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Are you conducting user interviews or research studies? Our User Research Incentive Calculator helps you determine fair and competitive participant compensation based on study type, duration, participant hourly rate, urgency, and audience difficulty.
Our formula calculates the incentive amount using:
Incentives are just one piece of running great user interviews—explore our 17 Essential UX Research Tools Organized by Phase to see what else belongs in your research stack. And when you're ready to run interviews at scale without the coordination overhead, Usercall's AI-moderated interview platform handles recruitment, moderation, and synthesis so your team can focus on the insights.
Getting your incentive right is only half the equation—you also need questions that make the interview worth showing up for. Browse our full library of user interview questions to build a question set that gets honest, useful answers every time. If you want to run interviews at scale without the coordination overhead, Usercall handles recruitment, scheduling, and AI-assisted analysis so you can focus on the insights.
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