Pay index · over time

How AI work pay is moving

Every point is a dated observation with its sample size: our own daily snapshots, the day before they began reconstructed from our ingestion logs, and Internet Archive captures of the platforms' own listings pages parsed with the same rules. Points are never interpolated, and a platform gets a trend line only once it has 14 observations across 14 days.

Each change below is measured from the platform's first median on or after 2026-08-26, the first full day on the current counting basis. Medians before the 2026-08-25 basis change were counted differently, so a move across that date is the method changing, not the market. RWS TrainAI's change is measured from 2026-10-07 instead, the first full day after it was listed again here on 2026-10-06 without its Search Engine Evaluator roles.

Platforms without a public feed have no history to show. Platforms below the distinct-rate minimum never enter a median, so its line stays empty until it publishes a verifiable rate. Methodology · today's index