Recommended hourly pay for research participants on the Prolific platform

$12

USD per hour of participant time, worldwide

“the minimum hourly rate of £6 / $8 (we recommend £9 / $12)”

Prolific, Payment principles, 2026-11

Kind of source
Vendor's published price
Read on
2026-11-06
Daily check
Quote found at the source on 2026-11-06
What to know
Recommended rate on the same page; the page is undated, so the date is the day it was read.

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Kept as evidence; no figure on the platform is computed from it yet.