# kaal:claim:5254152-023

**Claim.** The average Work to Earn score across the sampled DAOs is 4.1, ranging from 1 to 9, indicating only moderate effectiveness of contributor reward mechanisms across the market.

**Type.** empirical  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- dataset of 50 DAOs
- work to earn scored on a 1 to 10 scale

**Source quote.**

> The average score across all DAOs is 4.1, with the highest score being 9 and the lowest score being 1.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *DAO Market Meta Analysis 2024* (2024), Descriptive statistics, Figure 7, page 18

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, DAO Market Meta Analysis 2024 (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5254152

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**Topics.** risk-and-incentives, empirical-evidence

**Keywords.** work-to-earn, contributor-incentives, descriptive-statistics, empirical-findings

**Related claims.**

- supersedes: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4529715-005

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