Appen
Long-running AI data company that recruits independent contractors for project-based recording, rating and annotation work.
Checked 12 October 2026
Midpoint of each listed range. 14 of 52 Appen roles list one; 1,340 of 1,695 across all platforms do.
Who Appen hires
Open roles by field, out of 52. Fields are this site's rough guide, read from each title.
How applying works
Pick a role here
Each row below opens the role page on this site, with the link to the posting on Appen. 14 of 52 roles show an hourly rate on the listing.
Apply on Appen's page
You apply there, not here. Openings change, so a role seen yesterday may be gone.
What happens next
Each posting links to an application on Appen's Lever board. Later steps (qualification tests, project onboarding) were not verified first-hand for this page. No public referral program was found.
Open Appen roles
The 30 newest of the 52 roles on Appen's public portal today. The button under the list opens all 52 in the finder.
We are not the employer and nothing here is an offer.
The review
What Appen is
Appen is a long-running company that collects and labels data for AI, using remote contractors. Its openings are on a Lever job board (api.lever.co). Lever's documentation notes that postings may be scraped by third parties (postings API docs).
Who it hires
On 2026-10-09 the board listed 54 independent-contractor roles. The mix was mainly speech and language data work: 13 voice recording roles, 13 speech collection roles, 12 mobile device data collection roles and 9 transcription roles, with a few others. This is not a source of high-end expert work.
Listed pay
The structured salary field on Appen postings is not a real hourly rate: the values seen were 15 labelled one-time, 0.03 and 0.01, which look like per-unit amounts. Because of that, this site hides the field. The description text sometimes states payment: a voice recording role at about $0.030 per unit, mobile device data collection at $2 to $5 and up to $17 to $43 per session, a Kansai dialect speaker at $40, a Thai translation role at $25 and a Vietnamese validator at $10.50 per hour. These are rates as listed in single postings and they differ a lot by task.
Countries
Roles are tied to a language or locale, so each posting names its own place. A complete list of eligible countries was not verified.
Is Appen legit?
Evidence in favour: it is an established, long-running data company and it posts its roles on its own board. Evidence against or open: this page gathered no independent worker reports, so payment reliability and how steady the work is are not verified. Per-unit and per-session pay can work out low per hour, and a role being open does not mean work is available.
Payment
The payment method and schedule were not stated in the postings read, so they are not verified.
Pros and cons
- Pro: accessible tasks in many languages, including smaller ones.
- Pro: some postings state the amount in the text.
- Con: per-unit rates such as $0.030 make hourly earnings hard to estimate.
- Con: the structured pay field is unreliable.
- Con: mostly short, task-style work.
On this site
This site lists Appen roles automatically from the public Lever feed, once a day, in a separate "Language and voice work" section, with the unreliable salary field hidden. The apply button goes to Appen's own page without a referral code. This site is independent of Appen.
Questions people ask
What work does Appen offer?
On 2026-10-09 it listed 54 contractor roles, mainly voice recording, speech collection, mobile data collection and transcription.
What does Appen pay?
The salary field is not a real hourly rate. Some descriptions give per-unit or per-session amounts, which vary a lot.
Is Appen legit?
It is an established data company posting on its own board. Payment reliability was not independently verified.
Does this site list Appen jobs automatically?
Yes, in a separate language and voice section, from the public Lever feed.