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Grubhub publishes no national hourly figure, no per-order average, and no earnings range anywhere on its own driver site. The only dollar pay figures it prints are the legal minimums in Seattle and California. This page must not invent an hourly number.
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Grubhub's own Seattle page is out of date as of 2026-09-02: it prints $0.44 per minute, $0.74 per mile and a $5 per-offer floor, which are Seattle's 2024 rates. The Office of Labor Standards lists $0.47, $0.80 and $5.34 for 2026 (F6, F7, F8). Not known whether Grubhub actually pays the current rate and only the page is stale, or whether pay is also behind. Worth a re-check before publishing.
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Same gap in California: Grubhub's Prop 22 page prints $0.34 per mile, which was the 2023 rate. The State Treasurer publishes $0.37 for 2026 (F13).
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The NYC $22.13 rate on the DCWP page is for restaurant delivery apps. DCWP now separates restaurant, grocery and other delivery apps into different notices, and it is not verified here whether the same figure applies to all three.
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Grubhub does not publish what its 'minimum guaranteed rate for your local market' (F3) is worth in dollars in any market, nor the Offer Commitment Rate you have to hit to qualify. Unverifiable from outside the app.
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Grubhub does not publish which markets are currently waitlisted (F23). A reader cannot tell before applying whether their town is open.
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No source found on Grubhub's site for what the background check screens for or how far back it looks.
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OQ1: Mercari publishes no figure at all for what a typical seller earns per sale, per week or per month. Its own Gross Sales Report is per-seller data shown only to that seller. No income claim can be made on this page beyond the fee arithmetic.
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OQ2: Mercari contradicts itself on shipping savings. The fee page says an average of 54% off retail carrier rates [F20]; the How It Works page says up to 40% [F21]. Both are Mercari's own pages, checked the same day. Neither number should be printed as the number.
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OQ3: Mercari contradicts itself on the prepaid label weight ceiling. The Shipping for Sellers guide says under 50 lbs [F36]; the fee page says up to 100 lbs [F37]. Do not print either as settled.
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OQ4: Mercari does not publish any new-seller payout hold, waiting period, or first-sale reserve. The closest published statement is a general right to limit an account or its funds on suspicious activity [F26]. Silence here is unknown, not no. Widely repeated third-party claims about first-payout holds were not found on any Mercari page and are not recorded.
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OQ5: The help center articles at /article/91/ (When do I get paid?) and /article/195/ (Why is my payout on hold?) render no body text to a plain fetch, so the payout-hold question could not be answered at its own dedicated page. The facts above come from the pages that do render.
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OQ6: Mercari does not publish how long a typical item takes to sell, or what share of listings sell at all. No sell-through rate exists here.
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OQ7: The $4.91 cheapest label [F18] is a cell in the Current 2026 Shipping Rates table and is for a 0.25 lb USPS Ground Advantage package only. Anything heavier costs more, and the rates rose on 7 May 2026 for a USPS fuel surcharge [F19], so this figure moves.
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OQ8: Mercari does not publish a federal 1099-K dollar threshold on its own tax page; it says only that the IRS sets one [F33]. The current threshold must be taken from the IRS, not from Mercari, and was not checked in this pass.
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OQ9: Whether Mercari charges the 10% selling fee on sales tax as well as item price and shipping is not stated on the fee page. eBay states it does; Mercari does not say either way.
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OQ10: eBay was checked first and rejected. eBay's own fee page publishes clear final value fee percentages, but www.ebay.com began returning a bot-check page with HTTP 200 and zero body text after two requests, so no eBay quote can be machine re-verified by scripts/facts-check.mjs. Poshmark was checked second and rejected: its fee numbers live only in a Salesforce-rendered help center that serves no text to a plain fetch, and no poshmark.com static page publishes the commission.
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Prolific publishes a minimum and a recommended hourly rate, but does not publish what participants actually earn per hour on average. No real-world hourly figure goes on the page until a sourced one exists.
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Prolific does not publish how many studies a typical participant is offered per week or per month, so no monthly income figure can be sourced.
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The waitlist wait time is unpublished by design; Prolific states it is not a queue and gives no expected wait.
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Whether the US country list still holds is checked from the eligibility article only; the full country table was not transcribed here.
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The £0.10/$0.14 screen-out minimum applies to the newer screener version only. Prolific says both versions are live and participants cannot tell which a study uses, so the effective floor for a screen-out is unknown.
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Prolific's platform fee (42.8% corporate, 33.3% academic) is charged to the researcher on top of the reward, not deducted from the participant. Confirmed on the pricing page but not recorded as a participant-facing fact.
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Whether PayPal itself charges the participant a fee to receive or withdraw funds is not stated by Prolific and is not recorded here.
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Cambly never states what a tutor actually takes home in a week or a month. It publishes a rate ($0.17 and $0.20 a minute, F1, F2, F4) and nothing about how many minutes a real tutor gets. Do not print an average or a monthly figure for this gig. The $10.20 and $12 hourly numbers are Cambly's own arithmetic on a full 60 paid minutes, not an observed wage.
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Time spent logged in and visible waiting for a call: Cambly does not say anywhere I could find that it is unpaid, and it does not say it is paid. What it does say is that pay is per minute of completed lesson time (F3), that a Priority Hour carries a floor of only 15 paid minutes even with no student at all (F6, F7), and that waiting past the 5-minute disconnection cap is unpaid in its own word (F10). The 15-minute floor is the tell: a full hour committed to Cambly can pay $2.55. Write the waiting problem from F3, F6, F7 and F10. Do not assert 'waiting is unpaid' as a Cambly statement, because Cambly never writes that sentence.
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Cambly's public tutor page and its tutor help center disagree about how you get paid. The landing page says weekly pay by direct deposit (F15). The help center says pay is processed on Tuesdays, the tutor chooses a 1, 2 or 4 week cycle, and the methods are Stripe Connect, Stripe Global Payouts or PayPal, with PayPal ending 2026-11-11 (F13, F14, F16, F17). Use the help center. The landing page is a simplification.
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No third-party earnings source could be verified. Indeed and Glassdoor both returned HTTP 403 to our fetcher on 2026-09-02. Reddit is off limits by the constitution. So there is no independent check on the platform's rate and no data at all on real hours filled.
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Background check: unknown, not no. Cambly's tutor policy article mentions identity verification as part of approval (F43) and its safety article states Cambly does not run background checks on students, but no Cambly page I read says whether a criminal background check is run on tutors. Silence, not a denial.
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Cambly gives no timeline for an application decision and explicitly warns you may hear nothing back (F46). Combined with the intake limit (F44) and the slower processing notice (F45), the honest framing is that applying is free but the wait is open-ended and the answer may be silence. F44, F45 and F46 expire 2026-10-02 and must be re-read before the page repeats them.
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Cambly's own pages give two different minimum internet speeds. The tutor guide and the tutor FAQ say 10 Mbps down and 3 Mbps up (F36). The Technical Setup article separately says the video system needs 3 Mbps down and 2 Mbps up. Both are Cambly. Quote the higher pair.
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Country eligibility is only half published. Cambly says tutors live all over the world (F30) and names three barred US states (F27, F28), but publishes no list of supported countries and says it is constantly re-evaluating which jurisdictions it can support. It also says payment options vary by location and some places have only one (F21). So 'can I do this from my country' cannot be answered from Cambly's pages. Say so.
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Whether Cambly Kids has extra requirements beyond the second application (F5) is not published. The kids guide and the kids FAQ describe the work but no separate eligibility bar, no child-safety screening step and no approval criteria.
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Verification note for the reviewer: 37 of these 49 facts sit on support.cambly.com, the tutor help center, which returns HTTP 403 to every non-browser user agent including ours and including a spoofed Chrome one. facts-check --verify-sources therefore reports 'could not re-read' for all 37 rather than confirming the quote. All 37 were re-checked on 2026-09-02 in a real browser against document.body.innerText on the live page, using the same normalisation facts-check uses, and all 37 matched. The 12 facts on www.cambly.com and studentsupport.cambly.com verify automatically. A human reader with a browser sees these pages normally, so the source URLs are the right ones to print.
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Outschool publishes no average hourly figure on its own site. The only dollar number it publishes is the recommended class price of $18-21 per learner per hour (F3). Real take-home is that price, times learners enrolled, times 0.70, minus the unpaid hours spent writing, listing and marketing the class. Do not print an hourly wage for this gig.
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The two Outschool pages disagree on payout timing for fixed-length classes: 7-13 days on the Prospective Educator FAQ (F7) and 7-10 days on the New Teacher FAQ (F8). Both are Outschool pages. Say 7-13 days, the longer of the two, or say both.
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How many learners a typical new teacher enrolls in a first class is not published by Outschool. Without it, no honest earnings example can be built. Needs a sourced third party or it stays out.
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The PayPal-to-Stripe payout move (F10, F11) has no published completion date and Outschool says the timing is tentative. This fact expires 2026-10-02 and must be re-read before it is repeated.
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Whether Outschool is currently accepting new educator applications is not stated on any page checked. Unknown, not open, not closed.
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Marketplace Fee: Outschool charges parents an extra fee on top of the class price. Whether that raises the price families see, and so lowers enrollments, is not something Outschool quantifies anywhere checked.
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What the $1.75 figure actually refers to is not stated in the hero block. The hero says only 'per minute'. The page's FAQ elsewhere says pay is per audio minute, so per audio minute is the likely reading, but GoTranscript never joins the two statements on the page.
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The $1.75 headline does not match the page's own embedded rate table: no language in that table is priced at $1.75, the top listed rate is $2.38 (Japanese) and the bottom is $0.20 (Spanish). Where $1.75 comes from is unexplained.
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The rate table lives in a script block, so it cannot be quoted through the quote verifier. Someone should confirm the English $0.65 figure by opening the page in a browser and reading the earnings calculator, or by viewing source and searching rate_per_minute.
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No GoTranscript page states how many minutes of work a beginner needs per audio minute. The third-party average of $0.60 per audio minute (F7) and the third-party hourly average of $4.50 (F8) imply roughly 7 to 8 audio minutes finished per hour, which implies about 8 minutes of work per audio minute, but that is arithmetic on a 9-review sample, not a sourced ratio. Do not print a work-time ratio unless a better source is found.
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The jobs page contains both 'hiring is fully open' and 'We are currently not accepting new transcribers' in its served HTML. The second looks like a conditional state that the language picker switches on, but which one a real applicant sees, and for which languages, was not confirmed. Re-check before publishing and again in 30 days.
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Whether new transcribers start at the published language rate or at a lower probation rate is not stated anywhere on GoTranscript's pages.
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GoTranscript does not publish a payment threshold or a per-payout fee. The no-minimum and 0-9 day payout figures (F13, F14) are third-party only.
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The 18-plus rule was found in the end-user agreement on the privacy page, which is written for customers. Whether the same clause binds transcriber contractors specifically was not confirmed.
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Independent GoTranscript worker pay data is thin. Glassdoor and sidehustles.com both appeared in search results but sidehustles.com returned HTTP 403 to our fetcher and was not read.
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Tax treatment, contractor status paperwork, and whether US workers get a 1099 were not found on any GoTranscript page.
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Rev does not publish an hourly figure anywhere we could find. This site will not invent one, because the honest unit here is pay per audio minute.
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Rev does not publish the typing speed needed to reach a given hourly rate. Until a source does, that number stays off this page.
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How long the waitlist runs is not published.
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Wait lists are set by each state grantee and are not published in one place. A local call is the only way to learn the wait.
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Whether SCSEP pay changes a reader's own benefits is a question for the Social Security Administration. This site does not answer it.
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The $75-$300 pay range covers only the eight places checked on 2026-09-02: New Jersey, New York City, Clark County NV, Cuyahoga County OH, South Carolina, Maricopa County AZ, and Miami-Dade County FL. It is not a national range. There are over 3,000 counties and thousands of townships and cities that run their own elections, and most of them are smaller and pay less than the large jurisdictions that publish rates clearly. A reader's own county rate could be below $75 or above $300.
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Maricopa County publishes an hourly rate ($15.15) rather than a day rate [F27], so its figure cannot be placed on the same scale as the flat day rates without multiplying by hours, which no source does. It is excluded from the range.
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The Maricopa County server rate-limits: it returned HTTP 403 on two consecutive re-reads on 2026-09-02 before verifying cleanly on the third. Facts F27 to F30 are sound, but a future verification run that reports 403 on that URL is hitting the rate limit, not a dead page. Retry before treating it as gone.
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Miami-Dade County publishes its actual dollar amounts only in a PDF pay chart, which this file does not quote. The county page confirms a stipend is paid by position [F31] but not how much.
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Los Angeles County was checked and its election worker pages did not return readable text to the fetcher, so no LA County figure is recorded here. Chicago's Board of Elections returned HTTP 403. Both should be retried by hand before the page claims anything about them.
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The IRS page states a federal FICA threshold of $2,000 'from January 1, 2021, to present, adjusted for inflation' but does not print the adjusted figure for 2026. The current-year threshold is not recorded here and should not be stated on the page.
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Whether an employer or a benefits program treats one day of poll work as income that affects a reader's benefits is not answered by any source read here. It is a question for the agency paying the benefit.
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Training length, whether training is online or in person, and whether the training stipend is paid separately or with the day rate vary by jurisdiction and were only confirmed for New York City [F11], Clark County [F15] and South Carolina [F24].
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Rates change election by election. Every figure here was read on 2026-09-02 and should be re-read before the November 3, 2026 general election.