Oh geeze well that just made me sad instead! How do you guys DO that?? What am I not doing right!? I am slowly but surely increasing my max earnings but I am just talking about how at the end of 2015 i would max out everyday at around $15 and i could not for the life of me make more than that and now i have increased it so that I generally make around $40 a day! How the heck do you break a hundred!!!!!????? Tell me your secrets wise one....
I run PandaCrazy, MTS, and Overwatch to keep track of the requesters I like. I'll run PANDAs on any high paying survey, knowing that people often return them if they let them backburner in their queue too long. I keep an eye on MTS's HitFinder for any batches, and as the saying goes, "scared money don't make money", so I go for the no TO batches and difficult things. You can see I got a few rejects this past month - 6 of them were from a requester who had extremely poor directions and judgement, but the HITs paid $2 each so I took the risk (I think I got rejected on 6 out of 20).
The most important thing is to wake up early, and watch HitFinder. You'll pick up most of the good surveys that way. Also make sure to PANDA the things that pay well/you enjoy doing, especially if they're a regular poster. Also, pick up every single qualification you can when you get the chance - I think UserBob was one that was posting around today, and that was worth a pick up.
But yes, having Masters is a big help, and the closed quals I do have that still post are $. Picking up quals is super important, I can tell you that...