Pay transparency in AI training jobs

By platform

The platforms with at least 20 open roles, ordered by the share that state an hourly rate. It runs from 100% at 10x Team to 0% at Aptura. 3 platforms state a rate on every role. 4 state no pay on any role.

1. 10x Team 107 roles

   100% rate 0% up to or per task 0% none

2. Claru 60 roles

   100% rate 0% up to or per task 0% none

3. Alignerr 494 roles

   100% rate 0% up to or per task 0% none

4. Invisible 558 roles

   99% rate 0% up to or per task 1% none

5. Anyone AI 194 roles

   99% rate 0% up to or per task 2% none

6. micro1 239 roles

   98% rate 0% up to or per task 2% none

7. Lionbridge AI Data Training 50 roles

   96% rate 0% up to or per task 4% none

8. RemoExperts 38 roles

   92% rate 3% up to or per task 5% none

9. Rise Data Labs 73 roles

   90% rate 0% up to or per task 10% none

10. Mercor 277 roles

    90% rate 0% up to or per task 11% none

11. Weekday 210 roles

    89% rate 0% up to or per task 11% none

12. Volga Partners 54 roles

    82% rate 0% up to or per task 19% none

13. JT AI Labs 144 roles

    54% rate 0% up to or per task 47% none

14. iMerit Scholars 27 roles

    52% rate 0% up to or per task 48% none

15. Terac 20 roles

    50% rate 0% up to or per task 50% none

16. Welo Data 318 roles

    42% rate 0% up to or per task 58% none

17. RWS TrainAI 108 roles

    42% rate 39% up to or per task 19% none

18. Prolific 160 roles

    40% rate 43% up to or per task 17% none

19. HumanSignal 34 roles

    35% rate 56% up to or per task 9% none

20. TransPerfect DataForce 24 roles

    33% rate 0% up to or per task 67% none

21. Mindrift 61 roles

    28% rate 72% up to or per task 0% none

22. Lifted, an Upwork Company 43 roles

    26% rate 5% up to or per task 70% none

23. Babel Audio 43 roles

    21% rate 58% up to or per task 21% none

24. Braintrust 37 roles

    16% rate 5% up to or per task 78% none

25. Appen / CrowdGen 65 roles

    15% rate 0% up to or per task 85% none

26. Turing 188 roles

    10% rate 3% up to or per task 87% none

27. OneForma 20 roles

    5% rate 0% up to or per task 95% none

28. Handshake AI 230 roles

    4% rate 97% up to or per task 0% none

29. SuperAnnotate 254 roles

    1% rate 98% up to or per task 1% none

30. Lilt 371 roles

    0% rate 0% up to or per task 100% none

31. TSMG 160 roles

    0% rate 0% up to or per task 100% none

32. Pasiflora AI 132 roles

    0% rate 2% up to or per task 98% none

33. DataAnnotation 112 roles

    0% rate 97% up to or per task 3% none

34. Sigma AI 97 roles

    0% rate 0% up to or per task 100% none

35. Perle 63 roles

    0% rate 5% up to or per task 95% none

36. Aptura 26 roles

    0% rate 0% up to or per task 100% none

By field

Roles grouped by their main kind of work. Law roles are the most likely to state a rate (74%), and Agents & RL tasks roles the least (26%). Pay data has what the rates are.

1. Law 169 roles

   74% rate 12% up to or per task 14% none

2. Coding 497 roles

   64% rate 13% up to or per task 23% none

3. AI evaluation & rating 381 roles

   64% rate 16% up to or per task 21% none

4. Maths & STEM 541 roles

   61% rate 15% up to or per task 24% none

5. Robotics data 90 roles

   59% rate 3% up to or per task 38% none

6. Other expertise 553 roles

   57% rate 32% up to or per task 12% none

7. Languages & translation 812 roles

   55% rate 20% up to or per task 24% none

8. Medicine & health 241 roles

   54% rate 14% up to or per task 32% none

9. Red-teaming & safety 70 roles

   53% rate 11% up to or per task 36% none

10. Writing 69 roles

    49% rate 20% up to or per task 30% none

11. Voice & audio 908 roles

    47% rate 5% up to or per task 48% none

12. Finance & accounting 432 roles

    45% rate 16% up to or per task 39% none

13. Data annotation 229 roles

    34% rate 2% up to or per task 64% none

14. Agents & RL tasks 195 roles

    26% rate 26% up to or per task 48% none

By country

The countries named by the most roles. A role open to several countries counts under each. Roles open worldwide are shown on their own.

1. Australia 242 roles

   68% rate 18% up to or per task 14% none

2. Mexico 222 roles

   65% rate 11% up to or per task 24% none

3. Spain 396 roles

   63% rate 8% up to or per task 29% none

4. United States 1,675 roles

   62% rate 25% up to or per task 13% none

5. Brazil 313 roles

   61% rate 22% up to or per task 17% none

6. France 433 roles

   61% rate 8% up to or per task 31% none

7. United Kingdom 683 roles

   61% rate 14% up to or per task 25% none

8. Portugal 267 roles

   60% rate 6% up to or per task 34% none

9. Switzerland 228 roles

   54% rate 5% up to or per task 40% none

10. Sweden 229 roles

    54% rate 9% up to or per task 37% none

11. Germany 511 roles

    54% rate 20% up to or per task 26% none

12. Italy 292 roles

    53% rate 9% up to or per task 38% none

13. Belgium 226 roles

    53% rate 8% up to or per task 40% none

14. Canada 546 roles

    48% rate 42% up to or per task 10% none

15. India 781 roles

    29% rate 38% up to or per task 33% none

16. Open worldwide 497 roles

    66% rate 7% up to or per task 27% none

Over time

This is the first day of records for this measure, so there is no line to draw yet. We count it every day from 21 October 2026, and the chart appears here once there are two days. Earlier dates can't be filled in, because we can't know how roles stated pay before we started counting.