75*3 =225. 225/12=18.75. You need to earn 19k a month to achieve it unless you also have flying, spend on CC and of course partner award flights to add to it. Last year I had a few long haul partner awards that helped yet still fell short of even 20k eqm. AS offered me to buy the bal for $500. Baturely I passed. LOL.

The system now showed status pts in account activity, I redeemed a total of 4 x2K in 2026. Each one got 667 shown in point activity. I suspect despite the 1st 2K has not done anything back in 3rd week of January, AS system has finally caught up and now posts EQM pro rate based on the 1K per 3K partner miles earned as soon as the eReward redemption hits AS system. So it is 667 per 2K reward from eRewards. I need to do better this year to at least get to 20K EQM, meaning earning 60K from eReward to achieve the lowest rung of the tiers. Problem is whenever you are outside of US you could not do survey in your downtime. So I have roughly 2 months a year there is no earning, as in I only have 10 months to pursuit this effort.

Another reason is of course the availability of working survey. This is truly a luck of draw. There are spells nothing work while occasionally everything works. Though I never have luck on high value survey or even there is one would be screened out quickly. If it takes a lot longer to be screened out or quota full I open a ticket. I will no longer let them get away with such behaviors/poor survey designs.