Robot Training Employer Health: Who Is Growing, Holding or Shrinking

How it was measured

Every day this site reads the public job boards of the robot training employers and programs it follows. Listings only: apply clicks on RobotTraining.jobs are never published by employer. 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.

Coverage

Which employers and programs RobotTraining.jobs reads in full, board by board, each day. Every figure notes how many boards went into it.

Open role

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

New listing

A role seen for the first time during the window, at an employer this site was already following the week before. Whatever an employer has up in its first tracked week is back catalogue and does not count as new.

Removed listing

A role that dropped out of its employer's feed within the window.

Net change

Roles added minus roles taken down, leaving out re-key batches on both sides.

Like-for-like change

An employer's open roles at the window's end set against its open roles at the start, for employers already followed before the window began. One first read during the window is flagged and never counted as growth. The start is adjusted by the net of any re-key batch inside the window.

Status

Growing means a like-for-like change of +10% or more, Shrinking -10% or less, and Steady anything between. Too few roles: the employer's open roles at the start fall short of the weight of the followed employers' average change, fitted on their own counts, so its change cannot stand on its own and no direction is given. First read in window: the employer joined this dataset during the window.

Re-key batch

A listing that drops out of an employer's feed and comes back under the same title in the same daily read, matched one for one: the board has given the same listing a new identifier, not filled one role and opened another. Each such pair is kept out of roles added, roles taken down and the net change, and a day with 3 or more of them is listed as a re-key batch, within the window or a calendar month of the last 26 weeks (none before 14 Sep 2026), with the counts that left and arrived in that read.

Advertised pay

The hourly rate a listing gives, using the midpoint of any range. An employer's median for its open roles needs 3 or more roles with a stated rate.

Rate log

The median posted hourly rate of an employer's new listings in each calendar month, shown once 3 or more new listings give a rate. Back-catalogue roles and re-issued listings are left out.

Same-work change

For every kind of work with 3 or more priced new listings in both the first and the latest month that have a median, the change in that median, averaged with the later month's listings as weights. Raised means +10% or more, Cut -10% or less, Held anything between; Not comparable when no kind qualifies or the kinds compared hold under half of the later month's priced listings. For the market as a whole, the same work means the same kind of work at the same employer.

Moved into or out of a kind of work

Moved into: no open role in that kind at the start of the period (for an employer first read during it, none in its back catalogue) and at least one new listing in it during the period. Moved out of: open roles in that kind at the start and none at the end.

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), with the weekly, monthly and kind-of-work figures read over the 26 weeks to the same end, none before 14 Sep 2026. Edition: a single calendar month, with those figures read over the 26 weeks to month end.

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.
• Start and end are counts on two single days, so an employer that opens and closes roles in big batches can change status from one window to the next.
• A re-key batch is spotted by its pattern, not its cause: an employer that really closed most of its roles and opened as many new ones the same day would be set aside too, so every batch is listed with its counts.
• These are posted rates, not take-home pay. A month's median of a handful of listings moves with a few postings, and the same-work comparison only covers kinds of work an employer posted often enough in both months.
• A role's kind of work is how it is classified today, so a change in this site's classification can shift roles between kinds.

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 Employer Health: Who Is Growing, Holding or Shrinking, October 2026 edition},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://robottraining.jobs/research/robot-training-employer-health/2026-10}},
}

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