AI Data Annotator
🏷️Labels images, text and audio to train neural networks: outlines objects, rates chatbot answers, corrects model mistakes.
Prospects & pay
What the work is like
💼 Job market
🇺🇸 $45.1k a year on average · -25.5% jobs by 2035 · 7,700 openings a year
Data entry keyers — US: Census ACS 2020–24 (full-time), BLS projections 2025–35
🇬🇧 £28.3k median a year · 12,000 jobs
Data entry administrators — UK: ONS ASHE 2025 (full-time)
🤖 AI & automation
Models already handle simple labelling themselves. Expert annotation remains (doctors, lawyers and coders rating AI), but as a side job to a main career.
Who it suits
Interests: 🗂️ Order, paperwork, systems, 💻 Coding and digital, ✍️ Writing and literature.
Key strengths: attention to detail, organisation.
Where to study
- Course Platform onboarding and short annotation courses
- Bachelor's A degree in the expert field (for expert annotation)
Key school subjects (A-level / IB / AP): English Literature, Computer Science.
🧗 Basic labelling needs only school and online onboarding. Only expert annotation pays well, and it requires a degree and experience in a field such as medicine, law or coding.
Things to know
🪑 Sitting at a computer all day
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