Doctors and Lawyers Are Training AI Models for Hundreds an Hour

Advanced-degree professionals are commanding premium rates as AI labs increasingly pay specialists to evaluate models with expert judgment. AI model training has shifted decisively from low-wage crowdsourced data labeling toward expertise-driven evaluation, with physicians, attorneys, and engineers now billing $80 to $450 per hour—and some reaching $1,000 per hour—to provide domain-specific feedback on model outputs.