OpenTrain

Students Across All Disciplines AI Evaluation Contributor

You will assess AI-related content for accuracy, depth, clarity, and overall quality within your academic discipline. Your work may include written, visual, and diagram-based materials.

Field: Generalist
Where: United States, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Australia +89 more
Posted: yesterday

How this pay compares

The title points to rating and reviewing ai output: judging a model's answers or code against guidelines, such as which of two is better or whether one is correct and safe. What each kind of AI training work pays

At $100/hr, this role pays more than 84% of the 206 open generalist roles with a listed pay range, above the median of $60.

Among platforms with 10 or more priced generalist roles, Alignerr has the highest median ($80/hr across 17 roles) and micro1 the lowest ($50/hr across 54).

OpenTrain AI roles that closed since late October stayed listed a median of 31 days (122 roles). OpenTrain AI posted this one yesterday.

Computed from 2,746 open roles we track across Mercor, micro1, Handshake AI, Alignerr, Appen and OpenTrain AI, refreshed daily. Midpoints of listed ranges; “up to” ceilings are left out of medians.

What you would earn at this rate

Rate

$100/hr

Hours a week15 hrs

Per week, before tax

$1,500

Per month, if the work is steady

$6,500

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Tax: Contract pay arrives with no tax withheld. A US contractor at this rate and these hours would set aside about $1,643 a month for self-employment tax plus federal income tax at the 12% bracket (25%, before state tax). Outside the US, your own country's rules apply.

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Open generalist roles on each platform

The same kind of work, priced on every platform we track, with the best-paid open role on each.

Platform	Open	Median	Best-paid open role
Alignerr	17	$80/hr	Frontier Data Lead – Client Success & AI Partnerships$85-120/hr
Mercor	22	$63/hr	Luxury Automotive Strategy Expert$300-350/hr
OpenTrain AIthis role	115	$61/hr	Contract Manager and Negotiator (English)$150/hr
micro1	60	$50/hr	Member of Technical Staff, Enterprise AI$300k-700k/yr
Handshake AI	24	up to $88/hr	Intelligence Expert (Bachelor's, Master's and PhDs) - AI TrainerUp to $200/hr

“Up to” rows list only ceilings, so their median is a maximum, not comparable with the range midpoints above them.

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The full listing

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The work

You will assess AI-related content for accuracy, depth, clarity, and overall quality within your academic discipline. Your work may include written, visual, and diagram-based materials.

You will explain your decisions clearly, identify errors and missing context, and complete defined annotation tasks during project windows.

Evaluate content using knowledge from your academic field
Write clear explanations and structured reasons for your ratings
Find errors, ambiguity, missing context, and other quality issues
Interpret materials such as schematics, spectra, maps, clinical images, artworks, and data charts
Complete project-based evaluation and annotation assignments

What it pays and takes

This is remote, asynchronous, project-based work designed to fit around academic commitments. It is open to eligible undergraduate students in the countries listed for the role.

Pay: $100 per hour
Work setup: Remote and asynchronous
Education: Current junior or senior undergraduate at a research university
Academic background: Strong academic standing and genuine subject-matter knowledge in your field
Communication: Clear, well-reasoned English for explaining discipline-specific judgments
Skills: Understanding of your field's visual conventions and technical vocabulary
Equipment: Reliable internet access
Helpful experience: Lab research, research assistance, independent study, or a thesis
Helpful experience: Image-based or visual data such as microscopy, imaging, CAD, GIS, spectroscopy, diagrams, or archival materials
Helpful experience: Annotation, data labeling, AI evaluation, large language models, multimodal systems, or quantitative methods

How it works

Apply on OpenTrain with your resume, then complete the application on the hiring site.

About AI training work

AI training is the human work behind better artificial intelligence, including reviewing content, rating model responses, and labeling data. People with strong academic or professional knowledge help identify issues that general reviewers may miss, making their expertise useful for specialized evaluation projects.

From applying to your first payment on OpenTrain AI

1
Create a profile
Create a free OpenTrain profile with your domains, languages and hourly rate.
2
Apply
Apply to the listing. Some listings hire through OpenTrain; others send you to the hiring platform.
3
Funded milestones
The client funds each milestone before work starts.
4
First payment
OpenTrain pays out to your connected payout method when the client approves the milestone. It doesn't publish a fixed payout schedule.

Sources: OpenTrain: AI training careers, OpenTrain docs: invoicing and payouts

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Pay history

OpenTrain AI has listed this role at $100/hr since Nov 10, 2026 with no change.

Across OpenTrain AI's generalist roles, the median listed pay was $40/hr on Nov 1, 2026 (50 roles) and is $61/hr as of Nov 11, 2026 (114 roles).

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