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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 1,598 of 1,639 roles, 100% remote.

Filtered roles

1,598 listings in 1,424 role families

Showing 421–450 of 1,424 role families. Language and region variants are grouped under one representative row.

Handshake AI

Handshake AIVerified

Posted 22d ago

Renewable Energy Engineer (Remote, Part-Time)

RemotePart-Time
Renewable Energy EngineeringMicrogrid Design+10 more

$80/hr

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Handshake AI

Handshake AIVerified

Posted 22d ago

AEC BIM Expert - Remote AI Research Program

RemotePart-Time
BimVectorworks+8 more

$125/hr

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Handshake AI

Handshake AIVerified

Posted 22d ago

Political Science Expert

RemotePart-Time
Political ScienceAmerican Politics+21 more

$75/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 22d ago

Revenue Operations Specialist (SaaS)

Remotecontract
OperationsConflicting Policy Arbitration+3 more

$50–100/hr

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Handshake AI

Handshake AIVerified

Posted 22d ago

Upstream Land Administrator - Remote Fellowship

RemotePart-Time
Land AdministrationMineral Title+15 more

Up to $80/hr

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Handshake AI

Handshake AIVerified

Posted 22d ago

Tamil AI Evaluation Specialist (Singapore/Malaysia)

RemotePart-Time
TamilEnglish+12 more

$30/hr

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Handshake AI

Handshake AIVerified

Posted 22d ago

Computational Physics Expert

RemotePart-Time
Computational PhysicsTheoretical Physics+18 more

$75/hr

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Handshake AI

Handshake AIVerified

Posted 22d ago

Energy Billing Analyst - AI Training Project

RemotePart-Time
Utility MeteringCustomer Operations+11 more

Up to $85/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 22d ago

Legal & Compliance Expert

Remotecontract
Turning Real Legal Work Into A Defined TaskContract And Document Review+3 more

$45–90/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 22d ago

Finance & Accounting Expert

Remotecontract
Turning Real Finance Work Into A Defined TaskObjective Grading Criteria+4 more

$40–90/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 23d ago

Senior Cargo and Parcel Claims Examiner

Remotecontract
Air Cargo ClaimsCustody Determination+4 more

$20–60/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 23d ago

Junior Lawyer

Remotecontract
Legal Document ReviewBluebook Citation+8 more

$50–80/hr

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Handshake AI

Handshake AIVerified

Posted 23d ago

Mechanical Engineering Expert

RemotePart-Time
Mechanical EngineeringParametric Solid Modeling+27 more

$120/hr

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Handshake AI

Handshake AIVerified

Posted 23d ago

Mechanical Design Engineer - AI Training Project (India)

RemotePart-Time
Parametric CadSolidworks+16 more

$47/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 23d ago

Intelligence Analyst

Remotecontract
Analytic RigorSource Handling+2 more

$80–170/hr

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Handshake AI

Handshake AIVerified

Posted 23d ago

Revenue, Demand and Supply Planning Expert

RemotePart-Time
Demand ForecastingIn Season Reforecasting+13 more

$80/hr

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Braintrust

BraintrustVerified

Posted 23d ago

Senior Software Engineer - Python / TypeScript

Remotecontract
PythonTypeScript+8 more

$100/hr

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Braintrust

BraintrustVerified

Posted 23d ago

Staff Research Engineer - Frontier AI and Reinforcement Learning - US and Canada

Remotecontract
PythonMachine Learning+12 more

$57/hr

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Handshake AI

Handshake AIVerified

Posted 23d ago

Retail Operations Manager - Remote AI Evaluation

RemotePart-Time
Retail Operations ManagementStore Performance Reporting+11 more

$80/hr

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Handshake AI

Handshake AIVerified

Posted 23d ago

Chip Design Engineer - Semiconductor (Canada)

RemotePart-Time
Cadence VirtuosoCadence Innovus+17 more

$96/hr

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Handshake AI

Handshake AIVerified

Posted 23d ago

Power Plant Emissions & Performance Analyst

RemotePart-Time
Thermal Power Plant PerformanceHeat Rate Efficiency Analysis+12 more

$80/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 23d ago

Chemistry Specialist, Synthetic & Analytical Chemistry

Remotepart-time
ChemistrySynthetic Chemistry+23 more

$70–100/hr

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Handshake AI

Handshake AIVerified

Posted 23d ago

Customer Ops Analyst - Remote Energy AI Fellowship

RemotePart-Time
Utility MeteringCustomer Operations+13 more

Up to $85/hr

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Handshake AI

Handshake AIVerified

Posted 23d ago

Security Engineer - AI Training Fellowship

RemotePart-Time
Security EngineeringOffensive Security+17 more

Up to $80/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 23d ago

Software Engineer – Retail Investing Platforms (Paid Expert Interview)

Remotehourly
Software EngineeringBackend Engineering+17 more

$100–120/hr

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Handshake AI

Handshake AIVerified

Posted 23d ago

Drilling Superintendent - Remote AI Project

RemotePart-Time
Drilling EngineeringCompletions Engineering+15 more

Up to $85/hr

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Handshake AI

Handshake AIVerified

Posted 23d ago

Generation Asset Analyst (Remote Contract)

RemotePart-Time
Aveva PiWincc+11 more

Up to $85/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 23d ago

AI Agent Tester - Real-World Tasks

Remotecontract
ChatgptMuse+4 more

$25–45/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 23d ago

Cyber Threat Intelligence SME

Remotecontract
Nation State Threat JudgmentOffensive/defensive Line+2 more

$70–110/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 23d ago

MLOps Engineer, LLM Performance (Kernels, Profiling, Serving)

Remotehourly
PallasTriton+27 more

$90–120/hr

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Pay distribution

  • Under $250
  • $25–$49397
  • $50–$99766
  • $100–$149318
  • $150+117

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

Top skills

  • english
  • ai evaluation
  • llm evaluation
  • python
  • AI training
  • data annotation
  • Attention to detail
  • technical writing
  • translation
  • documentation
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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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