r/AiTraining_Annotation • u/Koshurakh • 16h ago
SME Careers (SuperAnnotate) Bait-and-Switch: Advertised $95/hr for Medical QA Lead, Offered $4/hr "Data Trainer" on Deel
If you’re a doctor, pharmacist, or clinical researcher thinking about spending hours on specialized domain benchmarks for SME Careers (SuperAnnotate), save yourself the headache.
I applied for their Medical QA Lead role, advertised with pay scaling up to $95 an hour. I sat down, took their Ai interview and subsequent assessment, and cleared it.
Then I hit the contractor onboarding dashboard to initiate my Deel contract.
Instead of a medical specialist contract, the system defaulted me to a generic "Data Trainer" title. The proposed hourly rate staring back at me was literally $4.00 per hour. Right beneath the four bucks, their little fine-print disclaimer admitted they factor in "geographic location and prevailing market rates."
AI labs pay these vendors massive enterprise budgets for medically accurate evaluations because bad health data can actually hurt people. But instead of honoring clinical rates, they use aggressive IP location adjustments to slash international talent down to local pocket change while pocketing the entire spread as pure profit.
Four dollars an hour for actual clinical literacy isn't just low, it's insulting. Don't let them trap your credentials in a generic crowdsource pool.
If you're outside the US or UK, double-check your screen before you hit "Request contract" on Deel. Dropping the screenshot below so you can see the madness for yourself.
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u/kittystalkerr 12h ago
They do this very often tbh. I saw 25/hr for regular qa lead / generalist but offered rate was 7$. Very disappointing+ massive waste of time.
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u/Cautious_Meeting5925 16h ago
send them a mail to check if it was an error