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About Welo Data

Physical-AI data quality and robotics operations work through Welocalize's hiring board. Openings are collected from the employer's current hiring board. Location, employment terms and pay depend on the individual requisition.

$4–$30/hr

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Is Welo Data a good place to work?

Researched October 2026 · 23 sources

Mostly. Welo Data is a real division of Welocalize, and its Bay Area robot lab jobs are W-2 employment, but its remote rating and annotation work is freelance and unsteady: workers report hours drying up, unpaid tests and sudden removals. The work is not steady. Freelance projects pause or end, hours can fall to a few a week, accounts can be closed with no reason given, and tests are unpaid. Lab jobs are fixed-term, one as short as two weeks, with no promised extension. It pays $4–$30/hr in most of its live listings (median $4/hr).

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Who is behind it

Welo Data belongs to Welocalize, a translation firm founded in 1997 by Smith Yewell in Frederick, Maryland, and owned since 2015 by private equity firm Norwest Equity Partners. In April 2026 the group took a new parent brand, Welo Global, led by CEO Paul Carr, which lists over 1,500 corporate staff and a pool of 500,000+ linguists and experts. Siobhan Hanna runs Welo Data, which sells AI training data, robotics and physical-AI work included.

Getting paid

Remote raters and annotators are freelance contractors paid by the hour or task; Bay Area lab staff are fixed-term W-2 employees. Indeed puts Welocalize quality raters at about $14.57/hr in the US ($7.25 to $21.90). It moved freelancer payouts to Payoneer in 2014. Some workers say they chased payment for three months.

Worker ratings

Glassdoor (Welocalize, all jobs incl. Welo Data) 3.4/5 (about 1,015 reviews) · Indeed (Welocalize, all jobs) 3.1/5 (462 reviews) · Blind (Welocalize office staff) 3.5/5 (6 reviews) · Trustpilot (Welo Data) 2.3/5 (7 reviews) · Trustpilot (Welocalize, mostly applicants and freelancers) 1.3/5 (100 reviews). Read October 2026.

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3 open roles on Welo Data, independently checked 1 Nov 2026.

Who can join

Physical-AI roles are location-specific, including on-site Bay Area work.

Fake Welo Data recruiters

Welo Global's postings warn of recruitment scams in its brands' names. Real recruiters do not reach out over social media or WhatsApp, and no real offer asks you for money; real emails come only from @welocalize.com, @welodata.ai or @hire.lever.co, and real applications go through jobs.lever.co/weloglobal. Treat a Gmail or Yahoo sender or a fee request as a scam.

What people praise

  • An AI data trainer (Glassdoor, March 2026, 2 stars) said that when there was work, it paid decently.
  • A data curator of five years (Glassdoor, February 2025, 3 stars) called it an easy, low-stress gig for anyone who can handle monotony, and valued that Welocalize is upfront that the role leads nowhere.
  • Welocalize's own office staff on Blind (6 reviews, 2022 to 2024) rate work-life balance highest, 4.2/5, and praise remote work and good colleagues.

What people complain about

  • The AI data trainer (Glassdoor, March 2026) said work fell to about 5 hours a week after Christmas, sick leave was removed, quality checks contradict the guidelines, and people are fired every quarter with no reason.
  • The data curator (Glassdoor, February 2025) said five years brought no raise, no cost-of-living increase and no paid time off, and that the only step up is project manager.
  • Recent Trustpilot reviewers of Welocalize (95% one star) describe accounts closed without reason after tests, and hours worked but not paid: one said 15 hours in September 2026, another three months of chasing.
  • Welo Data's Trustpilot reviewers (2026) call its tests over four hours of unpaid work, and say they were rejected without a score or a reason and then barred from applying again.

What has gone wrong

  • November 2024. A search quality rater (Glassdoor, November 2024, 1 star) described a mass cut: raters lost access to their rating tool without warning, had to pass a requalification exam, and many were let go, including some who passed. We found no news report or company statement on it.
Who it suits

Best for: People wanting flexible, part-time remote rating or annotation as side income, or US workers who can take a fixed-term, on-site robot data collection job in the Bay Area for hands-on robotics experience. Not for: Anyone needing steady hours or a full income from remote work, paid training, or a long-term job: freelancers get no paid leave, and on-site lab contracts run weeks or months with no promise of extension.

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What Welo Data pays

Measured live on its open roles · updated 1 Nov 2026
$4–$30/hrusual band, measured live

Today's median on Welo Data: $4/hr, taken from the 3 open roles that list a rate. Posted rates go from $3.50/hr to $35/hr.

Based on 3 different posted rates, at this employer. Advertised USD hourly sample only, not a representative wage survey. Missing rates may bias the result in either direction.

Kind of workOpen rolesTypical pay
Data Annotation2$3.50–$4.03/hr2 rates
Teleoperation1$35/hr1 rate

Welo Data's best-paid openings right now

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Kinds of work at Welo Data

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Robot Teleoperation1 open hereRobot Task Evaluation & QAEmbodied-AI Data Annotation2 open here

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What our research records about Welo Data

4 dated facts from public sources (the company itself, filings, regulators, courts and the press), each kept with the publication it comes from in one of our research reports. Newest first; the newest is from 28 Oct 2026.

  • Welo Data pays US$3.50 an hour for freelance annotators who describe robot manipulation videos (Project Cursa), a remote role whose listed locations include Cairo, Egypt as well as countries in Asia and Latin America.

    Source: Welo Data (Lever job post) · In Africa data collection

  • Welo Data pays US$4.03 an hour for remote quality-control reviewers of its robot manipulation video annotations, a role that also lists Cairo, Egypt.

    Source: Welo Data (Lever job post) · In Africa data collection

  • Welo Data's robot annotation work has annotators watch short robot manipulation videos from three synchronised cameras and write structured descriptions of each action; it says it has more than 500,000 contributors in over 100 countries.

    Source: Welo Data (Lever job post) · In Africa data collection

  • Welo Data sells fully managed robotics and physical AI data collection: it rents the space, recruits participants, secures the site, runs collection, checks quality and delivers model-ready data.

    Source: Welo Data · In Robot data vendors

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Frequently asked questions

Is Welo Data a good place to work?

Mostly. Welo Data is a real division of Welocalize, and its Bay Area robot lab jobs are W-2 employment, but its remote rating and annotation work is freelance and unsteady: workers report hours drying up, unpaid tests and sudden removals. The work is not steady. Freelance projects pause or end, hours can fall to a few a week, accounts can be closed with no reason given, and tests are unpaid. Lab jobs are fixed-term, one as short as two weeks, with no promised extension.

Is Welo Data legit?

Yes. Welo Data belongs to Welocalize, a translation firm founded in 1997 by Smith Yewell in Frederick, Maryland, and owned since 2015 by private equity firm Norwest Equity Partners. In April 2026 the group took a new parent brand, Welo Global, led by CEO Paul Carr, which lists over 1,500 corporate staff and a pool of 500,000+ linguists and experts. Siobhan Hanna runs Welo Data, which sells AI training data, robotics and physical-AI work included.

Is Welo Data a scam?

No. Welo Data is a real company. Welo Global's postings warn of recruitment scams in its brands' names. Real recruiters do not reach out over social media or WhatsApp, and no real offer asks you for money; real emails come only from @welocalize.com, @welodata.ai or @hire.lever.co, and real applications go through jobs.lever.co/weloglobal. Treat a Gmail or Yahoo sender or a fee request as a scam.

Does Welo Data pay?

Yes. Employer career board verified live on October 28, 2026 (463 open roles at check). Payouts: Employment and payment terms are stated in individual job postings.

How much does Welo Data pay?

Today most of Welo Data's listings pay $4–$30/hr, and the median sits at $4/hr, measured on the 3 open roles that list a rate. Posted rates go from $3.50/hr to $35/hr.

Is Welo Data worth it?

Welo Data pays $4–$30/hr in most of its live listings (median $4/hr). It works best as flexible, project-by-project income, since each project sets its own pay, equipment and eligibility. Worth knowing: Glassdoor (Welocalize, all jobs incl. Welo Data) 3.4/5 (about 1,015 reviews) · Indeed (Welocalize, all jobs) 3.1/5 (462 reviews) · Blind (Welocalize office staff) 3.5/5 (6 reviews) · Trustpilot (Welo Data) 2.3/5 (7 reviews) · Trustpilot (Welocalize, mostly applicants and freelancers) 1.3/5 (100 reviews).

How does Welo Data pay out?

Employment and payment terms are stated in individual job postings.

Where is Welo Data open to workers?

Physical-AI roles are location-specific, including on-site Bay Area work.

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