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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 175 of 1,639 roles, 93% remote.

Filtered roles

175 listings in 161 role families

Showing 151–161 of 161 role families. Language and region variants are grouped under one representative row.

AfterQuery

AfterQueryVerified

Posted 2mo ago

Senior Domain Expert - AI Research Evaluation

Remote
Software EngineeringSystems Engineering+28 more

$135/hr

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AfterQuery

AfterQueryVerified

Posted 2mo ago

Data Engineering Expert

Remote
Data EngineeringEtl+12 more

$80/hr

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SME Careers

SME CareersVerified

Posted 2mo ago

Android Engineer Kotlin and Java Remote Contract

Remotecontract
AndroidKotlin+31 more

Up to $110/hr

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SME Careers

SME CareersVerified

Posted 2mo ago

Java Engineer for AI Review and Backend Systems

Remotecontract
JavaSpring Boot+25 more

Up to $55/hr

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SME Careers

SME CareersVerified

Posted 2mo ago

Angular Engineer for AI Frontend Review

Remotecontract
AngularAngular Cli+33 more

Up to $90/hr

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SME Careers

SME CareersVerified

Posted 2mo ago

JavaScript Engineer for AI Training Content and Evaluation

Remotecontract
JavaScriptTypeScript+27 more

Up to $60/hr

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AfterQuery

AfterQueryVerified

Posted 2mo ago

Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Remote Contract)

Remote
Next.jsReact+15 more

$140/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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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 3mo ago

Semiconductor Devices and Microelectronics Expert

Remotecontract
SemiconductorsEngineering

$66–130/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 3mo ago

Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed (US Gov)

Remotefull-time
PythonLLM Systems+2 more

$40–60/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 4mo ago

Solutions Architect

Remotecontract
MicroservicesAWS+2 more

$40–100/hr

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Pay distribution

  • Under $250
  • $25–$490
  • $50–$99123
  • $100–$14941
  • $150+11

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

Top skills

  • Python
  • typescript
  • JAVA
  • code review
  • react
  • technical writing
  • debugging
  • javascript
  • performance optimization
  • Rust
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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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