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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 172 of 1,639 roles, 100% remote.

Filtered roles

172 listings in 158 role families

Showing 1–30 of 158 role families. Language and region variants are grouped under one representative row.

Braintrust

BraintrustVerified

Posted 2d ago

Web Designer

Remotecontract
Web DesignVisual Design+18 more

$90–130/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 2d ago

Junior Machine Learning Engineer

Remotecontract
Machine Learning

$60–120/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 2d ago

Enterprise Sales Expert (AE / Sales Leader)

Remotehourly
Enterprise SalesB2b Saas+12 more

$50–70/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 3d ago

Game Developer (Godot Expert)

Remotecontract
GodotGame Development

$70–130/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 3d ago

Electronics Engineer (DesignSpark PCB Specialist)

Remotecontract
Designspark PcbPcb Design+4 more

$63–122/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

Civil, Geotechnical & Structural Field Engineer

Remote
PythonCivil Engineering+13 more

$50/hr

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AfterQuery

AfterQueryVerified

Posted 4d ago

Process & Chemical Plant Engineer

Remote
PythonChemical Engineering+10 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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Braintrust

BraintrustVerified

Posted 4d ago

Mobile Development Intern, - -Hire, Iowa

Remotecontract
FlutterPython+22 more

$22–30/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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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 5d ago

Software Engineer (Foundational)

Remotepart-time
PythonJava+16 more

$80–120/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 5d ago

AI Trainer (Engineering Sciences)

Remotecontract
HardwareAerodynamics+4 more

$60–120/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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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 5d ago

Mechanical / CAD Engineer

Remotepart-time
SolidworksCatia+12 more

$60–100/hr

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SME Careers

SME CareersVerified

Posted 5d ago

Design & Creative Professionals

Remotecontract
IndesignIllustrator+20 more

Up to $150/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 5d ago

Scientific / ML Engineer

Remotepart-time
Machine LearningDeep Learning+16 more

$90–140/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 6d ago

DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer

Remotepart-time
KubernetesDocker+17 more

$80–120/hr

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SME Careers

SME CareersVerified

Posted 6d ago

CAD & Engineering Professionals

Remotecontract
3d ModelingAutocad+26 more

Up to $150/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 6d ago

Coding Expert

Remotecontract
PythonJavaScript+1 more

$20–45/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 6d ago

Open Source Contributor

Remotecontract
Python3Java+4 more

$60–120/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 9d ago

Civil Engineering Writer

Remotehourly
Civil EngineeringStructural Analysis+20 more

$80/hr

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Braintrust

BraintrustVerified

Posted 9d ago

Software Engineer (Scala + ML Systems) - US Only

Remotecontract
ScalaKubernetes+22 more

$80–84/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 9d ago

Mechanical Engineering Writer

Remotehourly
Mechanical EngineeringSolidworks+22 more

$80/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 9d ago

Strategic Project Lead, AI Coding & Evaluations

Remotefull-time
Technical Project & Pipeline ManagementSoftware Engineering & Technical Fluency+2 more

$80–90/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 10d ago

Frontend / UI Engineer

Remotecontract
ReactTypeScript+6 more

$70–100/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 10d ago

Electrical Engineering & Simulation Expert — Hephaestus

Remotehourly
Electrical EngineeringCircuit Design+22 more

$70–90/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 10d ago

Mechanical Engineering & Simulation Expert — Hephaestus

Remotehourly
Mechanical EngineeringCad+23 more

$70–90/hr

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Pay distribution

  • Under $250
  • $25–$4910
  • $50–$99111
  • $100–$14940
  • $150+11

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

Top skills

  • Python
  • Typescript
  • JAVA
  • code review
  • technical writing
  • React
  • performance optimization
  • javascript
  • Rust
  • debugging
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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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