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Expert annotators earn $90 an hour to feed the loop

development2025-12-30

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Expert annotators are earning $90 per hour through platforms like Mercor to supply training data.

Reported metric: $90/hr

Reporting date: 2025-12-30 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to December 30, 2025 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

The same issue that prices remote labor at $80B pays humans a premium to produce the data that would replace them.

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Welcome to December 30, 2025

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Mercor

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Expert annotators earn $90 an hour to feed the loop
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2025-12-30
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2025-12-30-annotators-90-per-hour
Claim: Expert annotators are earning $90 per hour through platforms like Mercor to supply training data.
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- Welcome to December 30, 2025 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-december-30-2025
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