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What "3 in 10 get paid" means on a survey card
Most survey apps show a "match" or "completion" percentage supplied by the survey partner. Those numbers are often 90 to 100%, because the partner is describing how well your profile matches, not how many people got paid. On Bonusboy the card shows something stricter: how many of our own members who opened that kind of survey were actually paid.
The three layers of the calculation
- The partner's estimate. Each survey arrives with the partner's expected completion rate. We start from that number but never show it unchanged when we have better data.
- Partner-level correction. For every partner we count the surveys that came back with a result over the last 30 days: completed, screened out, or cancelled. If there are 30 or more, we multiply the partner's estimate by the share of those results that ended in a paid completion. Cancelled completions count as not paid. This usually lowers the partner's number a great deal, because a partner's estimate describes profile match, not payment.
- Country-level correction. If 20 or more results exist for your country with that partner, we use your country's share instead of the worldwide one. Members in a country where surveys complete more often see higher cards for the same surveys.
Surveys that were opened and simply abandoned are not counted. Two of our three partners never report screen-outs, so an unfinished survey could mean anything; counting it would punish partners that are honest about rejections.
Hiding instead of guessing
If a specific survey has been opened at least 8 times in the last 30 days by our members and nobody completed it, it disappears from the list. We would rather show fewer surveys than sell you a survey nobody has been paid for. The same rule applies at partner level: 30 attempts with no completion hides every survey from that partner and alerts us, because it usually means the connection is broken.
How to use it
- Sort by pass rate (the app can order the list that way) and start with the highest numbers.
- Combine it with length. A "4 in 10" survey of 3 minutes is usually a better use of ten minutes than a "2 in 10" survey of 20 minutes paying three times more.
- Treat it as weather, not a contract. Numbers refresh as results arrive, sometimes several times a day.
Where to see it
The number on each survey card is the live result for your country. It is recalculated as results arrive, so the same card can change during the day.
Quick answers
Why does the same survey show a different pass rate in another country?
Because the number is calculated from Bonusboy members in your country. Quotas and prices differ by country, so the same survey can be completed far more often in one country than in another, and is rated differently.
Can a survey show "0 in 10"?
No. If a survey has been tried at least 8 times in 30 days without a single completion we remove it from the list instead of showing a hopeless number. The lowest number we display is "1 in 10" with a warning that few people pass.
Is the pass rate a guarantee?
No. It is an estimate from past results and can change within a day. It is there to help you choose, not to promise a payment.
