Friday Flash: 425 new gigs this week
425 new AI training listings posted in the last 7 days — a deep, finance-heavy week. The top of the pay table went to domain-expert finance tracks (public equities, trading and derivatives, quant research) reaching $150/hr, while STEM led on sheer volume and annotation work surged underneath. Whatever your background, there’s a tier for you — an expert tier where a specific credential earns a triple-digit rate, a mid tier of evaluation and review, and an entry tier that needs no degree. The average this week landed around $89/hr. Apply to a few before Monday — weekend applicants land in shorter queues than the mid-week rush.
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425
New this week
$150/hr
Top hourly
$89/hr
Avg hourly
stem
Led on volume
What caught our eye this week
The standout: finance set the ceiling
The story this week is a split between where the money is and where the volume is. Finance-expert work set the ceiling — public-equities analysis, trading and derivatives, and quant research posted at the very top of the table, reaching $150/hr. These want genuine buy-side or dealmaking judgment, not generic knowledge, and they pay for the scarcity. Underneath, STEM led on volume— a deep bench of masters-and-up roles in mathematics and the sciences — with annotation work surging as the accessible entry point. If your background is finance or quant, open the top rows first; if it’s academic or technical, the volume this week is genuinely on your side.
The tiers, quickly
Entry ($15–50/hr, no degree): voice recording in your native accent, data annotation, and general AI-output rating. A quiet room, a stable connection, and care are the only requirements.
Mid ($50–150/hr): your day job probably has an AI-training equivalent at a similar rate — evaluation and review work across coding, operations, education, and finance.
Expert ($130–400/hr): medicine, law, senior finance, and frontier engineering, where a specific credential is the gate and the pay reflects genuine scarcity.
Volume: 425 new listings this week, led by stem(179). Grouped below by pay tier so you can jump straight to your band.
This week’s top-paying gigs
The three highest hourly rates posted in the last 7 days.
Check AI electrical engineering work against real practice
Contribute to research on children’s smartphones and wellbeing
Build real systems and solve hard problems with advanced Python
One-time projects
Fixed-payment projects that wrap in a single engagement — no recurring hours. See the full one-time category →
Contribute non-native French speech in a 30-minute remote study
Solid mid-tier — $50–99/hr
Generalist evaluation, coding review, and specialist roles that don’t always need a domain credential — often the fastest to start earning from.
Expert Project Manager
Own AI browsing projects from contributor quality through delivery
Also worth a look
Quick-apply list — rounding out the week.
Methodology
A listing counts as new when our tracker first sees it on a platform’s own job board. This week’s window: 2026-07-24 to 2026-07-31. Every Apply button carries the correct attribution — you go straight to the source’s application page, no SignalGigs account required. Pay ranges are parsed from the source listing; if a rate looks off, check the underlying post.
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Frequently asked questions
What new AI training jobs were posted this week (July 31, 2026)?
425 new AI training listings appeared on tracked sources between 2026-07-24 and 2026-07-31, with an average hourly rate of $89/hr. Sorted by pay, grouped by tier so you can jump straight to the roles that fit your background.
Do I need a degree or credential for these roles?
It depends on the tier. The entry tier (under $30/hr) — voice recording, data annotation, general AI-output rating — needs no degree, just attention to detail. The expert tier ($130/hr and up) needs a specific credential: board certification for medical, a law degree plus bar admission for legal, or years of operating experience for engineering and senior finance. The mid tier sits in between.
How does the pay work, and when do I get paid?
Almost all of these are contract-hourly roles paid in USD, typically weekly, via the source platform's own payment system. The schedule is asynchronous — you log in when you have time, pick up tasks, and submit. Most people who do this alongside a main job put in 5–15 hours a week.
What counts as "new this week"?
Every listing below was first detected by our tracker within the 7 days ending 2026-07-31. Listings are collected from the platforms’ own job boards, and are closed once they have been missing from their source across several refreshes.