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878 roles across 4 platforms, updated daily.

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.

Platforms you sign up to once

These don't post separate roles. You make one profile, pass one screening, and they match you to projects as work comes in.

SME Careers

SuperAnnotate's network of subject-matter experts who train and test AI models. Medicine, law, finance, STEM and language roles.

Fits

Specialists with a degree or hands-on expertise who can wait for a project. Passing screening doesn't come with a start date.

Pay

SME Careers' own job page lists ceilings from $15/hr (language roles) to $120/hr (US legal rubric design), with $100/hr for US healthcare, finance and STEM rubric roles (264 open roles, Oct 16, 2026). Your rate is set per project.

A 15-minute recorded AI video interview, one retake if offered. Paid weekly through Deel.

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Handshake AI

Handshake's AI training program. Projects for students, graduates and professionals across many fields.

Fits

Graduates and professionals who want a large pool of projects. After signing up, accept the invite, then search the role title you came for.

Pay

Up to $25–$150/hr ceilings, published per role, per our review (checked Sep 12, 2026).

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Ethos

An expert network running AI training campaigns, with a rate published on every listing and no guaranteed volume.

Fits

Senior professionals with a named-firm background who want a published rate before applying.

Pay

$50–$150/hr advertised, per campaign, per our review (checked Sep 12, 2026).

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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 $53 and $103 an hour.

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Half the listings that publish an hourly rate on the boards we mirror have a midpoint between $53 and $103 an hour, and the median midpoint is $75.Counts of the 573 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 316 listings. Solid bars hold the middle half of those midpoints, $53 to $103; outlined bars are the tails. The dashed rule marks the median midpoint, $75 an hour. Board checked October 28, 2026.Listed $/hrListings$0–$4999$50–$99316$100–$14986$150–$19927$200–$24918$250–$29925$300–$3490$350–$3992Median $75/hr

Median listing midpoint $75/hr. Half the priced listings have midpoints between $53 and $103/hr.

573 of 878 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 October 28, 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 88 open roles in Sciences & Research. We haven't ranked these for quality or vetted them, and a rate a platform advertises isn't what anyone takes home.

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Also on the board, too small or too far down the list for a button here: Finance (57), AI & Machine Learning (47), Arts & Design (32), Robotics (19), Data Analysis (18), Energy & Power (15), Sales & Marketing (14), Cybersecurity (8), and 8 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

    878 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.

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