Specialised work for specialised minds
If your training was hard-won, your rate should reflect it. These are the categories OBG publishes briefs in every week, with indicative rate bands from the briefs we currently pay for.
Mathematics & STEM
Olympiad-level problem authoring, proof grading, advanced reasoning evaluation across pure and applied math, physics, chemistry.
$35–60 / hrSoftware engineering
Code preference rating, security review, polyglot debugging across 30+ languages and frameworks.
$40–75 / hrLaw
Jurisdiction-specific legal reasoning, contract analysis, statute interpretation, and model output review.
$50–90 / hrMedical & life sciences
Clinical accuracy review, pharmacology fact-check, rubrics restricted to MD, DO, PhD, PharmD, RN credentials.
$55–110 / hrLinguistics & translation
Native fluency ranking, MTPE, localization for 80+ language pairs. Premium rates for low-resource languages.
$0.10–0.22 / wordFinance & economics
Quant reasoning, market analysis writing, CFA-tier model evaluation, options & derivatives review.
$45–80 / hrSpeech & audio
Voice annotation, accent capture, prompt+response audio generation across L1 and L2 speakers.
$22–38 / hrSearch & relevance
Side-by-side ranking, query interpretation, e-commerce intent labelling, ad evaluation.
$18–30 / hrEducation & humanities
Essay grading, pedagogical rubric authoring, philosophy, history, classics, and theology review.
$25–45 / hrVision & multimodal
Image captioning, video annotation, document AI evaluation, OCR quality review.
$22–42 / hrScientific writing
Domain-true prompt authoring, citation grounding, technical accuracy review for published lab content.
$35–65 / hrTrade & vocational
Underrepresented expertise (electrical, HVAC, automotive, culinary) is in high demand and very well paid.
$28–55 / hr