What Do Mystery Shopping Assignments Pay? (Ask The Coach)

Question:

How much can I make for each mystery shopping job assignment?

Answer From Coach Melanie:

If you do higher-paying service category shops (such as apartments, home builders, car dealers, testing centers, gyms, oil changes, banks), you can typically make between $20 and $40 per assignment, or a dinner restaurant shop can pay $35-$100 in free food/drinks. Some of the newer technology-based shops that involve the use of hidden video equipment during the job can pay as much as $100!

Retail assignments typically pay less ($7 to $15), although a "purchase and return shop" can get you up to $25. Fast food shops pay the least--often just free food and possibly a $5 report fee. Shop fees earned vary depending upon where you live, market demand and how urgent the job is.

An assignment can take as little as a half hour of your time including filling out a report, to two hours. The more you are asked to do, the more the assignment pays. If you focus on the highest-paying assignments, make the right connections and create a system where you get the jobs coming to you, you'll become a top-earning mystery shopper.

Have a great day and happy shopping!

Taking the mystery out of professional mystery shopping--Melanie Jordan http://www.mysteryshoppercoach.com

Copyright 2005 Melanie R. Jordan E-Publishing