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Contra Labs: pay, who can join and open jobs
AI research arm of the freelance network Contra: designers, photographers, video editors, 3D and game designers get paid to judge AI-generated creative work, create seed datasets and RLHF preference data for AI labs. Apply once with your portfolio and a 30-second intro video; projects are remote, usually 5–10 hours each.
Hourly pay by platform: lowest, median and highest
Based on open jobs with hourly pay listed on aitrainer.jobs. The bar runs from the lowest to the highest rate; the dot is the median.
- Scale AI Human Frontier Collective$300–$300
- 10x Team$29–$439
- Stellar AI$25–$200
- Workada$17–$130
- Mindrift$30–$100
- Rex.Zone$15–$150
- RealTrainAI$48–$140
- Micro1$15–$150
- Afterquery$20–$200
- Mercor$10–$250
- Sovrano AI$6–$125
- Aura One$6–$500
- Ethos$35–$350
- Invisible$5–$150
- Alignerr$10–$400
- TransPerfect$29–$58
- Anyone AI$7–$150
- Pasiflora AI$11–$40
- Appen$10–$100
- xAI$35–$35
- BrainTrust$5–$150
- Lionbridge AI$20–$35
- SuperAnnotate$5–$33
- HumanSignal$13–$80
- LXT$20–$25
- Lifted (Upwork)$10–$110
- CloudFactory$17.5–$25
- Welocalize$5–$105
- RWS$6–$36
- Volga Partners$5–$60
- Claru$5–$100
- Turing$15–$150
- TELUS$11–$14
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