Robot Training Pay Transparency: Who States a Rate

How it was measured

Every day this site reads the public job boards of the robot training employers and programs it follows. 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.

Stating pay

A role counts as stating pay if its listing shows an hourly number or an hourly range. Salaries, per-task or per-video pay and listings with no number are excluded.

Advertised pay

The hourly rate a listing gives, using the midpoint when it gives a range. A median appears only when 3 or more roles state a rate, and the middle half spans the 25th to the 75th percentile.

Range ratio

For listings that post a range, the upper figure divided by the lower one.

Pay-transparency state

A US state (or DC) whose law, on the day counted, requires employers to put pay in job postings, each read from the state's own page. States that require pay only on request or after an interview do not count. In this view a listing states pay if it gives any figure, hourly or salary, and only on-site listings whose location names one state are counted.

Open role

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

Kind of work

A role's title and description place it in one of the seven kinds of robot training work this site follows, ranging from robot teleoperation and demonstration collection through egocentric capture, embodied-AI annotation, robot evaluation and fleet operations to AV and drone operation. Each kind has a page of its own.

Window

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

Limits of this data

• Hiring that happens off public job boards is invisible here, and some data-collection programs sign people up inside an app instead of posting a job.
• A posting does not equal a hire. Certain employers leave evergreen roles up for months, and others post the same role once per city or country.
• These are advertised rates. Overtime, shift premiums and bonuses can change what a worker actually takes home.
• The state-law view does not check a law's employer-size threshold, so a small employer exempt from its state's law still counts there.

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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  author = {{RobotTraining.jobs}},
  title = {Robot Training Pay Transparency: Who States a Rate, October 2026 edition},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://robottraining.jobs/research/pay-transparency/2026-10}},
}

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