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.

• Mercor$78/hr median · -6% since 2026-07-24 · 17 obs since 2026-07-24
• CrowdGen by Appenno median yet · 5 obs since 2026-08-19 · collecting
• Meridial (Invisible)$24/hr median · -29% since 2026-08-19 · 5 obs since 2026-08-19 · collecting
• Mindriftno median yet · 5 obs since 2026-08-19 · collecting
• RWS TrainAI$11/hr median · +10% since 2026-08-19 · 5 obs since 2026-08-19 · collecting
• Welo Data (Welocalize)$22/hr median · 0% since 2026-08-19 · 5 obs since 2026-08-19 · collecting

Platforms without a public feed have no history to show. Mindrift publishes only “up to” ceilings, which never enter a median, so its line stays empty until it publishes a verifiable rate. Methodology · today's index