A man who rates Google search results to improve their quality said he gets paid $3 less per hour than his daughter who works at a fast food job.
Ed Stackhouse, a “rater” employed by Appen, a data company for machine learning development, told The Los Angeles Times he and his colleagues “make some of the lowest wages in the US.” Though Google works with several contractors, it doesn’t decide pay and benefits for raters as they are not considered company employees, per the Times.
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