It’s easy to join the Survey Diem panel. Just download the app to your smartphone, open the app, and complete the registration process within the app.

Note that in order to provide the best quality panel to our clients, we require all panelists to be located in the US (no VPNs!) and to scan a valid US state-issued ID in order to complete registration. Valid IDs include driver’s licenses and state-issued identity cards.

You will also be asked to share some demographic information that will ensure we only send you surveys that are relevant to you.

Survey Diem never provides clients with data that could identify you as a respondent, such as your name, address, or email address. We only provide demographic and select psychographic data to help our clients understand the different types of consumers in their market.

Yes. Some commentors in online forums claim that some survey apps or panels are scams because it is hard to qualify for surveys or because they have not been paid what they earned.

At Survey Diem, you will always receive credit for completed surveys unless a client has flagged your response as fraudulent. Once you receive credit in the form of points, it is easy to cash out by applying points to a PayPal payment (i.e., having real money sent to your PayPal account).

We will never invite you to complete surveys we know you are not eligible to complete based on the demographic info we collect in the registration process. There are many cases, however, in which our client must use screening questions to administer the survey only to qualified participants. If you attempt a survey and are screened out, you will still receive 10 points (equivalent to $0.10).

Survey Diem has the demographic information you provided when you registered for the panel and which you update or confirm on a regular basis, along with psychographic information you may occasionally provide through additional profile surveys.

If a client wants to survey women that live in Missouri, we will only invite panelists that we know meet that description.

If the client wants to survey panelists that have purchased a car in the last year, we would invite all panelists to the survey and then there would be at least one screening question as part of the survey.

If you attempt to complete a survey but get screened out, you will still get 10 points for your effort and you will be eligible for more survey invitations that day.

That depends on how many surveys you qualify for and complete. If you complete a survey, you will receive at least 100 points ($1). You will only receive compensation if you complete the survey.

When you complete a paid survey, you will receive at least 100 points for the first minute plus up to 16 points for each minute of estimated survey length after that. If the survey is estimated to be 10 minutes long, you could receive up to 256 points.

Note also that incentives are based on estimated survey length and not adjusted based on how long you actually spent completing the survey. A consumer survey with an estimated length of 10 minutes pays $2.56, even if you spent 12 minutes completing it. Do not rush to complete surveys though. You could be flagged for speeding and lose your incentive.

You will also receive 10 points ($0.10) for every survey you attempt to complete but are screened out of.

There is no limit on the number of surveys you can attempt in one day.

Say, for example, you get screened out of the first three surveys you attempt to complete and are able to complete the fourth one, which is estimated at 15 minutes in length. Your total earnings for the day would be 366 points, equivalent to $3.66.

Let’s say you complete one 15-minute survey a day. You could make more than $1,200 a year.

Note that there is no guarantee you will be invited to complete a survey every day or on any particular day.

Note also that if you receive $600 or more in survey incentives from Survey Diem in a calendar year, we will be required by federal law to report your earnings to the IRS.

Survey Diem offers a variety of activities to keep panelists engaged, including weekly trivia quizzes, opinion polls, and personality tests. These activities will always be labeled as offering 0 points so you know that you are not taking a paid survey. You may complete as many of these activities as you like. These surveys are generally just for entertainment, though some psychographic information that you provide could be used to help identify you for new paid survey opportunities or could be appended to your anonymous respondent profile for a paid survey.

Your account will be credited at the completion of the survey in the amount promised in your survey invitation. The points you receive for completing surveys can be converted to cash in PayPal within the Survey Diem app. You must have a PayPal account to convert your earnings to cash. The email for the PayPal account must be the same as your Survey Diem username/email address.

Payouts are processed 30 days from the time of a redemption request. So, for example, if you have earned 500 points and request a $5 PayPal payout on October 1, that payout will be processed on October 30.

Your account credits may be adjusted if our client flags your survey response for quality issues. Examples of quality issues include speeding through the survey, answering every question the same way, not following directions, and providing inconsistent or highly unlikely responses. If our client rejects your response due to quality concerns, we will deduct the incentive amount you already received from your account.

If you are flagged for quality issues across several surveys, you may be removed from the Survey Diem panel.

Our clients review all survey response data carefully and may reject some responses if they believe the respondent has not provided true and accurate information, has not completed the survey in good faith (for example, they have completed the survey in an unreasonably fast time), or if they have failed to follow instructions. 

When you complete a survey, you are automatically credited with points matching the incentive amount. If a client has flagged your response for quality issues, we may deduct the incentive amount from your points total. This is a process called “reconciliation.”

If you have questions about your point total, you may always contact info@surveydiem.com.

You can see your Quality Score and Reconciled Count, among other data by navigating to Settings and then Collected Data within the app.

All new panelists start with a Quality Score of 100. If a client flags your response to a survey for quality issues, you lose 20 points on your Quality Score. Depending on your Quality Score, you may not be invited to some surveys, and if there are continued quality issues with your responses, you may be removed from the Survey Diem panel.

Your Reconciled Count value is the number of times a client has flagged a survey response of yours for quality issues. You can only be flagged or “reconciled” once per survey (i.e., reconciliation is based on multiple factors per survey and not necessarily one response to one question).

The surveys can be any length, though we encourage clients to limit surveys to 10-15 minutes. The longer the survey, the more points you are rewarded, and the more the client has to pay.

A related question is, “Can I get in trouble for my opinion?”

You will never be asked questions that would put you at risk of harm. If you believe this has occurred, please contact info@surveydiem.com immediately.

Keep in mind that while surveys may ask you about your personal experiences, our clients will never receive information that identifies you or ties your identity to your response.

You have a right to stop a survey at any time by closing the app or returning to the app’s home screen.

For more information about your rights as a research participant, see https://www.insightsassociation.org/Resources/Data-Quality-Standards/Participant-Bill-of-Rights.

Note also that while we regularly offer fun personality tests as an engagement activity for panelists, we will never diagnose mental health conditions or offer mental health advice. If you feel uncomfortable with the questions on a survey at any time, please discontinue the survey.

No! We do not sell/license your data to any third parties. Our clients will only see your deidentified survey responses plus non-identifying information from your profile. Your survey responses will always remain anonymous.

You can view the data Survey Diem has stored about you by navigating to the Settings tab in the app and selecting the Collected Data link.

You may delete your account at any time. When you delete your account, we maintain your personal data for 90 days and your Survey Diem app activity data for up to one year.

For more information on data privacy, check out our Privacy Policy on our website or within the app.

You may quit the panel within the app at any time by navigating to the Settings tab and then clicking on the Delete Account button at the bottom.

You can also email info@surveydiem.com.

When you delete your account, we maintain your personal data for 90 days and your Survey Diem app activity data for up to one year.

You may delete your account data at any time by deleting your account. You may also request the removal of data by contacting info@surveydiem.com.

Note that Survey Diem often does not have access to deidentified survey response data, and such data will always have been provided to the client for the project. We are not able to change or delete survey responses after you have provided them.

We do not offer referral bonuses at this time.