Robot Training Pay Against the Minimum Wage

How it was measured

Every day this site reads the public job boards of the robot training employers and programs it follows. Each role's stated hourly rate and location are read from its posting. Minimum wages come from each state's labour department or the US Department of Labor's state table, and from each city's own ordinance page for the eleven cities with a minimum of their own, as in force on 12 Oct 2026, with the source beside each row. 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.

Compared role

An open role whose posting states an hourly rate in dollars, whose location names exactly one US state, and that is not remote. A remote role is not done in the state its posting names, so it is left out.

Advertised rate

The hourly rate a posting states, the midpoint of a range.

Local minimum

The general adult minimum wage per hour in force on 12 Oct 2026 where the job is: the city's own where the location names one of the eleven cities that set one (San Francisco, Mountain View, Santa Clara, San Jose, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Chicago, New York City, Flagstaff), else the state's, or the federal $7.25 where the state has none or a lower one. Tipped, youth and training rates are not used.

Multiple

A role's advertised rate divided by its local minimum. The state, city and kind-of-work figures give the median of these.

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

• Only the eleven cities named above are applied. Other local minimums (counties such as Montgomery County, Maryland, and smaller cities) are not, so a role in one of them is compared with the lower state floor.
• Only roles that state a dollar rate are compared, and employers that state one are not a random sample of employers.
• A posting that lists several states is left out rather than assigned to one.
• The minimum wages are a table read on 12 Oct 2026; a state that raises its minimum later is compared with the new rate only once the table is updated.

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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  title = {Robot Training Pay Against the Minimum Wage, October 2026 edition},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://robottraining.jobs/research/robot-training-pay-vs-minimum-wage/2026-10}},
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