I was recently introduced to Rachael Granby, the Director of Research at Wonder. Wonder is a personal research assistant that hires freelancers to help answer their client’s questions.
Freelance research positions are currently available at Wonder and Rachael took the time to answer some of the most common questions she gets.
If you’re looking for a flexible, part-time way to supplement your income this might be a good fit. Here’s what you need to know.
What is Wonder?
Wonder (askwonder.com) is a personal research assistant, helping people save time by getting detailed answers and resources delivered to their inboxes from a trusted network of freelance researchers.
The researchers at Wonder are highly skilled but choose not to work in an office setting full time. The researchers are comprised of stay at home parents, work at home parents, librarians, military spouses, and students.
What Does it Pay and What Type of Hours Can be Expected?
Each question at Wonder comes with different pricing. The pricing depends upon the turnaround time expected and how challenging the research will be.
As a researcher you get to choose which price points to accept and which requests you want to work on. You’ll be setting your own schedule and picking what you want to work on and how often. This means earnings vary across the board depending on what type of research you choose to do and how many hours you want to work.
You can log onto your dashboard to see available requests. A typical request takes 1-2 hours to complete.
The top researchers at Wonder earn up to $35+ per hour and make as much as $2K per month.
Payment is made via PayPal every two weeks.
There are also earning opportunities for researchers who want to review the work completed by others. This involves reading through someone else’s completed research to make sure it fully answered the client’s question, that it’s clear and well-presented, and that it follows Wonder’s formatting guidelines. Reviewers earn $1 for each review they complete.
What You Need to Become a Freelancer Researcher with Wonder
If you want to become a Wonder researcher the two most important attributes are excellent writing skills and the desire to learn. Rachel also states that creative problem solving skills may be needed in the event you can’t find direct answers to support the client’s request.
Rachel also recommends to read the application instructions thoroughly and be sure to use the correct formatting. Attention to detail is a must!
Wonder provides a resource center with information on answering requests and has a support center where researchers can ask each other for advice.
If you’re interested in becoming a freelance researcher or would like to apply for a position you can do so here: Askwonder.com/application
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I just tried to create an account there. It’s all VERY well organized and professional, but it does take quite a while to deliver the work (for my taste). For someone who’s more research oriented though, it’s a great place to work on.
Thanks for letting us know 🙂
I tried 3 different ways to sign up and each time it asked for my password, so I never got in
Thank you !!
I will definitely try this. Research was my most favourite part of my journalism training. It would be nice to put those skills to use.
Darn it, only for US citizens.
I just looked at their FAQ page and it says you don’t have to be a US citizen to apply.
I’ll see if I can find out for sure….
I tried to sign up but it will not let me add the profile picture so there for I cannot go any further with signing up. Thanks
I want to do the work but it’s not in my state.:(
I just wanted someone to know that there is a spelling error on this page. Center is spelled incorrectly.
I noticed that as well!
It’s fixed 🙂 Thanks.
The word ‘center’ and ‘centre’ have the same meaning. The only difference is the place in which the word is used. Now, if you wanted to speak like a British person, the proper word would be ‘centre’, while in America it is ‘center’.
Exactly!
British and American English are two different things with the same meaning.
Labor/Labour
Centre is the Queens English also used in Canada.
How about there for error? Therefore.
Attention to detail and excellent grammar is required for this work people!
Thanks for sharing this! I will for sure be checking this out!
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me too!
Center is spelled wrong on your page
Got it. Thanks!
Charging by the hour makes sense, but in my case I must put together a budget for research study and not sure how to do that.
Hi guys, I am not sure if you heard about Zursh. It is dedicated for freelance researchers and they just launched their reports platform where you can add your own your research reports. Also, budgets are much higher for customised research projects.
There are two ways to spell center /centre . It depends on your background. British spell it er Americans spell it re . Both are correct, it is just personal habit.
Sheila, it is spelled neither of those ways on this page. She has it as “cener”, just missing the “t”. And the American spelling should be used on an American website. I don’t think it’s personal preference.
Center is now fixed. Thanks 🙂
As a student who already conducts research assignments regularly and is even a certified writing tutor, This is a very good match for me.
I am very much interested but I am not from America, I am from India, is it possible???..
I am quite interested but the problem is.. I am from India, will it be possible for me to work here???..
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Thanks for the informative article, just wanted to ask if this open for global users or US only?
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Just tried to create an account but it’s telling me that my email isn’t in their system! Of course it isn’t.
I made my application to join wonder a while ago but upto now i havent gotten any response.Kindly management activate me into the dashboard