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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 84 of 1,639 roles, 79% remote.

Filtered roles

84 listings in 81 role families

Showing 61–81 of 81 role families. Language and region variants are grouped under one representative row.

SME Careers

SME CareersVerified

Posted 2mo ago

Catalan Language Expert for AI Content QA Remote

Remotefull-time
CatalanEnglish+16 more

Up to $26/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 2mo ago

Clinical Medicine Domain Expert

Bay Area, CAfull-time
Clinical MedicineInternal Medicine+12 more

$70–110/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 2mo ago

Business & Sales Operations Domain Expert

Bay Area, CAfull-time
Sales OperationsRevenue Operations+14 more

$60–100/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 2mo ago

Materials Science Domain Expert

Bay Area, CAfull-time
Materials ScienceMaterials Engineering+14 more

$70–110/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 2mo ago

Accounting & Audit Domain Expert

Bay Area, CAfull-time
AccountingAudit+14 more

$60–100/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 2mo ago

Insurance Domain Expert

Bay Area, CAfull-time
InsuranceActuarial Science+18 more

$60–100/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 2mo ago

Biochemistry & Life Sciences Domain Expert

Bay Area, CAfull-time
BiochemistryLife Sciences+16 more

$65–105/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 2mo ago

Pharmaceutical R&D Domain Expert

Bay Area, CAfull-time
Large Language ModelsGenerative AI+13 more

$75–115/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 2mo ago

Member of Technical Staff, Robotics Research

Remotefull-time
Robotics DataRobot Perception+2 more

$20–50/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 3mo ago

Senior Counsel Legal Domain Expert

Bay Area, CAfull-time
Legal ResearchLegal Writing+12 more

$85–120/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 3mo ago

Investment Banking & M&A - Finance Domain Expert

Bay Area, CAfull-time
Financial AnalysisInvestment Banking+18 more

$100–150/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 3mo ago

Partner & General Counsel - Legal Domain Expert

Bay Area, CAfull-time
Large Language ModelsLegal Research+9 more

$100–150/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 3mo ago

Private Equity & Venture Capital - Finance Domain Expert

Bay Area, CAfull-time
Financial ModelingCorporate Finance+18 more

$110–150/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 3mo ago

Legal Domain Expert — AI Training & Evaluation

Remotefull-time
Juris DoctorState Bar+14 more

$60–100/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 3mo ago

Finance Domain Expert — AI Training & Evaluation

Remotefull-time
FinanceCorporate Finance+18 more

$60–100/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 3mo ago

Strategic Project Lead Finance Focus

Remotefull-time
Leadership & Team ManagementData Operations+1 more

$80–90/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 3mo ago

Strategic Project Lead Health and Medicine

Remotefull-time
Leadership & Team ManagementData Operations+1 more

$80–90/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 3mo ago

Strategic Projects Lead Law and Legal

Remotefull-time
Leadership & Team ManagementData Operations+1 more

$80–90/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 3mo ago

Director of Robotics Research

Remotefull-time
Robotics SoftwareRobotics Data+1 more

$100–120/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 3mo ago

Penetration Tester

Remotefull-time
Ethical HackingVulnerability Assessment+1 more

$25–80/hr

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Pay distribution

  • Under $250
  • $25–$499
  • $50–$9958
  • $100–$14915
  • $150+2

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

Top skills

  • large language models
  • Python
  • Human Data
  • Data Operations
  • Leadership & Team Management
  • AWS
  • midjourney
  • benchmark design
  • node.js
  • React
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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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