Robot Training Pay Structures: Hourly, Per Task or Salary

How it was measured

Daily reads of the public job boards run by the robot training employers and programs this site follows: the compensation text and employment type of each open role, plus the full description wherever a board provides one. A single database query produces each figure for the window shown, and the live page and every monthly edition run that identical query. The note under each figure gives its base.

Pay unit

Taken from a listing's compensation text: whichever unit appears first ('/hr', 'per task', 'fixed', 'per year'). A number with no unit ('$400') is recorded as unitless and never given one. 'Fixed' means one price for the entire job. Hourly text goes through the same parser the job board uses (lib/pay-band.ts), which keeps only the hourly clause, so a bonus printed next to the rate never becomes the top of a range.

Currency

A '$' sign is taken as US dollars, which is how the boards publish it; a currency code ('EUR 31850 per year') is taken at face value. No currency is ever converted.

Range, single figure, 'up to' or 'from'

A range has two distinct numbers. A single figure has one (a range with equal ends counts here too). 'Up to' states just a ceiling, and 'from' just a floor.

Engagement type

The board's employment-type field, standardised into: contract; freelance or independent contractor; hourly; task-based; part-time; full-time; direct hire. If the field names none of these, or is missing, the type is not stated.

Per-task rate

A per-task amount in US dollars from the compensation text, using the midpoint of any range. A median needs 3 or more roles, and 'up to' amounts are excluded.

Payout schedule and service

Taken from the full description, and only when it is about pay: 'paid weekly via Stripe' qualifies, a weekly team meeting does not.

Output-based pay

The description says pay is per task, submission, video or asset (usually one approved or accepted), or that compensation is output- or task-based.

Described roles

Roles still open when the window closes whose board provides a full description. Every description-based figure gives the number of roles and employers behind it.

Open role

On a given day, a role that has been posted and still shows in the employer's feed.

Window

Live page: the 28 most recent full days (UTC). Edition: a single calendar month (UTC).

Limits of this data

• Large employers often reuse one description per city, so their template carries extra weight in any share drawn from descriptions.
• Pay is taken as the board publishes it. Take-home pay after overtime, shift premiums or bonuses is unknown, and an hourly figure on a role paid per video or task is only an estimate.
• If a description leaves a term out, it counts as not stated, even though the employer may still pay weekly or through a service the listing never names.
• Engagement types come from each board's own field, and boards fill that field in different ways.
• Hiring that happens without a public job board is not captured.

Collection and classification of listings are explained on the methodology page. Freshness, completeness and consistency are tested daily in the data quality report.

Monthly editions

The live page spans the 28 most recent full days and updates daily. Every finished month also gets its own edition, locked two days after month end, so a number quoted from it stays fixed.

• Live page28 most recent full days, rebuilt daily
• October 2026 edition (you are here)Will lock when the next daily refresh runs

Quoting this report

You may quote, chart or republish these figures under CC BY 4.0, provided you link back to this page. This edition is locked: its numbers will not change.

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