What does it really pay you?
A 94-page playbook and a tracker for people starting AI training or data annotation work: prepare, pass the assessment, find your real hourly rate and spot the scams.
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- Edition 1.0 · October 2026
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The problem
Sound familiar?
The advert says $20 an hour. Once you count the assessment, the unpaid training and the weeks with no tasks, your real rate can look very different, and nobody shows you how to measure it.
- You may only get one attempt at an assessment and you don't know how to prepare.
- You can't tell whether a recruiter or platform is real before you hand over an ID.
- You don't know your real hourly rate once unpaid and waiting time is counted.
- You haven't thought about tax on contractor income.
A practical playbook for AI training and data annotation work. It explains what the work is, how to work out your real hourly rate, how to choose two or three platforms, a seven-day preparation plan, a method for the assessment, scam checks, tax basics for contractors and a thirty-day plan that ends in a keep, change or stop decision. It does not recommend a platform or promise a rate.
What you get
Everything in the download
The playbook (94 pages)
What the work actually is and where it came from; what three platforms say about themselves; your real hourly rate; the downsides and the legal debate; a seven-day prep plan; passing the assessment, with six worked comparisons; the first weeks after acceptance; tracking and the weekly review; scams, including the FTC's task-scam pattern; tax and records with 2026 figures; moving up or moving on; a thirty-day plan; and a full source list.
AI Training Tracker (xlsx)
Platform scorer with weights you set; prep plan; time log for paid, unpaid and waiting hours; payout log; real-rate calculator with paid rate, real rate, run-rate and a verdict per platform; tax set-aside planner; scam check; weekly review; keep, change or stop decision sheet.
Practice sheets, worked examples and templates
A comparison sheet, six fully worked comparisons, forty practice prompts, a reusable rubric, ten message templates, a one-page red-flag checklist, a glossary, a sheet-by-sheet tracker walkthrough and a source list.
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Inside the manual
What it covers
- 01What the work actually is
- 02Your real hourly rate
- 03Choosing two or three platforms
- 04Before you apply
- 05Passing the assessment
- 06The first weeks after acceptance
- 07Tracking and the weekly review
- 08Scams and red flags
- 09Tax and records
- 10Moving up, or moving on
- 11The thirty-day plan
When you've worked through it
What you'll have
- A short list of platforms scored on criteria you chose
- A prepared assessment, not a rushed one
- Your real hourly rate, platform by platform, after unpaid time
- A written floor and stop rule, and a verdict against it
Fit check
Is this for you?
It's for you if
- People starting AI training or data annotation work who want to know what it really pays them
- People who have been accepted and can't tell whether the work is worth their time
It's not for you if
- Anyone who needs steady income this month
- Anyone planning to paste AI-written answers into tasks
- Anyone who expects to be accepted everywhere
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