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AI Jobs Paying $25+/hr or More

1,639 live roles advertised at $25+/hr or more, from 8 sources. Median advertised pay $75/hr.

Live roles

1,639

1,461 role families

Median advertised

$75/hr

1,639 USD hourly

Remote

97%

of this set

Platforms

8

with live roles

Filtered view. The clean page is canonical and indexed; filtered URLs are noindex. Showing 497 of 1,639 roles, 100% remote.

Filtered roles

497 listings in 457 role families

Showing 1–30 of 457 role families. Language and region variants are grouped under one representative row.

Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 19h ago

Enterprise Sales Manager – AI Training Specialist

Remotepart-time
Enterprise SalesSales Management+10 more

$100–125/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 19h ago

Enterprise Account Executive - AI Sales Expert

Remotepart-time
Enterprise SalesStrategic Account Management+13 more

$85–105/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 1d ago

Investment Banking Expert

Remotehourly
Investment BankingFinancial Modeling+13 more

$110/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 1d ago

Law Expert

Remotehourly
Legal ResearchLegal Writing+19 more

$120/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 1d ago

Ground Combat & Special Operations SME

Remotecontract
CombatSpecial Ops+1 more

$75–130/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 1d ago

Equity & Credit Research Expert

Remotecontract
Financial AnalysisEquity Research+17 more

$90–120/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 1d ago

Investment Banking Associate

Remotecontract
Financial ModelingValuation Methodologies (dcf, Comparable Company Analysis, Precedent Transactions)+7 more

$90–120/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 1d ago

Legal Expert (Employment & Labor Law)

Remotecontract
Employment AttorneyLabor & Employment Counsel+1 more

$80–130/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 2d ago

Go-to-Market and Revenue Operations Specialist

Remotecontract
Go To Market StrategyRevenue Operations+17 more

$50–90/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 2d ago

Junior Machine Learning Engineer

Remotecontract
Machine Learning

$60–120/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 3d ago

Software Engineer - Backend

Remotecontract
Python3Java+8 more

$50–100/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 3d ago

Software Engineer

Remotecontract
Python3Java+8 more

$50–100/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 3d ago

Sr. Full-Stack Software Engineer

Remotecontract
PythonReact+6 more

$50–100/hr

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AfterQuery

AfterQueryVerified

Posted 4d ago

Operations Research & Applied Mathematics Specialist

Remote
PythonOperations Research+13 more

$50/hr

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AfterQuery

AfterQueryVerified

Posted 4d ago

Clinical & Biomedical Measurement Scientist

Remote
PythonMatlab+16 more

$50/hr

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AfterQuery

AfterQueryVerified

Posted 4d ago

Ocean, Atmosphere & Earth Observation Scientist

Remote
PythonOceanography+12 more

$50/hr

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AfterQuery

AfterQueryVerified

Posted 4d ago

Field Ecologist & Wildlife/Fisheries Biologist

Remote
PythonR+14 more

$50/hr

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AfterQuery

AfterQueryVerified

Posted 4d ago

Mechanical & Aerospace Test and Reliability Engineer

Remote
PythonMatlab+17 more

$50/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 4d ago

Cardiac Imaging Specialist

Remotecontract
Cardiac ImagingEchocardiography+11 more

$80–285/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 4d ago

Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiologist

Remotecontract
Heart Failure ManagementCardiology+11 more

$80–285/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 4d ago

Software Engineer - Open Source Contributions

Remotecontract
Python3Java+8 more

$50–100/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 4d ago

Independent Consultant, Sales, Marketing & Business Strategy (Domain Expert)

Remotecontract
Sales StrategyMarketing Strategy+13 more

$40–120/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 4d ago

Independent Consultant/Entrepreneur, Finance, Data & Engineering (Domain Expert)

Remotecontract
Finance And Accounting ExpertiseData Analysis+18 more

$60–120/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 4d ago

Customer Support & Success Domain Expert

Remotefull-time
Customer SupportCustomer Success+22 more

$55–80/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 5d ago

Business Operations / Knowledge Work Specialist

Remotepart-time
ExcelGoogle Sheets+16 more

$50–80/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 5d ago

AI Trainer (SWE)

Remotecontract
Software EngineeringAI Training

$60–120/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 5d ago

Software Engineer (Foundational)

Remotepart-time
PythonJava+16 more

$80–120/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 5d ago

Creative & Media Expert

Remotehourly
Creative CloudFigma+18 more

$80–90/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 5d ago

Independent Professional & Solopreneur (Domain Expert)

Remotecontract
Domain ExpertiseClient Relationship Management+3 more

$40–120/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 5d ago

Embedded Systems / Kernel Engineer

Remotepart-time
CC+++15 more

$100–150/hr

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Pay distribution

  • Under $250
  • $25–$490
  • $50–$99299
  • $100–$149160
  • $150+38

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

Top skills

  • Python
  • technical writing
  • ai evaluation
  • llm evaluation
  • data annotation
  • AI training
  • model evaluation
  • code review
  • english
  • Typescript
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How these numbers are calculated

NearSkill lists 1,639 live roles advertised at $25+/hr or more, grouped into 1,461 role families. Of the 1,639 USD hourly listings, the median advertised rate is $75/hr. The middle 50% sits between $50 and $100/hr, and the full posted range is $25 to $350/hr. These are advertised rates, not earnings.

The largest sources in this set are micro1 (565), Mercor (332), AfterQuery (268), SME Careers (215). The skills that appear most often are english, ai evaluation, python, llm evaluation, ai training. 97% of this set is remote.

Eligibility is mixed: 643 listings publish country eligibility explicitly, 0 imply it in the description, 542 do not state it. 454 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 $25+/hr or more?

1,639 active listings on November 15, 2026, grouped into 1,461 role families. Near-identical language or region variants are grouped so one employer cannot fill the list.

What is the median advertised pay?

$75/hr from 1,639 USD hourly listings. The middle 50% runs from $50 to $100/hr. It is advertised pay, not earnings, and missing pay is not estimated.

Which platforms have the most roles?

micro1 leads with 565 listings, followed by Mercor (332), AfterQuery (268), SME Careers (215).

Are these roles remote?

97% 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. 542 listings in this set do not state it, and those are treated as unknown rather than worldwide.

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