Although there are some survey companies who only offer their members the chance to win a prize, most offer gift cards or cash payments.

Cash is paid via cheque or by PayPal. Here can find a list of surveys that pay cash and specifically, surveys that pay via PayPal.

Follow the link to get a list of surveys for gift cards.

Or, if you’d like an easy comparison tool where you can get a list of survey companies and what they specifically they reward their members with, check out our surveys worksheet.

In terms of what you will receive when you specifically answer a survey, this is always stated in the survey invitation email. It will say something like “if you complete this survey, you will receive x points or x amount of dollars”. If points is the incentive, by knowing you can exchange your points for cash payments, giftcards, etc. this will help you know exactly what your ultimate reward will be for completing the survey.

To join Ipsos Canada, you must 18 years of age or older. However if you are looking for survey companies open to younger Canadians, you may wish to take a look at our Canadian Teen Surveys page.

Ipsos Canada offers its members the opportunity to redeem their points for cash and yes, this is issued to their members in the form of an authorized cheque which is mailed.

Your income from online surveys is taxable the same way any other income you earn. Because you would not be employee of a survey company when you take surveys, you would not be issued a T4 at the end of the year. You would simply be responsible for tallying up your earnings and reporting them on line 104 of your personal income tax return entitled “Other Income”.

You do not need to provide a survey company with your Social Insurance Number because you would not be an employee. Your SIN is something you should guard closely and is never something a reputable survey company would ask you for.

In fact, all of the survey companies listed on our website are 100% free to join. For a complete listing, check out our surveys list.

PayPal is essentially a service that makes it easy for people to send and receive money. Users can withdraw or add funds from PayPal to their bank accounts and use it to process credit card transactions as well. It’s a service that is highly reputable, highly secure and is one of the oldest methods of transferring money online.

You do need a PayPal account in order to receive cash to the account. It’s free to sign up and you can do so at: http://www.paypal.com.

When survey companies pay their members via PayPal, the vast majority of the time, you will not be charged anything to receive the payment. Only when the survey company uses a credit card to transfer the money to you (very rare), will you be charged a fee which would be deducted from the cash transfer itself. Once you receive a payment, you may then use your PayPal account balance to pay for things online, or you may transfer the cash balance to your bank account.

Survey takers in general tend to prefer PayPal as a payment method because it is convenient, easy to use, and it typically takes less time on the survey company’s end, to process a PayPal payment than it does a cheque. Also, once you receive a PayPal payment, you may use/transfer your balance right away – there’s no need to wait for anything to clear, as you have access to the funds immediately.

How do the Paypal cash payments work? Do I need a paypal account? Will I be charged any fees for receiving a paypal cash payment?