Kind of work stringlengths 11 31 | Median on 20 Sep 2026 float64 13 75 ⌀ | Median on 17 Oct 2026 int64 14 100 | Change float64 -4.2 78.1 ⌀ | Priced roles at the end int64 13 2.36k |
|---|---|---|---|---|
All kinds of work | 55 | 65 | 18.2 | 2,360 |
Multilingual & Localization | 37 | 65 | 78.1 | 705 |
Data Annotation & Labeling | 20 | 33 | 65 | 74 |
Writing & Content | 48 | 60 | 26.3 | 21 |
Robotics & Physical-AI Data | 13 | 14 | 12 | 13 |
Red-Teaming & AI Safety | 50 | 55 | 10 | 27 |
Agentic Tasks & RL Environments | 46 | 50 | 8.1 | 44 |
Law, Medicine & Finance | 75 | 80 | 6.7 | 761 |
Transcription, Audio & Speech | 30 | 30 | 0 | 308 |
Coding & Software Evaluation | 65 | 65 | 0 | 152 |
Math & STEM | 65 | 65 | 0 | 156 |
AI Evaluation & Rating (RLHF) | 60 | 58 | -4.2 | 82 |
Research Studies & Surveys | null | 100 | null | 17 |
How AI Training Roles Advertise Pay
AITraining.jobs Research Report, data from 20 Sep 2026 to 17 Oct 2026. By Yuma Heymans, AITraining.jobs (O-mega Enterprise, Inc.), Newark, Delaware, United States.
Summary
On 17 Oct 2026, 82.6% of 3,668 open AI training roles stated an hourly rate, with a median of $65/hr and 60.4% at $50/hr or more.
Question: How often do AI training roles state their pay, how are the rates distributed and how wide are the ranges?
Tables
pay-stated-by-work-type.csv: How often roles state an hourly rate, by kind of workpay-stated-by-platform.csv: How often roles state an hourly rate, by platformadvertised-pay-distribution.csv: How advertised hourly rates are distributedpay-range-width.csv: How wide advertised pay ranges are, by kind of workadvertised-pay-change.csv: Change in the advertised median over the window
Paper
The full paper with method, limitations and disclosure is paper.pdf in this repository.
Source and method
The public job boards of the AI training platforms this site tracks, read every day.
The live, daily-updated version of this report is at https://aitraining.jobs/research/pay-transparency?utm_source=huggingface&utm_medium=repository&utm_campaign=research-2026-10.
License and citation
CC BY 4.0. Cite as:
Heymans, Y. (2026). How AI Training Roles Advertise Pay. AITraining.jobs Research Report, data from 20 Sep 2026 to 17 Oct 2026. https://aitraining.jobs/research/pay-transparency
Disclosure: AITraining.jobs receives referral fees from some platforms it lists; this does not change any figure.
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