How To Get Paid To Sleep: 10 Proven Jobs for 2023

Many of us get paid to work at a job that we don’t enjoy. It’s hard to get motivated when you’re not passionate about what you do for a living. Luckily, there is an easy way to get paid for something that doesn’t require much effort on your part: sleeping!

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How To Get Paid To Sleep: 10 Best Jobs

If you’re tired of being stuck in a dead-end job or are looking for a side gig, sleeping for a paycheck might be the perfect opportunity for you. If you want to get paid to sleep, here are 10 jobs to consider:

1. Industrial design — Sleep product tester

2. Market research — Hotel mystery shopper

3. Information technology — Technology pro

4. Personal services — Line sitter

5. Animal care — Overnight pet sitter

6. Marketing — Hotel blogger

7. Childcare and eldercare — Overnight caregiver

8. Interior design — Sleep executive

9. Diagnostic tests — Sleep research centers

10. Security services — Security guard

1. Sleep Product Tester

Companies sometimes pay people to test new products before they hit the market. Companies that publish sleep-related content will also pay testers.

Eachnight is one such company. It offers guides on mattresses, bedding and sleeping on its website. Eachnight pays up to $1,500 for testers who commit to napping for 30 days. Testers will have to record their nap reviews in the questionnaire provided. You can keep a tab on its website and grab an opportunity whenever it arises.

The Sleep Foundation has a whole team of editors and product research and testing professionals who review mattresses and other sleep-related products. If you have relevant experience, you could land a job next time the organization is hiring.

2. Hotel Mystery Shopper

As a hotel mystery shopper, you pose as a regular client and observe the quality of service, customer relations, comfort and other guest experiences. Sometimes you may have to spend some cash for your review to be legit. But, depending on the agreement, the company may reimburse all or a percentage of your expenses.

After your stay, you make a detailed and honest assessment of your experiences at the hotel. The management then uses this information to better their services.

The average pay for a hotel mystery shopper in the U.S. is about $18 per hour.

3. Technology Pro

Believe it or not, employees at tech giants Meta and Google can slip into “nap pods” when they need a few winks during the workday. While corporate interest in facilitating naps has fallen off since the pandemic, a London-based consulting group called ProNappers has worked with 20 companies, including Deutsche Bank, according to Fast Company.

4. Line Sitter

If you’re the kind of person who can sleep anywhere, then working as a line sitter can be a good option. This job involves waiting in long lines for events on behalf of people who find it hard to stand or don’t have time to do so. You might be tasked to wait for a new smartphone or game launch or to secure tickets to concerts and Broadway shows.

With line sitting, the pay varies depending on many factors such as wait time, location and purpose. A line-sitting company called Same Ole Line, pays $25 per hour, with a two-hour minimum.

5. Overnight Pet Sitter

Working as an overnight pet sitter is one way people can pay you to sleep at your home or theirs.

You can create a profile as an overnight pet caregiver at Rover.com or via the Rover app. People will pay you either for a single night or several nights to stay with their pets until their return. On average, you can charge between $30 to $70 per night — or as much as $100 if you’re CPR certified — which works out to $900 to $3,000 per month. Considering the fact that you can have more than one pet per night, you can earn quite decent pay.

6. Hotel Blogger

You can start a travel blog where you will feature hotels at a standard fee. The hotels may also offer free services like accommodation or a voucher for later vacations. With most people using online reviews before making major choices for hotels, this dream job is a booming business.

7. Overnight Caregiver

As an overnight caregiver, your job may entail looking after the elderly or nannying. Care.com provides a platform for anyone who wants to find overnight caregivers. Before signing up for these opportunities, ensure that you will have a resting time — which shouldn’t be a problem, as your young or elderly clients are likely to sleep most of the night.

According to Salary.com, overnight caregivers in the U.S. typically earn between $15 and $19 per hour, and the median hourly wage is $17.

8. Sleep Executive

As a sleep executive, you get paid to sleep and determine the efficiency of curtains, shutters and blinds. Interior designers advertise for sleep executives and can pay $140 per day, or $33,400 annually.

The job involves sleeping under different conditions. For example, the company can ask you to sleep with blinds at varying light intensities. It’ll then note the effects of the scenario on your sleep.

9. Sleep Research Centers

There are several hospitals, clinics and universities that will pay you to take part in their sleep research. Sleep studies primarily focus on factors such as brain waves, heartbeat and respiration. Sometimes the roles may require you to be sleep deprived. Therefore, you should be prepared to confront the potentially taxing conditions of these assignments. But you’ll be well paid for the discomfort — sleep study participants average $35 per hour.

10. Security Guard

Obviously, security guards need to be awake and alert when they’re at their posts or patrolling the area they’re responsible for. But some overnight guards are only actively engaged in their work for part of the night. They’re on call during the rest of their shift, and some companies allow them to sleep during this time.

Check with the employer to confirm that you’ll be paid for those on-call hours — many require employees to exclude eight hours for sleep that occurs while on the job, according to Cunningham Law, an employment-law practice based in San Diego, California.

FAQ

Here are the answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about getting paid to sleep.

• What is a professional sleeper?

  • A professional sleeper is someone who gets paid to sleep or tests products that involve sleeping, like mattresses, pillows and sleeping medication.

• What is Sleep Junkie?

  • Sleep Junkie is a website that offers tips for sleeping and guides on mattresses.

• Which company gives money for sleeping?

  • Some companies that pay you to sleep are:

    • Eachnight

    • Same Ole Line

    • Rover

Daria Uhlig contributed to the reporting for this article.

Pay data is accurate as of Aug. 16, 2023, and was sourced from individual company websites, ZipRecruiter and Salary.com.

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