The Task Ledger

Understanding the Two Main Pay Structures When you look into paid data annotation work, you will quickly notice that platforms and projects use two main ways to pay: an hourly rate or a piece rate (also called task pay). An hourly rate means you are paid for the time you spend working, regardless of how many tasks you complete. Task pay means you receive a fixed amount for each annotation you finish, such as bounding boxes, text classification, or image tagging. Both approa