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What Raises Robot Training Pay

Not enough priced roles on 9 Oct 2026 to compare pay within kinds of work.

Data window
12 Sep 2026 to 9 Oct 2026
28 days, UTC
Computed
10 Oct 2026, 21:13 UTC
Recomputed every day
Source
The public job boards of the robot training employers and programs this site tracks, read every day. Requirements come from the full descriptions of the roles whose boards publish them.
Method
Version 1. Definitions
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Key findings

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Figure 1

Pay premiums, compared within each kind of work

Which traits of a role come with higher advertised pay, all else in its kind of work equal?

TraitPremium within kindMedian withMedian without
Requires a background checkSmall sample
n/a
n/an/a
Requires a commercial driver's license (CDL)Small sample
n/a
n/an/a
Requires a college degreeSmall sample
n/a
n/an/a
Requires a driver's licenseSmall sample
n/a
n/an/a
Senior, lead, supervisor or level II+ titleSmall sample
n/a
$26$27
Night, swing or weekend shift in the titleSmall sample
n/a
$29$26
Open only to US residentsSmall sample
n/a
$27$13

Sample. Roles open on 9 Oct 2026 that state an hourly rate. The licence, degree and background-check traits compare the 0 open roles whose job board publishes a full description (0 employers and programs).

Premium within kind: for each kind of work with at least 5 priced roles on both sides, the median rate with the trait over the median without it, minus one; then the average across those kinds, weighted by the roles with the trait. The medians with and without are across all kinds, for context: where they disagree with the premium, the trait is concentrated in better or worse paid kinds of work.

A premium is an association in advertised pay, not a cause: traits travel together (a CDL role is often also a night shift).

Source. RobotTraining.jobs Research, What Raises Robot Training Pay, live data.

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Figure 2

Requiring a CDL, kind by kind

Do roles that require a commercial driver's license pay more within each kind of work?

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Sample. Roles whose description requires a CDL, against described roles that do not, open on 9 Oct 2026; kinds of work with at least 5 priced roles on both sides.

Rows with fewer than 10 priced roles on either side are marked: their medians move with a few postings.

Source. RobotTraining.jobs Research, What Raises Robot Training Pay, live data.

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Figure 3

Night, swing and weekend shifts, kind by kind

Do roles that name an off-hours shift pay more or less than other roles of the same kind?

No data in this window.

Sample. Roles whose title names a night, swing or weekend shift, against roles whose title names none, open on 9 Oct 2026; kinds of work with at least 5 priced roles on both sides.

Rows with fewer than 10 priced roles on either side are marked: their medians move with a few postings.

Source. RobotTraining.jobs Research, What Raises Robot Training Pay, live data.

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Figure 4

The US-only premium, kind by kind

Do roles open only to US residents pay more than roles open worldwide, within each kind of work?

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Sample. Roles open only to US residents, against roles open worldwide, open on 9 Oct 2026; kinds of work with at least 5 priced roles on both sides.

Rows with fewer than 10 priced roles on either side are marked: their medians move with a few postings.

Source. RobotTraining.jobs Research, What Raises Robot Training Pay, live data.

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Method and definitions

The public job boards of the robot training employers and programs this site tracks, read every day. Requirements come from the full descriptions of the roles whose boards publish them. Every figure is computed by one database query over the window shown, the same query for the live report and for every edition. Each figure states its sample beneath it.

Premium within kind
For each kind of work with at least 5 roles stating an hourly rate on both sides, the median rate with the trait over the median without it, minus one; averaged across those kinds, weighted by the roles with the trait. A trait needs two such kinds of work to show a premium.
Licence, degree, background check
Required by the description, read with the requirements report's reader (a preference does not count).
Shift in the title
A title naming a night, overnight, swing, PM or weekend shift, with the vocabulary of the job-titles report.
US-only
A role whose location rule names the United States and no other country, compared with roles open worldwide.
Advertised pay
The hourly figure a posting states (the middle of a stated range). Medians need at least 8 roles stating a rate; the middle half runs from the 25th to the 75th percentile.
Kind of work
Each role is classified from its title and description into one of the seven kinds of robot training work this site tracks, from robot teleoperation and demonstration collection to egocentric capture, embodied-AI annotation, robot evaluation, fleet operations and AV and drone operation. Every kind links to its own page.
Open role
A role listed by a given day and still in its employer's feed that day.

What this data cannot tell you

  • Employers that recruit without a public job board are not counted, and some data-collection programs enrol people through an app rather than a job listing.
  • A listing is not a hire. Some employers keep evergreen roles open for months, and some post one listing per city or country.
  • A premium is an association in advertised pay, not a cause: traits travel together, and the comparison holds only the kind of work fixed.
  • Most robot training roles state no hourly rate, so several traits rest on few priced roles; a trait without two comparable kinds of work shows no premium.
  • Pay is what postings advertise, not what workers are paid after overtime, shift differentials or bonuses.

How the job feeds are read and roles are classified: site methodology. How fresh, complete and consistent the data is, checked every day: data quality and coverage.

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Citation

RobotTraining.jobs (2026). What Raises Robot Training Pay (live data, 12 Sep 2026 to 9 Oct 2026). https://robottraining.jobs/research/robot-training-pay-premiums (accessed 10 Oct 2026)

BibTeX

@misc{robottrainingjobs_robot_training_pay_premiums_live,
  author = {{RobotTraining.jobs}},
  title = {What Raises Robot Training Pay (live data, 12 Sep 2026 to 9 Oct 2026)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://robottraining.jobs/research/robot-training-pay-premiums}},
  note = {Accessed 10 Oct 2026},
}

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