5 Ways to Make Money Under 18

If you or your teens are anything like mine, they’re always wishing they had a little more cash to spend on all of those things teenagers need and want.

Teaching money management to children is very important as when I was a teen the only options for making cash was to get a job at a local store or fast food joint. Luckily, technology today has created an atmosphere where there are many more options for teens looking to make some extra cash.

The rise in entrepreneurial ventures has affected teens as well as adults, and there are several ways even those under the age of eighteen can get in on some different ways to bring in some cash besides working at the local pizza place.

Here are some of the more popular ways teens under eighteen are making money in their spare time.

Visit Reward Sites

Making money through reward sites is popular largely because people can do it on their own time schedule without having to make a place for a scheduled shift job that requires four or more hours of their time.

Reward sites cater to those with limited or chaotic schedules, allowing them to make money whenever and wherever they can. The four rewards sites listed here are some of the most commonly used.

1. Swagbucks

Swagbucks pays people money for doing quick and simple tasks. Some tasks include watching videos, playing games (a teen favorite), shopping online, answering surveys and more.

Swagbucks allows teens 13 and up to participate in activities for which they’re paid in points. Those points can then be used to buy gift cards to your favorite store, or can be transferred to your PayPal account for a cash out.

2. Cash Crate

Cash Crate also pays teens as young as 13 for participating in different activities. With Cash Crate, you can get paid to search the Net, to take surveys, to play games and more.

You won’t get rich earning rewards on sites such as this one, but it can help you earn a little extra cash in your spare time as opposed to just sitting there not earning cash.

3. InstaGC

InstaGC (stands for InstaGiftCard) is another rewards site available to people age thirteen and up. They’ll reward points for doing several different activities, including:

• Completing surveys

• Watching videos

• Shopping online

• Searching the Web

Earned points can be used to get free gift cards, get cash direct deposited into a bank account or get cash transferred to your PayPal account.

Tutoring

Do you like teaching others? If so, a job as a tutor might be right for you. There is at least one company that allows teens to sign up to tutor others.

4. Enroll

Enroll is a tutoring service where people as young as fifteen can sign up to be tutors to students of a variety of different ages for a variety of different subjects.

When you apply to Enroll to become a tutor, you share your personal information as well as the subjects you would like to teach.

It’s important to be super knowledgeable about the subjects you offer to teach for Enroll. As a tutor with Enroll, you’ll provide your first two tutoring sessions for free so that potential students can see what your teaching style is and whether or not it may be right for them.

After that, however, any lessons you teach are paid. You can also share lesson plan ideas, videos and other teaching tools on the site that you can sell to fellow tutors.

Share Your Opinion

There are several companies out there that pay teens (as young as 14-year-olds) money for giving their opinion via surveys and/or reviews. Here are a few of the most popular.

5. Survey Junkie

Survey Junkie is called “The most popular online spot to earn cash and rewards for sharing your thoughts.”

With Survey Junkie, you share your opinion on various surveys, and then are rewarded points for each survey you complete. Earned points can then be redeemed for free e-gift cards at popular stores such as Amazon or Target, or traded in for a cash deposit into your PayPal account.

You can take surveys on any device at any time, which makes it nice for earning cash during those wait times at the dentist office or between social events. This could be a great way to make a little cash in your spare time. Anyone thirteen or older can sign up.