No one requires a time sheet anymore. The five companies legally able to work in Nevada are QSI, ACL, Bestmark, HSBrands, and the new one Preferred Investigations. As of this summer, Bestmark is still the only company to reimburse you for the license fee, after a certain number of shops. Traffic is lighter here than any other major city. You can get anywhere in the city, any time of day, in 30 minutes or less if you take a minute to check the traffic patterns. The freeway isn't always the best or worst choice. Parking is reimbursed by at least 3 of the 5 companies. I haven't worked with Preferred yet, and it hasn't come up with me and ACL yet so I haven't asked. I would imagine they reimburse parking as well. After speaking with schedulers who work with other states, Nevada shoppers get similar or more pay than other places, for most shops, partially to offset the cost of the license, partially because there are more shops than shoppers. Getting those "end of month" bonuses are easy. I have seen many threads on forums "How you can earn $1K Mystery Shopping, tell us your story" and the like. In Nevada, that's part time. If you're a shopper, with a good relationship with the 15-20 schedulers here, you can EASILY make that or more, each month. In addition, there's not much competition for the shops, so you (at least *I*) get what you want every month - it's not all that certain pizza shop all the time - although if you like them, there are 4 locations here that need doing each month. If you shop Northern Nevada, I've heard there's less than 70 shoppers up there. I know the schedulers I work with are always asking people to travel up north, so I'm guessing there's plenty of work there too.
IMO, the best thing about working here - you don't have to keep track of 150 different shopping companies, their pay schedules, etc. It's 5 companies. 3 of them pay every 2 weeks. ACL says they do, but it's more like every 3 or 4 by the time the checks get here. And again, I haven't worked with Preferred, so I don't know their schedule.