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AI Jobs Paying $150+/hr or More

117 live roles advertised at $150+/hr or more, from 6 sources. Median advertised pay $180/hr.

Live roles

117

117 role families

Median advertised

$180/hr

117 USD hourly

Remote

100%

of this set

Platforms

6

with live roles

Filtered view. The clean page is canonical and indexed; filtered URLs are noindex. Showing 38 of 117 roles, 100% remote.

Filtered roles

38 listings in 38 role families

Showing 31–38 of 38 role families. Language and region variants are grouped under one representative row.

AfterQuery

AfterQueryVerified

Posted 1mo ago

Machine Learning Bioinformatics Expert

Remote
Machine LearningBioinformatics+20 more

$175/hr

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AfterQuery

AfterQueryVerified

Posted 2mo ago

Computational Materials Science ML Expert

Remote
Machine LearningComputational Materials Science+22 more

$175/hr

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AfterQuery

AfterQueryVerified

Posted 2mo ago

ML Research Expert - Benchmark Authoring

Remote
Machine LearningDeep Learning+18 more

$150/hr

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AfterQuery

AfterQueryVerified

Posted 2mo ago

Quantitative Analyst Expert

Remote
PythonR+13 more

$175/hr

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AfterQuery

AfterQueryVerified

Posted 2mo ago

Finance Expert - Remote AI Response Review

Remote
FinanceAccounting+17 more

$175/hr

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AfterQuery

AfterQueryVerified

Posted 2mo ago

Medical MD Expert - Remote Contract Role

Remote
MdDo+11 more

$160/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 2mo ago

Legacy Codebase Migration Expert

Remotepart-time
JavaPython+18 more

$200/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 4mo ago

Physician Talent Network

Remotepart-time

$110–250/hr

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Pay distribution

  • Under $250
  • $25–$490
  • $50–$990
  • $100–$1490
  • $150+38

USD hourly midpoints, anomalies excluded. Advertised pay, not earnings.

Top skills

  • attention to detail
  • python
  • ai model evaluation
  • technical writing
  • md
  • do
  • ai evaluation
  • critical thinking
  • legal research and analysis
  • us medical license
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How these numbers are calculated

NearSkill lists 117 live roles advertised at $150+/hr or more, grouped into 117 role families. Of the 117 USD hourly listings, the median advertised rate is $180/hr. The middle 50% sits between $150 and $237.50/hr, and the full posted range is $150 to $350/hr. These are advertised rates, not earnings.

The largest sources in this set are micro1 (40), Mercor (36), AfterQuery (20), Handshake AI (10). The skills that appear most often are attention to detail, ai model evaluation, patient safety, clinical reasoning, data annotation. 100% of this set is remote.

Eligibility is mixed: 31 listings publish country eligibility explicitly, 0 imply it in the description, 51 do not state it. 35 listings are marked worldwide. Missing eligibility is treated as unknown, not as worldwide.

Figures were computed from the live job feed on November 15, 2026. Counts and pay move as listings are added or closed. NearSkill does not estimate missing pay, and non-USD rates are excluded from the USD medians rather than converted.

Questions, answered

How many roles are live paying $150+/hr or more?

117 active listings on November 15, 2026, grouped into 117 role families. Near-identical language or region variants are grouped so one employer cannot fill the list.

What is the median advertised pay?

$180/hr from 117 USD hourly listings. The middle 50% runs from $150 to $237.50/hr. It is advertised pay, not earnings, and missing pay is not estimated.

Which platforms have the most roles?

micro1 leads with 40 listings, followed by Mercor (36), AfterQuery (20), Handshake AI (10).

Are these roles remote?

100% of this set is remote. Remote describes the work arrangement; it does not guarantee that the employer accepts applicants from every country.

How is country eligibility determined?

Eligibility comes from the listing's country field when it is present, or from explicit eligibility language in the description. 51 listings in this set do not state it, and those are treated as unknown rather than worldwide.

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