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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 603 of 1,639 roles, 97% remote.

Filtered roles

603 listings in 537 role families

Showing 121–150 of 537 role families. Language and region variants are grouped under one representative row.

micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 16d ago

Consumer Product Safety Attorney

Remotecontract
Product Safety LawRegulatory Compliance+14 more

$140–400/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 16d ago

Biology & Life Sciences Domain Expert

Remotehourly
BiochemistryMolecular Biology+16 more

$90–140/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 16d ago

Audio Editing & Production Expert (Audacity)

Remotecontract
AudacityAudio Editing+4 more

$21–70/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 17d ago

Intelligence Agency Officer

Remotecontract
Intelligence AnalysisThreat Analysis+13 more

$80–170/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 17d ago

Ophthalmologist

Remotehourly
OphthalmologyAbo Board Certification+13 more

$175/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 17d ago

Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Node.js, TypeScript, Rust)

Remotefull-time
Node.jsTypeScript+19 more

$50–80/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 17d ago

AI Photo Rater

Remotecontract
Image EvaluationAttention To Visual Detail+2 more

$21–45/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 17d ago

Senior Industrial Trades and Maintenance Expert

Remotecontract
Millwright And Mechanical Installation Drawing InterpretationField Diagram And Inspection Sketch Interpretation+4 more

$20–60/hr

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Handshake AI

Handshake AIVerified

Posted 17d ago

Intensivist

RemotePart-Time
Critical Care MedicineMechanical Ventilation+16 more

$180/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 17d ago

Investment Banking & M&A Expert

Remotecontract
CpaAI Agents

$60–120/hr

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Braintrust

BraintrustVerified

Posted 17d ago

AI Engineering Consultant

Remotecontract
AI AgentsAutomation Frameworks+13 more

$50–60/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 17d ago

AI Jailbreak & Prompt-Injection Security Expert

Remotecontract
Ethical JailbreaksLLM Red Teaming+2 more

$50–90/hr

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Braintrust

BraintrustVerified

Posted 18d ago

Sr. Full-Stack Engineer, AI-Native (LATAM / Europe)

Remotecontract
TypeScriptReact+30 more

$85–90/hr

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Handshake AI

Handshake AIVerified

Posted 18d ago

Neurologist

RemotePart-Time
NeurologyStroke And Vascular Neurology+24 more

$180/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 18d ago

Military Operations & IHL Expert

Remotecontract
War FightingWeapons Targeting+2 more

$50–90/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 18d ago

Marketing Specialist (Microsoft Office User)

Remotecontract
Office SuiteTeams+3 more

$25–40/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 18d ago

Management Consulting Expert

Remotecontract
AI Agents

$60–120/hr

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Braintrust

BraintrustVerified

Posted 18d ago

Staff Research Engineer - Frontier AI and Reinforcement Learning - International

Remotecontract
PythonMachine Learning+10 more

$26/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 18d ago

Lawyers & Legal Experts — Global Talent Pool

Remotehourly
Legal ReviewLegal Analysis+22 more

$100–140/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 18d ago

Legal Specialist (Microsoft Office User)

Remotecontract
Office SuiteTeams+3 more

$25–40/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 19d ago

Japanese Linguistic Experts

Remotehourly
JapaneseLinguistics+14 more

$50/hr

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Braintrust

BraintrustVerified

Posted 19d ago

STEM PhD Expert for AI Reasoning & Evaluation

Remotecontract
Machine LearningArtificial Intelligence+10 more

$50–150/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 19d ago

Telugu Linguistic Experts

Remotehourly
TeluguTranslation+12 more

$30/hr

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Braintrust

BraintrustVerified

Posted 19d ago

Data Scientist, Product Analytics

New York, NY, USAcontract
SQLLooker+18 more

$80–86/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 19d ago

Financial Due Diligence & Transaction Accounting

Remotecontract
CpaAI Agents

$60–120/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 19d ago

Corporate Finance & Financial Modeling Expert

Remotecontract
CpaAI Agents

$60–120/hr

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Braintrust

BraintrustVerified

Posted 19d ago

AI Automation Engineer (Agentic AI)

Remotecontract
PythonTypeScript+20 more

$90–100/hr

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Braintrust

BraintrustVerified

Posted 21d ago

Principal Coding Annotator / LLM Evaluation Engineer

Belgium; Denmark; France +9 morecontract
PythonData Annotation+14 more

$75–90/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 21d ago

Business Operations Expert

Remotecontract
Turning Real Operations Work Into A Defined TaskObjective Grading Criteria+3 more

$45–90/hr

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Braintrust

BraintrustVerified

Posted 21d ago

GCP Platform Engineer with DevOps experience

Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA; Irving, TX, USA; Jersey City, NJ, USA +1 morecontract
GCPTerraform+21 more

$85/hr

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Pay distribution

  • Under $250
  • $25–$4991
  • $50–$99312
  • $100–$149162
  • $150+38

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

Top skills

  • Python
  • technical writing
  • ai evaluation
  • llm evaluation
  • english
  • large language models
  • data annotation
  • AI training
  • translation
  • model evaluation
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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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