"Turkers are also poorly paid, although their hourly rate is difficult to calculate, in part because Amazon takes a cut of between 20% to 40%, and because Turkers undertake multiple tasks at once with break time. For the 6 years of accumulated effort in May, researchers doled out $164,882. That would seem to translate to an average pay rate of about $3 per hour, but “the true hourly rate is somewhere between $4 and $8 per hour,” Litman says."
It's nice to see this be acknowledged at least.