What the data shows

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For jobs open to US residents, Data & Demonstration Collection shows the largest gap within one kind of work: the median at Alignerr is $80 an hour against $22 at Collaborative Robotics (3.64 times as much).
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In the middle kind of work for US-open jobs, the top-paying employer's median is 1.57 times the lowest-paying one's (across 4 kinds compared).
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Counting jobs in every country, Egocentric & Wearable Capture has the largest gap: a median of $105 an hour at RemoExperts against $10 at Claru (10.5 times), which may partly reflect where each of them hires.
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Over jobs in every country, the top-paying employer's median runs 2.62 times the lowest-paying one's in the middle kind of work (the median over 4 kinds of work where at least two employers can be compared).
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Alignerr posts the top median rate in 1 kind of work (Data & Demonstration Collection).
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Rate card, jobs open to US residents

Holding the country fixed: among jobs someone living in the US may apply for, what hourly rate does each employer advertise?

Kind of work	All employers	Tesla	Alignerr	Amazon Prime Air	Aurora Innovation	Claru	Collaborative Robotics	Dyna Robotics	Figure AI	Gatik	Kodiak AI	Highest over lowest
AV & Drone Operators	$32	$27	n/a	$35	$35	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	$26	$37	1.54x
Data & Demonstration Collection	$30	$30	$80	n/a	n/a	n/a	$22	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3.64x
Robot Teleoperation	$28	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	$30	n/a	n/a	n/a
Robot Fleet Operations	$27	$27	n/a	$27	n/a	n/a	n/a	$26	n/a	n/a	n/a	1.59x
Egocentric & Wearable Capture	$21	n/a	$21	n/a	n/a	$15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1.40x

Base: 256 jobs a US resident may apply for still open when 25 Oct 2026 ended and giving an hourly rate. An employer's median appears only where 3 or more of its jobs in that row give one; otherwise n/a.

Advertised pay is the hourly amount written in the posting, or the midpoint when it gives a range. What a person ends up earning can differ with shift premiums, the hours actually offered, and recordings or sessions that are not accepted.

The 10 employer columns are the employers with the most medians shown in this table; "All employers" pools the priced jobs of every employer in the row.

Limited to jobs a person living in the United States can apply for (worldwide jobs, jobs that list the US, and jobs that do not rule it out), so an employer that recruits mainly where wages are lower is measured on equal terms.

Credit: RobotTraining.jobs Research, Robot Training Rate Card: What Each Employer Posts for the Same Work, daily data.

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Employer rates by kind of work

What hourly rate does each employer post for each kind of robot training work, wherever it hires?

Kind of work	All employers	Tesla	Alignerr	Amazon Prime Air	Aurora Innovation	Claru	Collaborative Robotics	Dyna Robotics	Figure AI	Gatik	Kodiak AI	Highest over lowest
AV & Drone Operators	$32	$27	n/a	$35	$35	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	$27	$37	1.54x
Data & Demonstration Collection	$30	$30	$80	n/a	n/a	n/a	$22	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3.64x
Robot Teleoperation	$28	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	$30	n/a	n/a	n/a
Robot Fleet Operations	$27	$27	n/a	$27	n/a	n/a	n/a	$26	n/a	n/a	n/a	1.59x
Egocentric & Wearable Capture	$15	n/a	$21	n/a	n/a	$10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10.50x

Base: 277 jobs still open when 25 Oct 2026 ended and giving an hourly rate. An employer's median appears only where 3 or more of its jobs in that row give one; otherwise n/a.

The 10 employer columns are the employers with the most medians shown in this table; "All employers" pools the priced jobs of every employer in the row.

Credit: RobotTraining.jobs Research, Robot Training Rate Card: What Each Employer Posts for the Same Work, daily data.

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Employer rates by professional field

When a job title names a profession, what hourly rate does each employer post for it?

Professional field	All employers	Aurora Innovation	Stack AV	Tesla	Highest over lowest
Business and management	$35	$35	$35	$35	1.00x

Base: Jobs with a profession in the title still open when 25 Oct 2026 ended and giving an hourly rate. An employer's median appears only where 3 or more of its jobs in that row give one; otherwise n/a.

The 3 employer columns are the employers with the most medians shown in this table; "All employers" pools the priced jobs of every employer in the row.

Credit: RobotTraining.jobs Research, Robot Training Rate Card: What Each Employer Posts for the Same Work, daily data.

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Employer rates by language

When a job title calls for a language, what hourly rate does each employer post?

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Base: Jobs with a language in the title still open when 25 Oct 2026 ended and giving an hourly rate. An employer's median appears only where 3 or more of its jobs in that row give one; otherwise n/a.

The 0 employer columns are the employers with the most medians shown in this table; "All employers" pools the priced jobs of every employer in the row.

Credit: RobotTraining.jobs Research, Robot Training Rate Card: What Each Employer Posts for the Same Work, daily data.

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How far the rate for the same work moves between employers

Doing the same work, how big is the gap between the top-paying and the lowest-paying employer?

Work	Grouped by	Highest	Lowest	Highest over lowest	Employers compared
Egocentric & Wearable Capture	Kind of work	RemoExperts $105	Claru $10	10.50x	3
Data & Demonstration Collection	Kind of work	Alignerr $80	Collaborative Robotics $22	3.64x	3
Robot Fleet Operations	Kind of work	Stack AV $35	Serve Robotics $22	1.59x	5
AV & Drone Operators	Kind of work	Kodiak AI $37	Transdev $24	1.54x	8
Business and management	Professional field	Aurora Innovation $35	Tesla $35	1.00x	3

Base: Every group where two or more employers each had 3+ open jobs giving an hourly rate on 25 Oct 2026.

The gap sets employer medians side by side, not single jobs, and one employer's own rates can range widely for identical work.

Over all countries, the gap can also mirror where each employer recruits, since an employer may set a different rate in each country; the US-resident rate card takes that out.

Credit: RobotTraining.jobs Research, Robot Training Rate Card: What Each Employer Posts for the Same Work, daily data.

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The top-paying employer in each kind of work

Which employers post the highest rate across the most kinds of robot training work?

Employer	Kinds of work it tops	Which
Alignerr	1	Data & Demonstration Collection
Kodiak AI	1	AV & Drone Operators
RemoExperts	1	Egocentric & Wearable Capture
Stack AV	1	Robot Fleet Operations

Base: Kinds of work in which two or more employers each gave an hourly rate on 3+ open jobs, as of 25 Oct 2026.

Credit: RobotTraining.jobs Research, Robot Training Rate Card: What Each Employer Posts for the Same Work, daily data.

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Employer median: Among an employer's open roles in one group that give an hourly rate, the middle one. It is shown only from 3 such roles, the same floor as every median on this site.
US-open grid: Many employers pay less where living costs are lower, so a second grid keeps only the jobs a US resident may apply to and compares employers on that common ground.
Top over bottom: Within a group, the best-paying employer's median divided by the lowest-paying one's, counting only employers with a median shown.
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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.
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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 posted rates. Shift premiums, overtime and bonuses can change what a worker actually takes home.
One employer's roles in a group can still differ from another's in seniority, shift or licence, which a median does not separate.

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RobotTraining.jobs (2026). Robot Training Rate Card: What Each Employer Posts for the Same Work (live data, 28 Sep 2026 to 25 Oct 2026). https://robottraining.jobs/research/robot-training-rate-card (accessed 26 Oct 2026)

BibTeX

@misc{robottrainingjobs_robot_training_rate_card_live,
  author = {{RobotTraining.jobs}},
  title = {Robot Training Rate Card: What Each Employer Posts for the Same Work (live data, 28 Sep 2026 to 25 Oct 2026)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://robottraining.jobs/research/robot-training-rate-card}},
  note = {Accessed 26 Oct 2026},
}

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