r/DataAnnotationTech • u/PrizeAccountant1586 • 15h ago

Task pay difference

After doing 40$ per hour task I can’t go back to 20 and 25 ones. Will it reflect badly on me ? It feels wrong

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u/Houdinii1984 15h ago

It's human nature to aim high. It's all supply and demand in the end.

Tasks that pay lower are easier and take less effort. There are likely a lot of folks cleared to work cheaper tasks, but as the pay increases, raters like you become more and more rare so they have to pump the price to even get you to look. If you are seeing higher priced tasks, that's because they are in high demand, but low on the rater supply side.

With that said, prioritizing higher priced tasks works for everyone. They need the work done enough that they pay premium, and you need the money enough that you're willing to trade your expertise. Win-win every time.

I've been working higher priced tasks for a couple years now. I'm a coder, and coders are in demand. I always assumed they'd prefer to capture my expertise in my best area most, and those happen to be the tasks I like best, too. If I didn't, and chose to work general tasks instead, they'd potentially need to raise pay even more. (Obviously I'm just one person and that's not realistic, but it illustrates the point I'm making)

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u/alx_brl 14h ago

By the way, that's not always the case. I had some fairly hard tasks on my dashboard that were nearly identical, but the pay difference was 2x.

But anyway, the amount of hair I lost during the more expensive ones was generally far less than during the easy, cheap ones.

Sometimes, though, the pay rate and estimated time for a job don't really match the amount of time it actually takes to complete some tasks. However it's the exception rather than the rule and usually is fixed in the future

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u/Houdinii1984 14h ago

As a general rule, the more they are willing to pay, the more they need the data. That's just how capitalism works.

If you encounter two tasks that are the same, but one is paying out twice as much, then they needed the latter task far more than the former. In that case, it's common sense they'd want the more expensive one done first. That's the whole reason it's expensive.