in this article.
5 – Not Much Money To Make
As explained earlier, you don’t make a lot of money with Swagbucks even when you work many hours a day.
Can you make a living with Swagbucks?
No, you can’t make a living on Swagbucks by watching videos, taking surveys or by surfing the web through their search engine.
Conclusion – Is Swagbucks Worth It?
In my opinion, Swagbucks can make you little money if you are in one of the 11 supported countries, but it is little money and not a money to make living with.
And you need to trade many hours of your day in order to make few bucks with Swagbucks by actively doing tasks such as completing surveys or by watching videos you didn’t choose by yourself.
The only time Swagbucks would be worth it is that when you make online purchases that you were going to do anyway on Amazon or Walmart, but you do it this time through Swagbucks and get a reward or cashback.
And maybe, you can use Swagbucks search engine instead of Google in order to make few cents a day.
In a nutshell, don’t expect to make a living with Swagbucks.
A Better Alternative to Swagbucks for Making Money Online from Home?
Yes, the best alternative to Swagbucks is to build a real online business that takes time and effort to build, but if done right, it can pay you much more than what Swagbucks would pay after wasting hours of your day filling surveys or watching videos that don’t do you anything useful.
I will be honest with you, building an online business takes time before you start getting money, and that is the case with any business even the offline ones.
But once it starts to pay off, it would be much more rewarding than the few bucks that you make from doing tedious tasks on daily basis on Swagbucks.
And with time, this business could make you a living instead of just “swagbucks”.
And better, after you build a successful online business, it can bring you money even when you are asleep or on vacation, unlike with making money on Swagbucks where you have to keep working in order to make money.
And don’t worry!
Online businesses don’t cost that much to start, and better, the method I recommend can be started for free at the beginning using the same place I used to build my online business in order to make money online.
I have prepared the Ultimate Make Money Online Guide for you where I explain how this method works, where can you learn it and how to get started for free in few minutes from now.
Give YOURSELF five minutes to read my guide through the following button in order to learn how to build a sustainable and long-term online income-generating business and stop looking for short-term solutions that keep you working hours in exchange of pennies:
And if you have any questions about how much money you can make with Swagbucks, or about my recommended alternative in the guide above, please, leave them below in the comments’ section and I will be answering you asap 🙂
Hi ,I do not think Swag Bucks is worth your time or energy.
In fact I think it is a waste of time. You can make about 1-2 cents per hour with these types of sites.
You are better off finding a smarter way of making money. Life is to short to be spent making penny’s per hour.
That is my respectful opinion.
I totally agree with you Jake!
In many cases, making money with Swagbucks would be meaningless, especially when you remember that you need to pay for the internet bill or for the electricity for your laptop or phone.
There are many other ways that you can make money online better than just taking surveys or watching videos, like the method I explained in my Ultimate Make Money Online Guide for example.
Build a business and stop working for others!
Amjad
Great article! I have tried Swagbucks before, and I can totally agree that it is not an ideal way to make money online. Particularly, if you don’t live in the U.S., options are very limited, at least when it comes to the surveys. I can attest to that.
Thank you Ed for your feedback!
Indeed, doing surveys online and other ways available at Swagbucks might not make you a lot of money even if you were in US, then how about being in a different country.
And in general, these ways are unsustainable in generating income that you can really make a living with, and that’s why I recommended an alternative to Swagbucks in my Make Money Guide in the last section of my article.
Amjad