For more money, you'll have to do more work. And for that, you'll need to find people who will pay in BTC, which is still quite rare.

Given BTC's history as a black market currency and the difficulties it faces in being accepted as a legitimate currency by payment processors (and the total lack of consumer protection), proper earning sites are still rare. It's gone into the "next big thing" stage, with all the newspapers and popular sites trying to fit the word "bitcoin" into any article they can... so all the asshole marketers, scammers and idiots are jumping on the bandwagon and doing their best to destroy everything BTC has so far achieved.

That's the thing with faucets: they're free and legitimate (provided they use a micro-payment system or prove their worth). People (not you) complain that they only give out fractions of a cent, but then I don't see those people standing on the street, handing out cash for filling in Captchas.