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AI Jobs Paying $50+/hr or More

1,239 live roles advertised at $50+/hr or more, from 8 sources. Median advertised pay $85/hr.

Live roles

1,239

1,167 role families

Median advertised

$85/hr

1,239 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 830 of 1,239 roles, 98% remote.

Filtered roles

830 listings in 783 role families

Showing 1–30 of 783 role families. Language and region variants are grouped under one representative row.

Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 19h ago

Enterprise Sales Manager – AI Training Specialist

Remotepart-time
Enterprise SalesSales Management+10 more

$100–125/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 19h ago

Enterprise Account Executive - AI Sales Expert

Remotepart-time
Enterprise SalesStrategic Account Management+13 more

$85–105/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 1d ago

Investment Banking Expert

Remotehourly
Investment BankingFinancial Modeling+13 more

$110/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 1d ago

Law Expert

Remotehourly
Legal ResearchLegal Writing+19 more

$120/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 1d ago

HR Expert

Remotehourly
Human ResourcesTalent Acquisition+13 more

$95/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 1d ago

FP&A Expert

Remotehourly
Financial Planning And AnalysisBudgeting+14 more

$100/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 1d ago

Accounting Expert

Remotehourly
Financial ReportingTechnical Accounting+19 more

$95/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 1d ago

Ground Combat & Special Operations SME

Remotecontract
CombatSpecial Ops+1 more

$75–130/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 1d ago

Specialist

Remotecontract
Federal ContractingContract Negotiation+4 more

$60–80/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 1d ago

Equity & Credit Research Expert

Remotecontract
Financial AnalysisEquity Research+17 more

$90–120/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 1d ago

Investment Banking Associate

Remotecontract
Financial ModelingValuation Methodologies (dcf, Comparable Company Analysis, Precedent Transactions)+7 more

$90–120/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 1d ago

Legal Expert (Employment & Labor Law)

Remotecontract
Employment AttorneyLabor & Employment Counsel+1 more

$80–130/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 2d ago

Junior Machine Learning Engineer

Remotecontract
Machine Learning

$60–120/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 2d ago

AI Conversation Evaluator

Remotecontract
ChatgptAI Agents+2 more

$40–70/hr

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Mercor

MercorVerified

Posted 3d ago

Chip Design Expert (RTL Design & Verification)

Remotehourly
Rtl DesignVerilog+13 more

$100/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 3d ago

Paralegal

Remotecontract
Legal Research And VerificationDocument Review At Volume+5 more

$40–80/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

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

Cardiac Electrophysiologist

Remotecontract
Cardiac ElectrophysiologyEcg Interpretation+8 more

$80–285/hr

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AfterQuery

AfterQueryVerified

Posted 4d ago

Applied Statistician (Survey, Actuarial, Quality)

Remote
StatisticsPython+12 more

$50/hr

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AfterQuery

AfterQueryVerified

Posted 4d ago

Operations Research & Applied Mathematics Specialist

Remote
PythonOperations Research+13 more

$50/hr

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AfterQuery

AfterQueryVerified

Posted 4d ago

Clinical & Biomedical Measurement Scientist

Remote
PythonMatlab+16 more

$50/hr

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AfterQuery

AfterQueryVerified

Posted 4d ago

Ocean, Atmosphere & Earth Observation Scientist

Remote
PythonOceanography+12 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

Experimental Biologist & Physiologist (Lab)

Remote
PythonR+15 more

$50/hr

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AfterQuery

AfterQueryVerified

Posted 4d ago

Field Ecologist & Wildlife/Fisheries Biologist

Remote
PythonR+14 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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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 4d ago

Hematologist

Remotepart-time
Hematology ExpertiseClinical Documentation Review+3 more

$150–180/hr

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micro1

micro1Verified

Posted 4d ago

Cardiac Imaging Specialist

Remotecontract
Cardiac ImagingEchocardiography+11 more

$80–285/hr

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Pay distribution

  • Under $250
  • $25–$490
  • $50–$99518
  • $100–$149239
  • $150+73

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

Top skills

  • ai evaluation
  • python
  • llm evaluation
  • AI training
  • technical writing
  • data annotation
  • english
  • ai model evaluation
  • model evaluation
  • Attention to Detail
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How these numbers are calculated

NearSkill lists 1,239 live roles advertised at $50+/hr or more, grouped into 1,167 role families. Of the 1,239 USD hourly listings, the median advertised rate is $85/hr. The middle 50% sits between $70 and $110/hr, and the full posted range is $50 to $350/hr. These are advertised rates, not earnings.

The largest sources in this set are micro1 (406), Mercor (266), AfterQuery (215), Handshake AI (149). The skills that appear most often are ai evaluation, python, technical writing, llm evaluation, ai training. 97% of this set is remote.

Eligibility is mixed: 491 listings publish country eligibility explicitly, 0 imply it in the description, 407 do not state it. 341 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 $50+/hr or more?

1,239 active listings on November 15, 2026, grouped into 1,167 role families. Near-identical language or region variants are grouped so one employer cannot fill the list.

What is the median advertised pay?

$85/hr from 1,239 USD hourly listings. The middle 50% runs from $70 to $110/hr. It is advertised pay, not earnings, and missing pay is not estimated.

Which platforms have the most roles?

micro1 leads with 406 listings, followed by Mercor (266), AfterQuery (215), Handshake AI (149).

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. 407 listings in this set do not state it, and those are treated as unknown rather than worldwide.

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