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Introduction

Your profit-sharing percentage is the specific split, defined in your individual signed agreement, that determines how earnings from your account are divided. This number is set before you sign anything — it's presented and explained during onboarding, and you review the exact figure as part of the agreement before committing.

Who This Applies To

Account Owners specifically — Annotator pay works differently, based on task performance rather than a percentage split.

Why It Matters

This is the single number that determines your actual weekly earnings, which is exactly why it's worth reading more than once before signing, and why it's individual to your agreement rather than a marketing figure.

What's Involved

  • The specific percentage stated in your signed agreement
  • How that percentage is applied to your account's tracked earnings
  • Where to raise questions if a payout doesn't seem to match

Step-by-Step Process

Your percentage is explained during the onboarding explanation step, presented again in your draft agreement, and finalized only once you sign. See How to Become a Starkworth Account Owner for how this fits into the full sequence.

What You Need to Get Started

  • Your own signed agreement as the authoritative reference
  • Specific questions prepared for the explanation step if anything is unclear

Typical Timeline

Set once, at signing, and applied consistently to every weekly payout for as long as the agreement remains active — it doesn't change without a documented update to the agreement itself.

What Determines Your Terms

Starkworth doesn't use fixed public pricing tiers — every Account Owner and Annotator works under an individually signed agreement. The figures below explain what shapes those terms, not a price list.

Because it's individual to each agreement rather than a fixed company-wide rate, the only reliable source for your actual percentage is your own signed document, not general marketing copy or what another Account Owner has mentioned to you.

Ongoing Support

If a payout ever doesn't seem to match your agreement, that's worth raising directly through Support so it can be checked against your signed terms.

Example Scenario

Illustrative example — not a real customer case study

Two Account Owners with different agreements compare notes and notice their percentages differ. This isn't unusual — each agreement is individually set during onboarding, so a direct comparison between two different Account Owners' percentages isn't meaningful without knowing the full context of each agreement.

Frequently Asked Questions

Raise any concerns during the explanation step, before you've signed — that's the point in the process where terms are discussed.

Each agreement is set individually during onboarding, so differences between Account Owners aren't unusual and don't indicate an error.

Only through a documented update agreed by both parties — it doesn't change unilaterally.

Apply your agreement's percentage to your account's tracked earnings for the week — if this doesn't match an actual payout, raise it with Support.

In your individual signed profit-sharing agreement — refer to that document directly rather than any general guide.

Contact Support now to get clarity — it's never too late to confirm your own agreement's terms.

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