Annotation Insider

Reviews and open roles

Someone has to teach these models.

Frontier AI models learn from people who already know a subject — lawyers, physicists, radiologists, machinists, translators. That work is hiring right now, and almost nobody will tell you plainly what it pays.

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937 roles across 4 platforms, updated daily.

What this work pays

$75/hr

Median rate across every role on this site. Half of them pay more, and the middle half fall between $50 and $105 an hour.

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Half the listings that publish an hourly rate on the boards we mirror have a midpoint between $50 and $105 an hour, and the median midpoint is $75.Counts of the 697 open listings that publish an hourly rate on the boards we mirror, grouped into $50 bands by the midpoint of each listing's advertised range. The largest band is $50–$99 an hour, with 305 listings. Solid bars hold the middle half of those midpoints, $50 to $105; outlined bars are the tails. The dashed rule marks the median midpoint, $75 an hour. Board checked September 13, 2026.Listed $/hrListings$0–$49156$50–$99305$100–$149179$150–$19933$200–$2495$250–$29919Median $75/hr

Median listing midpoint $75/hr. Half the priced listings have midpoints between $50 and $105/hr.

697 of 937 open roles across the boards we mirror publish an hourly rate, in $50 bands by listing midpoint. The full advertised spread runs $6 to $400/hr; those are the extremes, not the market. Checked September 13, 2026.

Solid bars hold the middle half of the midpoints; outlined bars are the tails. These are rates the board advertises, not what anyone takes home.

Open roles by specialty

Pick your field and see three of its open roles, and the rate it pays.

Choose a specialty

Where a platform publishes no specialty, we read the job title and picked one.

The 3 most recently posted of 107 open roles in Language & Audio. We haven't ranked these for quality or vetted them, and a rate a platform advertises isn't what anyone takes home.

The Apply links above are referral links. If you sign up through one, we may be paid a commission, at no extra cost to you. Full disclosure.

See all 107 open roles in Language & Audio →

Also on the board, too small or too far down the list for a button here: Medicine (50), AI & Machine Learning (33), Arts & Design (33), Robotics (24), Sales & Marketing (20), Data Analysis (13), Energy & Power (12), Insurance (12), and 6 smaller ones. They're all on the full board.

The reviews

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What each one is, who it hires, how you get in, and what people who have worked there say — including the parts that would talk you out of applying.

Why this site exists

Annotation Insider is written by people who have done this work. The information around it is bad: blanket pay ranges with no source, review sites quoting each other, and platforms that describe a rate without describing the hours around it.

  • Every open role, in one place

    937 roles across 4 platforms, updated daily, filterable by specialty. No other site collects them.

  • Reviews that name the downsides

    What each platform is, who it hires, how you get in, and what people who work there say about it — including the parts the platform would rather you skipped.

  • Matched to your background

    Paste your resume and see which roles name skills you already have. It runs on your device and nothing is uploaded.

  • Tools that are actually free

    A pay calculator that counts the unpaid hours, and trackers for applications, hours and tax set-aside.

What applying involves

The shape of an application to this kind of platform. Each review sets out that platform’s own, which differ more than you would expect — one of them runs no interview at all.

  1. Step 1

    Apply to a role

    A short form, usually with a resume or an expertise profile attached.

  2. Step 2

    AI interview

    Recorded and scored where a platform runs one; elsewhere an unpaid assessment does the same job.

  3. Step 3

    Decision, then a wait

    Review windows vary, and a rejection often arrives with no reason and no appeal.

  4. Step 4

    Identity checks and paperwork

    A photo ID check, a contractor agreement, tax forms and a payout account.

  5. Step 5

    Matching, then a first task

    Getting through the gate is not the same as being given work, and that wait is rarely published.

Which platform fits you?

A few quick questions, including your domains of expertise. We point you at a platform and the open roles that match what you tell us — which is not the same as knowing a platform will take you.

Question 1 of 4

How many hours a week can you realistically commit?

Pick one — it moves you on.

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