| Rate Basis | |
| Most
sites pay on some sort of hourly usage or points basis.
Some pay a fixed rate per hour and some pay a rate based
on their ad revenues. Currently the fixed rate sites
usually pay a higher rate. The sites that pay based on ad
revenues potentially could end up paying more than the
fixed rate sites. To do that they will have to have
enough users that they can charge more for their ads.
While fixed rate sites might change their rates from time
to time the ones most likely to stay in business will
have to be conservative with their payout rate. If they
fix it so high that their ad revenues don't cover their
payouts and expenses they won't stay in business long. Of
course the same could happen to a revenue based payout
site. If their payout percentage uses up too much of
their revenue they might not be able to cover expenses
which means they could go broke. The payout rate is shown
for sites that list it. Where a recent actual per hour payout rate is known it is shown in parenthesis. |