{"name":"What Draws Applicants to Robot Training Roles (live data, 12 Sep 2026 to 9 Oct 2026)","question":"Which traits of a robot training role draw more applicants, compared within the same kind of work?","source":"Apply clicks made on RobotTraining.jobs, joined to the role clicked and the days each role was open, with each role's pay, location rule, listing date and title from the public job boards this site reads every day.","publisher":"RobotTraining.jobs","url":"https://robottraining.jobs/research/what-draws-applicants-to-robot-training-roles","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"RobotTraining.jobs (2026). What Draws Applicants to Robot Training Roles (live data, 12 Sep 2026 to 9 Oct 2026). https://robottraining.jobs/research/what-draws-applicants-to-robot-training-roles (accessed 10 Oct 2026)","frozen_at":null,"report":"what-draws-applicants-to-robot-training-roles","method":1,"edition":null,"window":{"from":"2026-09-12","to":"2026-10-09","days":28},"computedAt":"2026-10-10T21:13:49.527Z","summary":"Compared within the same kind of work from 12 Sep 2026 to 9 Oct 2026, stating an hourly rate went with 13.1 times the clicks per open role: associations among the people who use RobotTraining.jobs, partly the site's own ranking of roles.","stats":[{"id":"strongest","value":"13.1x","label":"clicks per open role: states an hourly rate, against roles that state none (within kind)","figure":"drivers"},{"id":"base-rate","value":"0.07","label":"apply clicks per open role a week, all roles","figure":"drivers"}],"findings":[{"id":"strongest-association","figure":"drivers","text":"Within the same kind of work, roles that state an hourly rate drew 13.1 times the apply clicks per open role of roles that state none, the strongest association measured (4 kinds of work compared)."},{"id":"mix-effect","figure":"drivers","text":"Pooled across kinds of work, roles that state an hourly rate drew 8.7 times the apply clicks per open role of roles that state none, but within the same kind of work 13.1 times the clicks per open role: they are concentrated in kinds of work that draw fewer applicants per role."},{"id":"listing-age","figure":"demand-by-listing-age","text":"In their first week, roles drew 5.94 times the clicks per open role of their kind of work's average; listed more than three months earlier, 1.06 times, a gap that partly reflects the site's own recency ranking."}],"figures":[{"id":"drivers","title":"What goes with more applicants, compared within each kind of work","question":"Which traits of a robot training role draw more apply clicks per open role than similar roles without them?","columns":[{"key":"group","label":"Trait","unit":"text"},{"key":"index","label":"Within kind (with / without)","unit":"index","decimals":2,"bar":true},{"key":"raw","label":"All kinds pooled","unit":"index","decimals":2},{"key":"with","label":"Roles with the trait","unit":"count"},{"key":"kinds","label":"Kinds of work compared","unit":"count","secondary":true},{"key":"against","label":"Compared with","unit":"text","secondary":true}],"rows":[{"key":"pay-stated","thin":false,"cells":{"group":"States an hourly rate","index":13.14,"raw":8.73,"with":138,"kinds":4,"against":"Roles that state none"}},{"key":"long-title","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Title of 9 words or more","index":null,"raw":2.64,"with":22,"kinds":0,"against":"Roles with 4 words or fewer"}},{"key":"new-listing","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Listed less than 14 days earlier","index":null,"raw":13.76,"with":116,"kinds":1,"against":"Roles listed before that"}},{"key":"part-time","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Title says part-time","index":null,"raw":1.01,"with":35,"kinds":1,"against":"Roles without it"}},{"key":"shift","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Title names a night, swing or weekend shift","index":null,"raw":1.73,"with":44,"kinds":1,"against":"Roles whose title names none"}},{"key":"top-pay-third","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Pay in the top third of its kind","index":null,"raw":1.02,"with":37,"kinds":0,"against":"Roles in the bottom third"}},{"key":"us-only","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Open only to US residents","index":null,"raw":0.04,"with":423,"kinds":0,"against":"Roles open worldwide"}},{"key":"vehicle","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Title names a vehicle, drone or vessel","index":null,"raw":0.19,"with":374,"kinds":1,"against":"Roles whose title names none"}},{"key":"worldwide","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Open worldwide","index":null,"raw":34.99,"with":7,"kinds":0,"against":"Roles open only to listed countries"}}],"sample":"187 apply clicks on 847 roles listed at some point from 12 Sep 2026 to 9 Oct 2026, over 2,666 open role-weeks.","notes":["Rows are marked, and not ranked in the findings, when either side has fewer than 30 clicks, fewer than 10 roles or fewer than 3 roles open on an average day; the same rule marks the rows of every figure in this report.","Within kind: in each kind of work with at least 10 roles and 30 open role-weeks on both sides, apply clicks per open role a week with the trait over the same rate without it; then the average across those kinds, weighted by the open role-weeks with the trait. 1.00x is no difference; a trait needs two such kinds of work. Pooled: the same ratio with every kind of work together. Where the two disagree, the trait sits in kinds of work that draw more (or fewer) applicants per role.","Pay thirds are formed within each kind of work, from the roles listed in the window that state an hourly rate (ties share a third). A listing's age is taken at the middle of the days it was open in the window; roles with no known listing date are left out of that comparison. Vehicles are read from the title with the vocabulary of the robots and equipment report, shifts and part-time with that of the job-titles report.","Title words often follow an employer's posting template (shift and part-time words, for example, appear in the titles of a handful of employers), so within a kind of work a title trait also compares the employers that use it with those that do not.","Part of every association here is this site's own ranking: the default order puts recently listed roles, roles that state their pay and roles at partner networks higher, and shows each visitor the roles open in their country first. A ratio describes the people who use this site, not a cause.","Clicks on an employer's general sign-up link (148 in the window) have no role and are left out."]},{"id":"demand-by-pay","title":"Applicants by pay level, within each kind of work","question":"Do better-paid roles draw more applicants than other roles of the same kind?","columns":[{"key":"group","label":"Pay level within its kind of work","unit":"text"},{"key":"index","label":"Within-kind index","unit":"index","decimals":2,"bar":true},{"key":"rate","label":"Clicks per role a week","unit":"decimal","decimals":2},{"key":"pay","label":"Median rate, per hour","unit":"usd"},{"key":"roles","label":"Roles","unit":"count","secondary":true},{"key":"weeks","label":"Open role-weeks","unit":"count","secondary":true},{"key":"clicks","label":"Clicks","unit":"count","secondary":true}],"rows":[{"key":"fifth-1","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Lowest fifth of its kind's rates","index":5.73,"rate":0.13,"pay":25,"roles":14,"weeks":39.5,"clicks":5}},{"key":"fifth-2","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Second fifth","index":1.95,"rate":0.1,"pay":22,"roles":30,"weeks":80,"clicks":8}},{"key":"fifth-3","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Middle fifth","index":0,"rate":0,"pay":31,"roles":6,"weeks":17.4,"clicks":0}},{"key":"fifth-4","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Fourth fifth","index":3.38,"rate":0.11,"pay":35,"roles":24,"weeks":73.9,"clicks":8}},{"key":"fifth-5","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Highest fifth","index":8.45,"rate":0.31,"pay":37,"roles":19,"weeks":44.7,"clicks":14}},{"key":"not-stated","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"No hourly rate stated","index":0.41,"rate":0.01,"pay":null,"roles":529,"weeks":1666,"clicks":18}}],"sample":"Roles listed from 12 Sep 2026 to 9 Oct 2026 in the 3 kinds of work with at least 25 roles stating an hourly rate (622 roles, 53 apply clicks).","notes":["Within-kind index: the clicks the group drew over the clicks it would have drawn at the average rate of its own kinds of work. 1.00x is that average; the rows of this figure add up to the same clicks observed and expected.","Fifths are formed within each kind of work from the advertised rates of its roles listed in the window, each role once, ties sharing a fifth; the median rate is across kinds, for scale.","Part of every association here is this site's own ranking: the default order puts recently listed roles, roles that state their pay and roles at partner networks higher, and shows each visitor the roles open in their country first. A ratio describes the people who use this site, not a cause."]},{"id":"demand-by-listing-age","title":"Applicants by listing age, within each kind of work","question":"How much more do new listings draw than older roles of the same kind?","columns":[{"key":"group","label":"Listing age","unit":"text"},{"key":"index","label":"Within-kind index","unit":"index","decimals":2,"bar":true},{"key":"rate","label":"Clicks per role a week","unit":"decimal","decimals":2},{"key":"roles","label":"Roles","unit":"count","secondary":true},{"key":"weeks","label":"Open role-weeks","unit":"count","secondary":true},{"key":"clicks","label":"Clicks","unit":"count","secondary":true}],"rows":[{"key":"week-1","thin":false,"cells":{"group":"First week","index":5.94,"rate":0.61,"roles":70,"weeks":60.4,"clicks":37}},{"key":"week-2","thin":false,"cells":{"group":"Second week","index":2.45,"rate":0.33,"roles":46,"weeks":92.1,"clicks":30}},{"key":"weeks-3-4","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Weeks 3 and 4","index":1.2,"rate":0.09,"roles":59,"weeks":155.3,"clicks":14}},{"key":"months-1-3","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"1 to 3 months","index":0.25,"rate":0.02,"roles":354,"weeks":1279,"clicks":26}},{"key":"over-3-months","thin":false,"cells":{"group":"More than 3 months","index":1.06,"rate":0.04,"roles":304,"weeks":1039.2,"clicks":39}},{"key":"unknown","thin":false,"cells":{"group":"Listing date unknown","index":2.89,"rate":1.01,"roles":14,"weeks":40.5,"clicks":41}}],"sample":"187 apply clicks on 847 roles listed at some point from 12 Sep 2026 to 9 Oct 2026, over 2,666 open role-weeks.","notes":["A listing's age is taken at the middle of the days it was open in the window, from its listing date (the job board's posting date, or else its first day in the feed).","Within-kind index: clicks over the clicks expected at the average rate of the role's own kind of work; the rows add up to the same clicks observed and expected.","Recency is a lever of this site's own default order, which puts recently listed roles first, so this figure reads the site's ranking as much as applicants' preference. A newer role is also more likely to be one people have not applied to yet.","Part of every association here is this site's own ranking: the default order puts recently listed roles, roles that state their pay and roles at partner networks higher, and shows each visitor the roles open in their country first. A ratio describes the people who use this site, not a cause."]},{"id":"demand-by-location-rule","title":"Applicants by who may apply, within each kind of work","question":"Do roles open worldwide draw more applicants than country-limited roles of the same kind?","columns":[{"key":"group","label":"Location rule","unit":"text"},{"key":"index","label":"Within-kind index","unit":"index","decimals":2,"bar":true},{"key":"rate","label":"Clicks per role a week","unit":"decimal","decimals":2},{"key":"roles","label":"Roles","unit":"count","secondary":true},{"key":"weeks","label":"Open role-weeks","unit":"count","secondary":true},{"key":"clicks","label":"Clicks","unit":"count","secondary":true}],"rows":[{"key":"global","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Open worldwide","index":4.02,"rate":1.98,"roles":7,"weeks":18.7,"clicks":37}},{"key":"us-only","thin":false,"cells":{"group":"Only the United States","index":0.92,"rate":0.07,"roles":423,"weeks":1217.4,"clicks":85}},{"key":"include-other","thin":false,"cells":{"group":"Only other listed countries","index":0.75,"rate":0.05,"roles":410,"weeks":1421.1,"clicks":64}},{"key":"unknown","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"No rule stated","index":4.79,"rate":0.11,"roles":7,"weeks":9.3,"clicks":1}}],"sample":"187 apply clicks on 847 roles listed at some point from 12 Sep 2026 to 9 Oct 2026, over 2,666 open role-weeks.","notes":["Only the United States: a rule that names the United States and no other country. Only other listed countries: every other include-list, whatever the countries.","Within-kind index: clicks over the clicks expected at the average rate of the role's own kind of work.","Each visitor is shown the roles open in their own country first, so a country-limited role is ranked first only for visitors from its countries.","Part of every association here is this site's own ranking: the default order puts recently listed roles, roles that state their pay and roles at partner networks higher, and shows each visitor the roles open in their country first. A ratio describes the people who use this site, not a cause."]},{"id":"pay-stated-by-kind","title":"Stating the pay, kind by kind","question":"In which kinds of work do roles that state an hourly rate draw more applicants than roles that do not?","columns":[{"key":"group","label":"Kind of work","unit":"text"},{"key":"ratio","label":"With / without","unit":"index","decimals":2,"bar":true},{"key":"withRate","label":"Clicks per role a week, rate stated","unit":"decimal","decimals":2},{"key":"withoutRate","label":"No rate stated","unit":"decimal","decimals":2},{"key":"n","label":"Roles with / without","unit":"text","secondary":true},{"key":"c","label":"Clicks with / without","unit":"text","secondary":true}],"rows":[{"key":"fleet-ops","href":"/roles/fleet-ops","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Robot Fleet Operations","ratio":30.73,"withRate":0.34,"withoutRate":0.01,"n":"25 / 108","c":"22 / 3"}},{"key":"demonstration-collection","href":"/roles/demonstration-collection","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Data & Demonstration Collection","ratio":14.03,"withRate":0.55,"withoutRate":0.04,"n":"18 / 48","c":"30 / 7"}},{"key":"av-drone-operator","href":"/roles/av-drone-operator","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"AV & Drone Operators","ratio":10.38,"withRate":0.06,"withoutRate":0.01,"n":"43 / 332","c":"7 / 7"}},{"key":"teleoperation","href":"/roles/teleoperation","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Robot Teleoperation","ratio":2.26,"withRate":0.08,"withoutRate":0.03,"n":"25 / 89","c":"6 / 8"}}],"sample":"Roles listed from 12 Sep 2026 to 9 Oct 2026 in the 4 of 7 kinds of work with at least 10 roles and 30 open role-weeks both stating and not stating an hourly rate.","notes":["Rows with fewer than 30 clicks, 10 roles or 3 roles open on an average day on either side are marked: a few popular roles can move them.","Whether a role states its pay is mostly set by the employer's posting template, so within a kind of work this also compares employers with one another.","Part of every association here is this site's own ranking: the default order puts recently listed roles, roles that state their pay and roles at partner networks higher, and shows each visitor the roles open in their country first. A ratio describes the people who use this site, not a cause."]}]}