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title: "AI Data Trainer"
description: "Writes example answers, ranks chatbot responses and labels data so that large language models learn to give accurate, helpful and safe replies."
canonical: "https://nuecareer.com/careers/ai-data-trainer"
last-updated: "2026-10-09T10:57:55.138Z"
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# AI Data Trainer

**Category:** Office and Administrative Support · **SOC code:** 43-9081 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 43-9081.00

Writes example answers, ranks chatbot responses and labels data so that large language models learn to give accurate, helpful and safe replies.

Also advertised as: RLHF Specialist; AI Trainer; AI Tutor; Generative AI Writing Evaluator; Data Annotation Specialist.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $51,120 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $24.58/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $34,510 to $79,290, with the middle half between $41,170 and $62,390
- **Total US employment:** 4,580
- **Typical entry education:** Bachelor's
- **Preparation required:** Medium preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** -0.9% over 2025–2035 (BLS EP, 2025–2035)
- **Annual job openings:** 1,100 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 0/100 — a NueCareer heuristic over O\*NET work activities and context, not a BLS or O\*NET figure

## Pay

National wage distribution, BLS OEWS, May 2025, across 4,580 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $34,510 |
| 25th | $41,170 |
| 50th (median) | $51,120 |
| 75th | $62,390 |
| 90th | $79,290 |
| Mean (average) | $54,800 |

### Pay by state

The 15 highest-paying states, by median annual wage. The cost-of-living-adjusted column divides the state median by that state's BEA Regional Price Parity, so the columns answer different questions: the first is what the job pays there, the second is what that pay buys there.

| State | Median annual wage | Cost-of-living adjusted | Employment |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DC | $68,120 | $61,983 | 50 |
| NY | $59,740 | $55,355 | 1,030 |
| CA | $57,490 | $51,924 | 300 |
| MA | $57,160 | $54,048 | 190 |
| NJ | $56,700 | $52,112 | 160 |
| OH | $55,560 | $59,887 | 100 |
| MD | $53,920 | $51,372 | Not published by BLS |
| WA | $53,890 | $50,358 | 60 |
| MO | $52,920 | $58,271 | 110 |
| KS | $51,160 | $56,802 | 90 |
| IL | $50,060 | $50,081 | 300 |
| MN | $49,450 | $50,141 | Not published by BLS |
| GA | $49,200 | $51,094 | Not published by BLS |
| VA | $48,090 | $47,565 | 90 |
| PA | $47,510 | $48,692 | 230 |

11 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 26 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/ai-data-trainer/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/ai-data-trainer.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 8,500 in the 2025–2035 base year to 8,500 by the end of the cycle — a loss of 100 jobs, or -0.9%. Declining: -0.9% against 3.5% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 1,100 openings a year are expected on average, counting openings from growth as well as from workers leaving the occupation permanently. Source: BLS EP, 2025–2035.

## How to get in

- **Typical entry education:** Bachelor's degree (BLS Employment Projections).
- **Preparation level:** Medium preparation — O\*NET's preparation band for this occupation is "Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed".
- **Related work experience typically required:** None.
- **Typical on-the-job training:** None.

### Education people in this job actually hold

O\*NET surveys incumbents, so this distribution describes who is in the job today and can differ from the BLS entry requirement above.

| Education level | Share of workers |
| --- | --- |
| Bachelor's Degree | 47.3% |
| Associate's Degree or other 2-year degree | 23.2% |
| Some College Courses | 12.0% |
| High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED) | 11.2% |
| Post-Secondary Certificate | 6.2% |

## What the work involves

- Rank multiple model responses to the same prompt against written guidelines
- Write model-quality example answers for training datasets
- Fact-check claims made in model outputs
- Explain in writing why one response is better than another
- Write tricky prompts that expose weaknesses in a model
- Label text, code or images by category, quality or safety risk
- Review other trainers' work for accuracy and consistency

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Reading Comprehension — importance 4.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speaking — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Listening — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Critical Thinking — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 2.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Learning Strategies — importance 2.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Transferable skills

These are the skills that carry into other occupations, and they drive the related-occupation and career-change rankings on this site.

- Time Management — importance 2.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 2.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Complex Problem Solving — importance 2.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Quality Control Analysis — importance 2.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Social Perceptiveness — importance 2.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 2.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Systems Analysis — importance 2.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Systems Evaluation — importance 2.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- English Language — importance 5.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Communications and Media — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Computers and Electronics — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administrative — importance 2.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administration and Management — importance 2.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Customer and Personal Service — importance 2.2 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Written Comprehension — importance 4.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Near Vision — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Comprehension — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Expression — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Expression — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Problem Sensitivity — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

## Who it suits

O\*NET rates every occupation on the six Holland (RIASEC) interest areas, on a 1–7 scale. This occupation's strongest areas are Conventional (C), Artistic (A), Investigative (I).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| C — Conventional | 6.16 |
| A — Artistic | 3.98 |
| I — Investigative | 3.42 |
| S — Social | 2.20 |
| E — Enterprising | 1.53 |
| R — Realistic | 1.44 |

### Personality fit

These scores are **derived by NueCareer**, not published by any government agency: they are cosine similarities between a personality type's trait profile and this occupation's O\*NET interest and work-style ratings, expressed 0–100. Treat them as a starting point for exploration, not as evidence that a type belongs in a job.

| Type | Fit score (0–100) |
| --- | --- |
| ISFJ | 66.7 |
| ISTJ | 66.3 |
| INTJ | 65.9 |
| INFJ | 64.3 |
| ESTJ | 54.8 |

Best-fitting types: ISFJ, ISTJ, INTJ, INFJ.

## Related occupations

O\*NET's primary related occupations, in its own ranked order.

- [Proofreader and Copy Marker](https://nuecareer.com/careers/proofreader-and-copy-marker) — median $51,120
- [Editor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/editor) — median $77,920
- [Desktop Publisher](https://nuecareer.com/careers/desktop-publisher) — median $55,290
- [Technical Writer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/technical-writer) — median $90,390
- [Word Processor and Typist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/word-processor-and-typist) — median $49,280
- [File Clerk](https://nuecareer.com/careers/file-clerk) — median $43,600
- [Writer and Author](https://nuecareer.com/careers/writer-and-author) — median $76,910
- [Data Entry Keyer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/data-entry-keyer) — median $41,340
- [Document Management Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/document-management-specialist) — median $116,580
- [Film and Video Editor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/film-and-video-editor) — median $75,420

## Sources

- **O\*NET** — O\*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS OEWS** — BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS EP** — BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2, 2025–2035. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **BEA RPP** — BEA Regional Price Parities by State, 2024. https://www.bea.gov/data/prices-inflation/regional-price-parities-state-and-metro-area

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

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