How Much Can You Expect to Earn?

offers a wide variety of ways to earn rewards, each with its own unique characteristics. The rankings below are based on factors such as earning potential and effort required, as well as our preferences.

1. Signup offers. Swagbucks’ “Discover” section features lucrative offers to try new products and services, mostly from finance companies like online banks and investment platforms. These offers usually pay between $30 and $100, but sometimes more.
2. Money makers. These are some of the quickest ways to make money on Swagbucks, but they require follow-through. For example, I earned $18 in SBs by signing up for a Hulu free trial and paying for one month of the service for $7.99. I earned more Swagbucks than I spent, and got to catch up with a show I wanted to watch on Hulu. But you have to remember to cancel before you’re charged for a second month, or you won’t end up actually making a profit. 
3. Cash-back shopping. Great potential to rack up SBs quickly. Swagbucks has a wide array of participating retailers, making it easy to save money on the items you were already going to buy. Plus, they offer great limited-time promotions (i.e., extra cash-back). For the best results, install the Swagbucks browser extension, which lets you earn cash-back on your purchases with just one click. 
4. Booking travel. Limited-time deals often go up to 12% cash-back for major hotel chains.
5. In-store cash-back. Swagbucks “Magic Receipts” feature allows you to earn rewards for in-store shopping trips by uploading a picture of your receipt. Some offers are valid at all stores, while others are store-specific.
6. Buying gift cards. While it may seem counterintuitive to buy gift cards to earn points that you’ll redeem for gift cards, don’t overlook this strategy! Swagbucks has its own online store that offers major-chain gift cards at significant discounts, and you can often stack those with other offers.
7. Surveys. Swagbucks’ pay rate for surveys is good but not the highest in the industry. They do have a reasonably large inventory, which means there’s usually surveys available, but disqualifications are common.
8. Dining deals. Swagbucks offers a small selection of restaurants, including independent and large chains, where you can link your credit card and automatically earn cash-back when you pay. Most restaurants give 4% cash-back.
9. Daily poll. This only takes one second, but it’s also only worth one SB.
10. Playing games. There are only a handful of free games, and they pay a maximum of a few cents per day. There are numerous mobile game offers where you can earn significant SBs for reaching in-game milestones, but this can take a very long time and often requires making in-game purchases. 
11. Searching. You can only get paid if you use the search engine within Swagbucks, and the payouts are random and small (often just a few cents each).