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"Life of a data labeler" is a wildly inaccurate description for "we asked some of our labelers for times when working for Scale made a positive difference in their lives."

What's the median hourly pay for a Scale data labeler? What fraction of their employees enjoy working for Scale? What's their six month retention rate? Amazon's Mechanical Turk has a reputation for grinding people up and burning them out; what makes Scale better?



Specifics are intentionally hidden, but it seems like the median hourly wage is somewhere around $1-$2.50 an hour.

The labeler side of scale is hosted at "remotasks.com" and they run IP checks to try and ensure that only people from certain countries can sign up to label data. Also a Facebook account is required for signup...




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