Karya

Data vendor, HQ India. Ethical data nonprofit-style company paying rural Indian workers for language data; now lists egocentric work and life datasets for embodied AI.

Data it collects

Workers in

India

Scale

• 200,000+ workers onboarded, $4.42M in wages distributed, 28 Indian states, 7 countries (2026-07)

Pay

• Karya reports $4.42M total wages paid and a 25.8% average increase in worker annual income (FY2025-26); no hourly rate for egocentric work disclosed.

Sources

• Egocentric work and life datasets for physical-world and embodied AI systems.karya.in ↗ Company claim 2026-10-05
• 25.8% average increase in worker annual income enabled by Karyakarya.in ↗ Company claim 2026-07
• 72% workers had no individual income of their own prior to Karyakarya.in ↗ Company claim 2026-07

Every row links to its source, and hovering a link shows the quote it rests on. Research compiled 2026-10-05. Method