AI training jobs · Pay tracker
AI gig pay tracker: who's hiring today, and at what rate
Live Updated Oct 17, 2026 · 13 platforms tracked
Right now the platforms below list 6,596 open roles. Mercor lists 294 at a median posted $60–100 an hour. Rates move by project, and the platform paying most for your field this week may not be the one you joined.
This page shows what AI training platforms are posting right now: open roles, the hourly rate in each listing and the ranges they advertise, each with its source and the date we saw it. A posted rate is not what you'll earn: you're paid only for hours you work, and hours aren't guaranteed.
Platforms change rates project by project and rarely announce it. If you only watch one platform, you won't see that another is posting more roles at a higher rate this week. This tracker reads their public job boards on a schedule and shows what changed since the last update. Find the platform posting for your field, then apply there first.
Median posted hourly pay
The median low-to-high rate across each platform's listings that state one. Platforms with fewer than 20 priced listings are left out here; they're in the table.
- Mercor$60–100/hr
- micro1$52.50–100/hr
- Alignerr$35–80/hr
- DataAnnotationup to $125/hr
- Handshake AIup to $80/hr
Gold: the median posted range. Outlined: only a top rate is posted ("up to"). Scale: $0 to $125 an hour. Posted rates, not earnings.
Pay by platform
| Platform | Advertised pay | Posted pay (median range) | Top posted | Open roles | Change since last update | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alignerr mixed | $80/hr Average pay (homepage) | $35–80/hr | $400/hr | 5,667 5667 show pay | — | Oct 17, 2026 |
| Mercor expert | — | $60–100/hr | $450/hr | 294 294 show pay | — | Oct 17, 2026 |
| micro1 expert | — | $52.50–100/hr | $400/hr | 253 246 show pay | — | Oct 17, 2026 |
| Handshake AI mixed | up to $100/hr Fellowship (PhDs and Masters) | up to $80/hr | $300/hr | 250 250 show pay | — | Oct 17, 2026 |
| DataAnnotation mixed | $75–125/hr Expert rates up to $50/hr Generalist | up to $125/hr | $150/hr | 112 112 show pay | — | Oct 17, 2026 |
| Human Frontier Collective (Scale AI) expert | — | $300/hr | $300/hr | 17 2 show pay | — | Oct 17, 2026 |
| Remotasks generalist | — | $9–16.50/hr | $17/hr | 3 2 show pay | — | Oct 17, 2026 |
| Outlier mixed | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Turing expert | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Invisible Technologies expert | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| TELUS Digital AI Community generalist | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Prolific generalist | $8+/hr Study minimum $12+/hr Recommended to researchers | — | — | — | — | Oct 17, 2026 |
| Kled generalist | — | — | — | — | — | — |
"—" means we couldn't read a figure on that update, not zero. Posted pay covers only listings that state a rate. In the change column, volt means more open roles, magenta fewer.
Platform by platform
Alignerralignerr.com
- $80/hr Average pay (homepage) · source, seen Oct 17, 2026
| Sample open role | Posted pay |
|---|---|
| Machine Learning Evaluation Specialist | $200–400/hr |
| Indonesian Language Expert | $40–120/hr |
| Ingeniero de Software Senior (Infraestructura IA) | $20–100/hr |
| Material Science Expert (Masters/PhDs) | $75–90/hr |
| Rust Software Engineer - Distributed Systems | $50–75/hr |
| Physics Masters | $35–55/hr |
Public jobs JSON behind alignerr.com/jobs: 5667 listings (540 distinct titles; many are the same role per language or country). Medians use every listing fetched.
Mercorwork.mercor.com
| Sample open role | Posted pay |
|---|---|
| Oncologist | $350–450/hr |
| Data Scientist Talent Network | $100–150/hr |
| Administrative Services Managers | $70–110/hr |
| Excel Expert — Finance | $70–100/hr |
| Legal Expert, Mandarin Chinese (mainland China) | $85/hr |
| Finance Expert, Mandarin Chinese (mainland China) | $65/hr |
Listings come from the public work.mercor.com/explore page data. Mercor does not advertise a headline rate. Its Ashby board (api.ashbyhq.com/.../mercor) is staff hiring, not expert work, so it is not counted.
micro1micro1.ai
| Sample open role | Posted pay |
|---|---|
| Research Scientist - Computer Science & Computational Physics | $100–400/hr |
| Bilingual Japanese Psychiatrist | $100–200/hr |
| Corporate Transactions Attorney | $90–130/hr |
| Contracts Attorney | $90–110/hr |
| Adolescent/Child Safeguarding & Exploitation Specialist | $45–95/hr |
| English Voice Recording | $20–70/hr |
Expert roles from the public job-portal JSON that micro1.ai/experts/opportunities loads for logged-out visitors (a read-only POST query). Pay is the posted "ideal hourly rate"; currency assumed USD as shown on the site. No headline rate advertised.
Handshake AIjoinhandshake.com
- up to $100/hr Fellowship (PhDs and Masters) · source, seen Oct 17, 2026
| Sample open role | Posted pay |
|---|---|
| Neurologists ai trainer | up to $300/hr |
| Technical Design Expert | up to $125/hr |
| Technical Writers | up to $100/hr |
| Solar Design Engineer | up to $85/hr |
| Logistics Manager | up to $80/hr |
| Geological Technicians | up to $75/hr |
Roles are the 242 opportunity pages in Handshake's public sitemap (pay read from each page) plus hourly AI trainer/red-team roles on its Ashby board. The sitemap may include roles that are paused.
DataAnnotationdataannotation.tech
- $75–125/hr Expert rates · source, seen Oct 17, 2026
- up to $50/hr Generalist · source, seen Oct 17, 2026
| Sample open role | Posted pay |
|---|---|
| Software Engineer | up to $150/hr |
| Nurse | up to $125/hr |
| Mechanical Design Engineer | up to $125/hr |
| Corporate Attorney | up to $125/hr |
| IP Attorney | up to $125/hr |
| Arabic Specialist | up to $40/hr |
Homepage job board lists 112 role types, each "up to $X/hr" (no minimums). Counts are role types, not openings.
Human Frontier Collective (Scale AI)job-boards.greenhouse.io
| Sample open role | Posted pay |
|---|---|
| Research Advisor - Human Frontier Collective (UK) | $300/hr |
| Research Advisor - Human Frontier Collective (US) | $300/hr |
Scale AI's expert fellowship, posted on the Scale Greenhouse board (filtered to Human Frontier Collective and Subject Matter Expert roles). Most postings state no pay; figures come from posting text.
Remotasksremotasks.com
| Sample open role | Posted pay |
|---|---|
| AI Training for Igbo Writers | up to $17/hr |
| Video Content Description Specialist Expertise Sought for AI Training | $9–16/hr |
Scale AI brand. Tasker roles posted on its Greenhouse board (staff roles such as community managers excluded); pay read from the posting text. The homepage shows no rates.
Outlieroutlier.ai
FAQ says only "rates vary by expertise, project complexity, and location"; no figure published. The opportunities board (app.outlier.ai/opportunities) loads from an internal API that needs a session/CSRF token, so there is no public role feed.
Turingturing.com
No public pay figure. turing.com/jobs pages are evergreen SEO pages without rates; Turing's Greenhouse board (boards-api.greenhouse.io/v1/boards/turing) is staff hiring with no posted pay. Contractor roles sit behind a login.
Invisible Technologiesinvisibletech.ai
invisible.co redirects to invisibletech.ai. The join-us page loads roles with JavaScript and shows no pay; its Greenhouse boards (invisibletech, invisible) are staff roles without posted pay. A /compensation-and-pay-tiers page exists but robots.txt asks crawlers to skip it, so it is not read.
Invisible Technologies review: acceptance, payment and complaints →
TELUS Digital AI Communitytelusdigital.com
Skipped: HTTP 403 (telusdigital.com answers 403 to non-browser clients, robots.txt included; a bot wall). No public pay or role feed reachable.
Prolificprolific.com
- $8+/hr Study minimum · source, seen Oct 17, 2026
- $12+/hr Recommended to researchers · source, seen Oct 17, 2026
Pay floor that Prolific enforces on researchers (studies, not AI tasks). Studies are only visible to logged-in participants; its Greenhouse board is staff hiring.
Kledkled.ai
Pays per upload of photos, video and documents inside its app; no rates or role feed published on the website.
How we collect this
Our system reads each platform's public careers board and job feeds (no logins, no applications) and records every open role, the hourly rate when the listing states one, and the platform's own advertised pay ranges with the page they came from. "Posted pay" is the median of the low and high ends across listings that show a rate; "top posted" is the highest rate listed. Each update is compared with the last one.
- These are posted rates, not earnings. You're paid for hours you actually work, and many platforms have no guaranteed hours.
- Listings are a snapshot. Roles open and close daily, and some platforms post one listing for many projects.
- Pay depends on you. Rates are set by skill, project and often country. Expert roles (law, medicine, coding, STEM PhDs) pull the top end up.
Sources
- outlier.ai/faq
- dataannotation.tech/
- alignerr.com/
- alignerr.com/api/jobs?limit=120&offset=0
- work.mercor.com/explore
- joinhandshake.com/ai/opportunities
- joinhandshake.com/sitemap-1.xml
- api.ashbyhq.com/posting-api/job-board/handshake?includeCompe
- prod-api.micro1.ai/api/v1/job/portal
- turing.com/jobs
- invisibletech.ai/join-us
- researcher-help.prolific.com/en/articles/445266-how-much-sho
- boards-api.greenhouse.io/v1/boards/remotasks/jobs?content=tr
- kled.ai/
- boards-api.greenhouse.io/v1/boards/scaleai/jobs?content=true
Found a platform posting for your field? Read its review first for acceptance, payment and complaints: every platform review. New to this work? Start with AI training jobs: what they pay and where to apply.
FAQ
How often is the pay tracker updated?
Each update re-reads every platform's public job listings and advertised pay. The date at the top shows the latest run, and each row shows when that figure was seen.
Why do some platforms show no open roles?
Some platforms don't publish individual listings (you apply once and get matched to projects), so we can only show their advertised ranges. A dash means no reading, not zero.
Is posted pay what I'll earn?
No. It's the rate in the listing. You're paid for hours or tasks you actually complete, work isn't guaranteed, and rates often depend on your country and qualifications.