How much does Mercor pay?

Mercor pays $55–$150/hr typically, a median of $75/hr, measured from the 195 open roles on its board that state a rate on 18 Oct 2026. Its advertised rates run from $10/hr to $450/hr.

The highest-paying open Mercor role on 18 Oct 2026 is Oncologist, at $400/hr (its posting: "$350-$450/hr"). Every open role by pay.

Hourly contractors are paid every Wednesday for the previous week of approved hours, tracked in the Insightful app, through Stripe Connect, or Wise where Stripe is not available; the first Stripe payout is held 7 days. Mercor withholds no tax, and US contractors who earn over $600 get a 1099-NEC.

Mercor does not take on contractors located in Andorra, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Barbados, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Bahamas, Bhutan, Belarus, Belize, DR Congo, Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Cameroon, China, Cuba, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Dominica, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Micronesia, Grenada, Georgia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Haiti, Iraq, Iran, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Kiribati, Comoros, St. Kitts and Nevis, North Korea, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Moldova, Montenegro, Marshall Islands, Mali, Myanmar, Mauritania, Maldives, Malawi, Niger, Nicaragua, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan, Palestine, Palau, Russia, Solomon Islands, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Suriname, South Sudan, São Tomé and Príncipe, Syria, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Tonga, Tuvalu, Ukraine, Uganda, Vatican City, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Venezuela, Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Mercor's own page (read 17 Oct 2026) lists the 107 countries it works with.

Compared within the same kinds of work (6 with enough rates on both sides), the advertised median at Mercor runs 33.3% above other platforms' and is higher in 4 of the 6; the widest gap is in Transcription, Audio & Speech ($75/hr against $30/hr). In Domain Experts, its largest kind of work with enough rates, Mercor's roles pay $80–$200/hr typically (median $90/hr), against $50–$150/hr (median $70/hr) across every platform's 1,118 Domain Experts roles.

Counted at the end of each week, over the roles open then, the median advertised rate on Mercor's roles was $85/hr in the week of 3 to 9 Aug (256 distinct rates) and $80/hr in the week of 5 to 11 Oct (165 distinct rates). The roles open now, on 18 Oct 2026, have a median of $75/hr, the figure above. A change can come from roles listed or removed at other rates as well as from a rate changed.