Mercor: pay, who can join and open jobs
AI-focused talent marketplace connecting vetted professionals with project-based AI, data, and engineering roles. Mercor emphasizes skill matching and longer-term project work, positioning itself closer to a talent network than a traditional data annotation platform.
Who Mercor is hiring right now
Who can join Mercor: Official list of about 107 supported countries. Source
202 of 291 jobs don't name a country and are shown as “Worldwide (presumed)”. A job can be open in several countries, so shares can add up to more than 100%.
Hourly pay by platform: lowest, median and highest
Based on open jobs with hourly pay listed on aitrainer.jobs. The bar runs from the lowest to the highest rate; the dot is the median.
- Mindrift$35–$240
- Stellar AI$25–$200
- Rex.Zone$20–$150
- Micro1$15–$150
- RealTrainAI$48–$140
- Afterquery$20–$200
- Mercor$16–$250
- Ethos$35–$350
- Aura One$6–$500
- Invisible$5–$150
- Alignerr$10–$400
- TransPerfect$29–$58
- Appen$24–$100
- xAI$35–$35
- BrainTrust$5–$150
- SuperAnnotate$5–$33
- HumanSignal$6.5–$80
- LXT$20–$25
- Welocalize$5–$105
- RWS$6–$36
- Turing$15–$30
- Claru$5–$100
- TELUS$11–$14
Latest Mercor jobs
Audio Engineer (Speech / TTS Audio Specialist) – Brazilian Portuguese New
BioInformatics Experts
Atomistic Materials Modeling Expert
Inorganic Chemistry & Synthesis Expert
Primary Care Physician (MD) - Clinical Documentation & AI Evaluation
Cardiologist – Clinical Consultant (ATTR Cardiac Amyloidosis)
About Mercor
Mercor is an AI-driven hiring marketplace that places professionals on contracts with leading AI labs. You apply once, complete a short AI interview, and are then matched to open projects.
Listings span generalist evaluators as well as highly paid expert roles for doctors, lawyers, bankers, consultants, engineers and PhDs. Contracts are hourly and remote, and many run for several weeks at a time.
Tips before you apply
- Your AI interview is reused across applications — take it in a quiet place and give specific, concrete examples.
- Some roles require particular hardware or a location; check the requirements before applying.
Official site: www.mercor.com