7 Ways People Make Extra Money After Work, and How Each One Works

7. Shop and deliver grocery orders in batches

One short website test takes five to seven minutes, and tests can come on any day of the week. Here are seven side gigs people fit around a day job, and how each one works. Number seven: shop and deliver grocery orders in batches. You must be eighteen or older, eligible to work where you live, and have access to a vehicle.

On Instacart, you shop only the orders you want, and you check out with your Instacart payment card. Orders come in batches that can include up to four customer orders. A batch can mix shop-and-deliver, shop-only and deliver-only orders. Before you accept, you see the pay, the store, the delivery distance and the number of items.

You can view the batch details before accepting, and you are never penalized for not accepting. If a batch isn't for you, you can also hide it. Batch pay reflects the expected effort: travel, the quantity and weight of items, and expected shopping time. The pay you see up front never decreases when you complete the batch as accepted.

Heavy pay, on qualifying batches with several heavy items, is always at least $2. Some stores need an activated physical payment card, so their batches go only to shoppers who activated one. Shoppers always get 100% of the tips customers give. If more than one shopper fulfills a batch, the tip is split evenly between them.

By our count, a twelve-dollar tip on a batch shared by two shoppers comes to $6 each. That is twelve divided evenly between the two shoppers who fulfilled the batch. You need access to a vehicle for deliveries, and the platform works only where it operates. Work rules can differ where you live.

6. Do local tasks for people nearby

Number six: do local tasks for people nearby. Creating an Airtasker account is free, and the service fee only applies once you are assigned. On Airtasker, you sign up through the website or the app, and you must be eighteen or older. Then you look for tasks whose location and date fit your evenings and weekends.

Before making an offer, you review the task's requirements, location and date. The public comments let you clarify anything you need for an accurate price. Next comes the offer: your total price, plus a description of up to 1,500 characters. That description explains what your offer includes and how you will complete the task.

Your offer must cover the full scope of the task, including costs such as travel, fuel, tolls and equipment use. Your offer price is not your take-home payment, because the service fee is deducted from the task payment. When a customer assigns you, their payment is held in Airtasker Pay. After you finish, you request payment, the customer releases it, and it should arrive within three to five business days after release.

When you make an offer, the screen shows the full breakdown of the service fee, including any tax. After the customer releases payment, you receive the task payment minus that fee. By our count, a payment released on a Monday should arrive between Thursday and the following Monday. Three business days after Monday is Thursday, and five business days skip the weekend to the next Monday.

You also need the right to work in the place where you complete tasks. Fees and taxes can differ where you live. If guides like this help you, subscribe: every step in this video comes from each platform's own official pages, linked below.

5. Narrate audiobooks for authors who want them

Number five: narrate audiobooks for authors who want them. The author or publisher, called the rights holder, must approve the full audiobook before you are paid. On ACX, authors who want audiobooks connect with narrators and studios. Your profile shows your background and experience, along with vocal samples that show your range.

You search for projects, and when one fits, you record and submit an audition. Authors give notes about what they want in the audition. As the narrator, you're responsible for the finished audio, from recording to mastering. A quiet recording space is part of what you need before you start.

The rights holder makes an offer with a per-finished-hour rate, or Royalty Share. Rights holders are asked to set a deadline that leaves time to review the first fifteen minutes, and for corrections. Up to two sets of revisions may be requested, and the full audiobook must be approved before payment. A per-finished-hour rate pays once the audiobook is approved, while Royalty Share splits royalties with the rights holder, paid monthly for seven years.

The page's total estimate is 6.2 hours of work per finished hour of audiobook. That is about two hours to record, three to edit and 1.2 to review each finished hour. By our count, a five-hour audiobook at 6.2 hours per finished hour comes to about thirty-one hours of work. That is five finished hours multiplied by 6.2 hours each.

Residency in a place where ACX operates is required, plus a local tax number and banking details there. Availability depends on where you live.

4. Rent out your space by the hour

Number four: rent out your space by the hour. Listing a space is free, with no membership fees, and you set a base price for it. On Peerspace, you build a host profile: full name, verified phone number and email, and a friendly photo. All bookings and payments take place on Peerspace.

Some spaces aren't allowed, such as overnight accommodations and spaces already listed for rent or for sale. Hosts meet the listing requirements before Peerspace sets a space live for guests to book. Every listing has a base price, typically an hourly rate. Hosts may also set a minimum number of hours, plus different prices by activity, attendees, and day and time.

A booking request shows the date, the duration, the number of attendees, the activity and any special requests. Accepting it confirms the booking and charges the guest. The service fee is 20% of the booking amount. The fee also applies to any extra fees you charge the guest, such as cleaning.

Your payout is processed within seven days of the date the booking takes place. The payout is the booking amount minus the Peerspace service fee. By our count, a four-hour booking at $50 an hour comes to $200. After the 20% fee, that leaves $160, because 20% of 200 is forty.

Overnight stays and spaces listed for rent aren't allowed, and every booking stays on the platform. Space rules can differ where you live. That's past the halfway mark: grocery batches, local tasks, audiobooks and space rentals so far. The last three cover website tests, English lessons and stock photos, with the best last.

3. Test websites and apps, thinking out loud

Number three: test websites and apps, thinking out loud. Testing is in English, French or German, and you must be at least eighteen. On UserTesting, you connect with companies that want to improve the experience of their products. During a test, you might answer survey questions, complete tasks while recording yourself thinking out loud, or meet a researcher.

To apply, you confirm your email, set up a payout account, create your profile and take a practice test. The practice test itself isn't paid, and you take it before any paid tests. For the practice test, you find a quiet place, check that your microphone works and confirm a stable connection. On a phone, the practice test tips include a battery charged to at least 20%.

If your application isn't successful, you can reapply, but only once. Each test pays differently by type, duration and customer demand, so the amounts vary. You always see the pay up front, before you decide whether to accept a test. On average, most contributors take one or two tests per week, and short tests take five to seven minutes.

A test can come at any time, on any day of the week. Customers can rate your feedback, and your average rating affects how many test invitations you receive. Payment usually arrives fourteen days after you complete the test. That is the usual wait, though the pay itself differs by test.

By our count, a test finished on the third of a month usually pays out around the seventeenth. That date is the third plus the usual fourteen days. You get one chance to reapply, the practice test pays nothing, and each paid test pays differently. Supported locations can differ where you live.

2. Give English conversation lessons to students online

Number two: give English conversation lessons to students online. Tutors must be native English speakers and at least eighteen. On Cambly, English students connect with tutors, and you apply to become one. A teaching certificate or teaching experience isn't required to apply.

You apply on a laptop or desktop computer, not on a phone or tablet. Your profile needs a connection test and a one-to-three-minute introduction video. Tutors are paid per minute of lesson time, and the rate depends on which platform you teach on. Cambly Kids pays twenty cents a minute, or $12 an hour.

Payments are processed every Tuesday for the previous payment period. Tutors can choose to be paid every one, two or four weeks. You open reservation times when you're free, and students can reserve lessons from fifteen minutes to two hours. Cameras stay on, and a late reserved student still means up to ten minutes of paid waiting.

Seventeen cents a minute is the pay for lesson time on the main platform. That comes to $10 and twenty cents an hour for lessons. By our count, a thirty-minute lesson at seventeen cents a minute comes to $5 and ten cents. That is thirty minutes of lesson time multiplied by seventeen cents a minute.

Only native English speakers can tutor, and a few places aren't supported because of local rules. Tutoring rules can differ where you live.

1. License your photos and videos as stock content

Number one: license your photos and videos as stock content. Your work must be original, and you must own its copyright. On Shutterstock, you sign up for a free contributor account. You must be at least eighteen to submit your work.

Work that features models or private property and is meant for commercial licensing needs a release. Shutterstock also has restrictions on what it can accept, especially for commercial licensing. Reviewers check each submission, and accepted work is published in your portfolio within seventy-two hours of approval. Each time a customer downloads your work, they buy a license.

You receive a percentage of the price Shutterstock receives for each license. There are six levels for images and six for videos, from 15% up to 40%. Each month, payments are calculated at the start and issued by the fifteenth. You set the minimum payout in your account, and payment needs your balance to reach it, plus an approved tax form on file.

15% is the first level, where every contributor starts each year. Levels are reached by your download count in each category, separately for images and videos. By our count, a ten-dollar license pays $1 and fifty cents at 15%. At 40%, the same license pays $4, which is the top level.

Levels restart every January, and work with models or private property needs a release. Payout options can differ where you live. So, seven side gigs: Instacart for grocery batches, Airtasker for local tasks, ACX for audiobooks and Peerspace for spaces. Then UserTesting for website tests, Cambly for English lessons and Shutterstock for stock photos.

Rules and availability differ where you live. So open the platform's own help page first, and see what it asks for in your area. Which one fits your evenings and weekends? Tell us the number in the comments.

Results vary, and this is information only, not financial advice. This is Wealth Filings. Next, more side gigs and how each one works, linked on screen.