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. 4 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. xAI 20 roles

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

4. Alignerr 492 roles

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

5. Invisible 558 roles

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

6. Anyone AI 194 roles

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

7. micro1 238 roles

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

8. Lionbridge AI Data Training 50 roles

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

9. RemoExperts 38 roles

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

10. Rise Data Labs 73 roles

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

11. Mercor 276 roles

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

12. Weekday 210 roles

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

13. Volga Partners 54 roles

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

14. JT AI Labs 144 roles

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

15. iMerit Scholars 27 roles

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

16. RWS TrainAI 107 roles

    42% rate 38% up to or per task 20% none

17. Welo Data 318 roles

    42% rate 0% up to or per task 58% 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. Braintrust 47 roles

    30% rate 4% up to or per task 66% none

22. Mindrift 61 roles

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

23. Lifted, an Upwork Company 42 roles

    26% rate 5% up to or per task 69% none

24. Babel Audio 43 roles

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

25. Appen / CrowdGen 65 roles

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

26. OneForma 20 roles

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

27. Handshake AI 228 roles

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

28. SuperAnnotate 254 roles

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

29. Lilt 371 roles

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

30. TSMG 160 roles

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

31. Pasiflora AI 132 roles

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

32. DataAnnotation 112 roles

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

33. Sigma AI 97 roles

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

34. Perle 63 roles

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

35. 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 (76%), and Agents & RL tasks roles the least (28%). Pay data has what the rates are.

1. Law 165 roles

   76% rate 12% up to or per task 12% none

2. Coding 398 roles

   75% rate 16% up to or per task 9% none

3. AI evaluation & rating 358 roles

   65% rate 16% up to or per task 19% none

4. Maths & STEM 478 roles

   64% rate 17% up to or per task 19% none

5. Robotics data 91 roles

   59% rate 3% up to or per task 37% none

6. Other expertise 582 roles

   59% rate 30% up to or per task 11% none

7. Medicine & health 242 roles

   57% rate 14% up to or per task 30% none

8. Languages & translation 810 roles

   56% rate 20% up to or per task 24% none

9. Red-teaming & safety 67 roles

   52% rate 12% up to or per task 36% none

10. Writing 63 roles

    49% rate 22% up to or per task 29% none

11. Voice & audio 909 roles

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

12. Finance & accounting 419 roles

    46% rate 16% up to or per task 38% none

13. Data annotation 226 roles

    36% rate 2% up to or per task 62% none

14. Agents & RL tasks 196 roles

    28% rate 26% up to or per task 46% 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 236 roles

   68% rate 19% up to or per task 13% none

2. United States 1,603 roles

   64% rate 25% up to or per task 11% none

3. Spain 388 roles

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

4. Brazil 302 roles

   62% rate 23% up to or per task 16% none

5. France 427 roles

   61% rate 8% up to or per task 30% none

6. United Kingdom 676 roles

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

7. Portugal 261 roles

   60% rate 7% up to or per task 34% none

8. Switzerland 227 roles

   55% rate 5% up to or per task 40% none

9. Sweden 226 roles

   55% rate 9% up to or per task 36% none

10. Germany 504 roles

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

11. Belgium 223 roles

    54% rate 8% up to or per task 39% none

12. Italy 287 roles

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

13. Denmark 213 roles

    52% rate 9% up to or per task 39% none

14. Canada 540 roles

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

15. India 764 roles

    30% rate 38% up to or per task 32% none

16. Open worldwide 499 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.