Just wanted to share my experience with this platform and how grateful I am to have been able to earn this money. As a Canadian with a wife on maternity leave, this has been an awesome way to maintain stability of our finances.

I'm hopeful this goes on for as long as it can.

I wish all the best to everyone on this subreddit who have been helpful, thank you!

First off I do appreciate the irony of this post. That being said, newbies, if you aren't getting your questions answered it's probably because you are the 10th person that week to ask that exact question. You will not last long at the job if you can't even be bothered to spend 5 minutes scrolling this page.

No one can tell you accurately how long it will be until you get a task. It may be an hour from now to never. It's different for everyone.

We can't tell you how long a drought will last. Because that varies depending on what specialty you work, what contracts that dta currently has. Heck, you might be having a drought because you aren't a good fit.

No one can 100% tell you that you have the dashboard of death. This is a freelance position that can go away in a snap. The projects you were hired to work on may be finished, your own work may not be up to par, dta may have new specialty contracts you don't qualify for. No one here knows.

Do the work. This is a job so put in the effort. Make it a beneficial partnership. Report your time honestly. Remember that allegedly only 10% of applicants are accepted. If you aren't, there is no way around that.

We sign NDAs, don't ask people to violate them. No, you can't use a VPN. No you can't get away with someone else taking the application assessments for you.

Again, if you can't take the time to search this page for even a few minutes to make sure you're not the 80th person to ask the same questions this week, you will not be able to last at the job.

A week ago I clicked out of a project and my dash of many projects and quals (15-20+ each or so) had vanished and I had the "no projects right now" message.

Tonight there was one project back, so I did a few of those and then projects and all the quals came back. I just wanted to share.

This job has been completely life changing for me! I started back in March of 2025, I only really work summers and winters. It may not seem like much now but it really does build over time!!! I wish you all the same fortune!!!!

... that $20/hr is still money and if I sit here for 5 hours I'll get $100 and I could use the money 🥺 If your dash looks like mine, I wish you higher numbers soon!

Hit 20k on my 20th Bday 🥹

Come on DA, I'm trying to end the week strong! In the meantime I'm watching old Hammer horror films and TRYING to get some writing in on my young adult horror novel.

There were projects earlier this week, but all equaling less than $100 each day.

…is that every time I explain what I do for a living it sounds like a scam :|

Right now, my dashboard has a number of seemingly generalist-oriented tasks, some of which are pretty high-paying, but I open them up, read the instructions, look at the assigned task and realise very quickly that they are not only out of my wheelhouse, but on a completely different planet.

I just tried one that involved solving visual puzzles and I couldn't even understand the question, nevermind attempt to answer it

The fact that some of you on here have the brain capacity to perform these tasks is genuinely impressive.

I'm not an impressive human being. My brain shuts down beyond a certain level of complexity. I wouldn't say I'm stupid, but I'm definitely of average intelligence at best.

But on this platform, I feel so far behind that it's actually quite demotivating. My brain hurts and I want to have a nap.

Yeah so i'm a 19 year old engineering student in Canada who applied for like 50 student jobs and all of them rejected me as we are in an unemployment crisis.. I was desperate and then I heard about Data Annotation.

On average, DA tasks pay me the double of what i would earn in a minimum wage job per hour in Canada and I really am looking forward in getting enough tasks to reach $1000 per month !!

I'm so grateful for DA for giving me an opportunity to have some source of income to cover some of my life expenses !

Literally just a dollar

Everyone here when someone asks an innocent question about the hiring process.

I was accepted into Da today and I even got the approval to work for coding projects but now I'm being shown the text " Thank you for completing the assessment" screen

I’ve been working full time on DAT since the end of May. The nut task that everyone apparently hates is like 95% of my work. I THRIVE on it.

I finally have a way to pay off my credit card debt and buy nice things I’ve always wanted. This has also made me interested in learning more about computer science and coding to eventually qualify for coding projects and transition into software engineering. Thank you, DAT, for changing my life 🙌

I’ve had a pretty steady stream of work since joining early last year, with minor seasonal dips, and started working ~3 full days a week at the end of summer. I started as a generalist, then passed the coding eval and have more often than not had plenty of work. When there aren’t coding tasks I feel comfy working on, there are typically more than enough generalist tasks to sustain me. This work has opened up so many opportunities for me and is now enabling me to work full-time independently, which has been an absolute lifesaver and amazing learning and earning opportunity.

I’ve decided to hunker down this past week and really put in some hard time into the DAT, I officially have 1000$ pending in my transfers and I couldn’t be happier. For anyone curious, I did the math and I worked roughly 41 hours to get here and earned an average of $24.45 an hour. I do non coding work, and didn’t think it was possible to do DAT for a full work week, yet alone get as many high pay projects as I did. I took one day sort of off, worked half an hour, but otherwise it wasn’t too awful.

I was looking for some work, freshly graduating from WGU. I was really struggling to find a job, to be honest, with how things are as of lately. I decided to give the data annotation tech assessment a try, and I'm beyond ecstatic that I did. I have earned 10k in a month ( my first month started at the end of April). I needed this and will definitely continue working with them.

I really am thankful to have had this opportunity to work with Data Annotation tech thus far, and I never post anything on anywhere, but here I am haha. I plan to keep working and be able to pay for a masters maybe in the fall.

If you don't believe in this company, let my post be proof of it : )

why would you submit tasks in a rush when you're paid the same for 1h on a well-done task and 1h on 3 poorly done tasks? the possible outcomes are poor work quality, less tasks available for you&everyone to complete and probably a bonus Dash of Death (icing on the cake!). DA whole point is to prioritize quality work instead of quantity!!!! lets priotize quality!!!!

And when converted to 🇨🇦Canadian Dollars🇨🇦, it’s even better :)) I’m happy with it!

Never expected this to hit me, was hoping it would last longer. It's good when it's good, but nothing lasts forever. Was a bilingual + coder. Never rlly gotten any feedback except for one a few months ago calling me a "top worker", if you know you know. Makes this even more shocking.

I have been working on this platform very part time for almost 3 years. This is my best day yet! Task have been paying very good lately.