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Top Classification Specialists on Upwork

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Freelancers

with $10K+ public earnings

Combined earned

$5.12M

band profiles counted at the floor

Median earned

$110K

median rate $35/hr

Combined jobs

2,092

across the top 23

#	Freelancer	Earned	Jobs	Rating	Rate	Score
1	MDMausam D.Lead Generation & B2B Sourcing \| Research \| AI Image AnnotationAi ResearchersIndia	$1.68M	702	4.9 / 5(321)	$7/hr	77
2	AIAriful I.Virtual Operations \| E-commerce Support \| AI Data Annotation ExpertAi ResearchersBangladesh	$693K	299	4.8 / 5(159)	$6/hr	75
3	AWAmol W.AI ML Developer \| Data Scientist \| LangGraph \| AI agents \| MCP\| ClaudeDeep Learning ExpertsIndia	$550K	118	5.0 / 5(55)	$45/hr	76
4	GBGunjan B.NLP, Multimodal, and Generative AI Expert \| Top 1 Percent on UpworkNlp Tokenization SpecialistsUnited States	$300K	134	4.0 / 5(53)	$170/hr	69
5	WFWaylon F.Machine Learning: NLP/Image RecognitionDeep Learning ExpertsUnited States	$294K	41	5.0 / 5(29)	$150/hr	74
6	GKGabor K.Applied AI & Data Scientist \| Production ML & Decision SupportData ScientistsSerbia	$272K	53	4.7 / 5(26)	$75/hr	72
7	JKJayanne Krizia L.QA \| Data & Image Annotation \| AI Training \| Data Analysis ExpertComputer ScientistPhilippines	$227K	83	4.7 / 5(44)	$12/hr	71
8	FBFaten B.Data Scientist \| Biosignal ML \| Time-Series \| Sensors \| WearablesTime Series Analysis SpecialistsGermany	$187K	11	5.0 / 5(6)	$200/hr	72
9	MNMuhammad Naeem M.Full-Stack AI Developer, Frontend Developer, Backend DeveloperNeural Network SpecialistsPakistan	$166K	58	4.7 / 5(30)	$40/hr	70
10	PDPradipta D.Machine Learning DeveloperMachine Learning ExpertsUnited States	$143K	81	4.8 / 5(42)	$50/hr	70
11	SKSamara K.Localization Quality Assurance CoordinatorData Extraction FreelancersBrazil	$125K	8	5.0 / 5(2)	$55/hr	71
12	FBFred B.Computer Vision Data Annotator \|Object Detection & Segmentation\| CVATComputer Vision EngineersKenya	$110K	112	4.9 / 5(50)	$6/hr	70
13	MWMuhammad W.Data Scientist (Ph.D.) \| AI & Machine Learning ArchitectData AnalystsSaudi Arabia	$94.4K	10	5.0 / 5(7)	$75/hr	70
14	AVAlekhya V.Machine Learning EngineerMachine Learning ExpertsIndia	$92.1K	4	5.0 / 5(4)	$35/hr	70
15	ABAnna B.Data Scientist \| AI Integration \| Kaggle GrandmasterScikit Learn FreelancersPeru	$38.4K	8	5.0 / 5(5)	$45/hr	67
16	NMNatnael M.AI Engineer \| AI Agents, RAG, LLMs & SaaS DevelopmentTensorflow DevelopersEthiopia	$32.9K	51	5.0 / 5(27)	$12/hr	66
17	NUNajeeb U.Senior AI Engineer \| AI SaaS, LLM & RAG Apps \| Voice Agents & n8nMachine Learning ExpertsPakistan	$21.7K	83	4.0 / 5(36)	$5/hr	60
18	ASAlvin S.Data Labelling & Annotation Specialist - Machine LearningMachine Learning ExpertsPhilippines	$20.8K	38	5.0 / 5(7)	$8/hr	65
19	MUMuhammad U.Generative-AI \| Multimodel \| Autonomous Agents \| Workflow AutomationAlgorithm DevelopersPakistan	$18.6K	67	4.7 / 5(27)	$35/hr	63
20	KWKelvin W.Data Annotation & AI Output Verification \| Research & Data QAEmail MarketersKenya	$15.6K	9	5.0 / 5(3)	$12/hr	64
21	JAJo Ann P.AI Data Annotation Specialist / QA \| Bounding Box, Segmentation, VideoClassification FreelancersVenezuela	$13.9K	26	5.0 / 5(11)	$10/hr	64
22	MJMelek J.Python Developer \| Data Analysis, Trading bots & Machine learningMachine Learning ExpertsTunisia	$13.5K	23	5.0 / 5(14)	$30/hr	64
23	ASAbdul Samad A.Social Network Analysis / Data Science & Analytics / R ProgrammingR ProgrammersPakistan	$12.0K	73	4.9 / 5(31)	$35/hr	63