Robot Training Rate Card: What Each Employer Posts for the Same Work

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.

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.

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.

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.

Location rule

Taken from the location text of each listing or, when that text names no country, from what the listing's own description says: worldwide, worldwide with named exceptions, named countries only, or no rule given.

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 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.

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 Rate Card: What Each Employer Posts for the Same Work, October 2026 edition},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://robottraining.jobs/research/robot-training-rate-card/2026-10}},
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