LinkedIn named data annotators the fourth-fastest-growing job role in the US this year, as AI training shifts toward high-paid specialists. Radiologist Anu Brixey earns in an hour what generalist data worker Brook Hansen makes in a week. Recruiters now seek software engineers, condensed matter experts and civil rights attorneys at rates up to $400 per hour, while lower-paid generalists report harder tasks and scarcer work. Researchers caution that most data work remains low-wage and precarious.
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