Which pays more, SME Careers or Welo Data?

SME Careers advertises more: a median top rate of $45/hr against $10/hr at Welo Data. These are the rates in open listings (263 on SME Careers, 67 on Welo Data), not earnings; each platform sets individual pay after you apply.

Which has more open roles, SME Careers or Welo Data?

Welo Data has more open roles: 523 against 264 on SME Careers. Counts are refreshed daily from each platform's public listings.

How is applying to SME Careers different from Welo Data?

SME Careers: SME Careers places credentialed professionals, so expect your credentials and domain expertise to be reviewed.

SME Careers vs Welo Data

Two AI-training platforms side by side, from the roles they have open today and what we know about how each hires and pays. Numbers refresh daily.

SME Careers advertises more: a median top rate of $45/hr against $10/hr at Welo Data.
Welo Data has more open roles: 523 against 264 on SME Careers.
Welo Data is open to more places: 6% of its roles name no country restriction, against 0%.

Side by side

	SME Careers	Welo Data
Open roles	264	523
Median top rate	$45/hr	$10/hr
Middle half of rates	$25/hr – $70/hr	$7/hr – $19/hr
Highest advertised	$150/hr	$68/hr
Open worldwide	0% of roles	6% of roles
Hires most for	Languages & translation, Software engineering, Science & research	Languages & translation, Business & consulting, Software engineering
Kinds of work	—	—
After you apply	SME Careers places credentialed professionals, so expect your credentials and domain expertise to be reviewed.	—
How it pays	—	—

Rates are what open listings advertise (median of the top of each range), not earnings. How we measure pay

SME Careers

Subject-matter-expert contractor roles across professional domains.

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Welo Data

Welocalize's data services — multilingual annotation and evaluation.

Welo Data jobs and pay →Read our review