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Pay rates November 2026

What AI training work paid, by profession: November 2026

The figures as they stood on , from 1,820 open micro1, Mercor, AfterQuery, Turing, SME Careers, Ethos and Sovrano AI roles that stated an hourly rate. This page won't change. Today's figures are on the live page.

Hourly ranges, highest first

Each bar runs from the lowest to the highest rate listed in that profession, on one shared scale. A wide bar means the same profession advertises very different money at each end of the range.

  1. Doctors and clinicians Listed pay $40 to 450 / hr 1,955 openings from 75 roles
  2. Lawyers Listed pay $25 to 400 / hr 2,109 openings from 93 roles
  3. Marketing professionals Listed pay $25 to 350 / hr 356 openings from 101 roles
  4. Data analysts Listed pay $20 to 350 / hr 340 openings from 24 roles
  5. Business and operations specialists Listed pay $8 to 350 / hr 1,961 openings from 291 roles
  6. Engineers Listed pay $20 to 300 / hr 14,774 openings from 84 roles
  7. Software engineers Listed pay $20 to 300 / hr 2,554 openings from 105 roles
  8. Accountants and finance experts Listed pay $20 to 300 / hr 819 openings from 239 roles
  9. IT support specialists Listed pay $63 to 250 / hr 8 openings from 8 roles
  10. Machine learning engineers Listed pay $30 to 250 / hr 447 openings from 24 roles
  11. Physicists Listed pay $35 to 200 / hr 2,075 openings from 17 roles
  12. Researchers and academics Listed pay $30 to 200 / hr 2,118 openings from 99 roles
  13. Medical coders and auditors Listed pay $50 to 190 / hr 573 openings from 16 roles
  14. Life scientists Listed pay Up to $175 / hr 7,434 openings from 45 roles
  15. CAD and manufacturing specialists Listed pay Up to $165 / hr 192 openings from 12 roles
  16. Designers Listed pay $21 to 135 / hr 377 openings from 37 roles
  17. Mathematicians and statisticians Listed pay $40 to 125 / hr 108 openings from 9 roles
  18. Generalists Listed pay $8 to 125 / hr 106,409 openings from 71 roles
  19. Writers and editors Listed pay $15 to 120 / hr 116 openings from 21 roles
  20. Sales and CRM specialists Listed pay $40 to 110 / hr 721 openings from 109 roles
  21. Voice and audio recorders Listed pay $15 to 100 / hr 423 openings from 17 roles
  22. QA engineers Listed pay $21 to 85 / hr 557 openings from 3 roles
  23. Video editors and animators Listed pay $20 to 75 / hr 24 openings from 6 roles
  24. Bilingual speakers Listed pay Up to $75 / hr 626 openings from 138 roles
  25. Transcribers Listed pay $8 to 50 / hr 181 openings from 11 roles
  26. Video recorders Listed pay $6 to 30 / hr 6,200 openings from 5 roles

Ranked by the top of each range; a tie goes to the profession with the higher bottom. The scale runs from $0 to $450 an hour, the highest rate listed anywhere in the data. Each profession links to its open roles. To cite one row, add # and the profession to the address, as in #lawyers.

One profession with no listed pay

This profession has no range above because no open role in it states a rate, and we do not estimate one. It stays on this page so you can see what is quiet rather than wonder whether we looked.

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