ApAppen Jobs

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.

How applying works

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.

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.