Pay report
What remote work actually pays
Most job boards hide the rate until you apply. Here it is on the card, and this page adds every one of them up. These are the published rates on the roles open right now — counted, not estimated, and recounted every time the catalogue refreshes.
Median hourly rate
$100
Across 322 hourly roles
Top rate on the board
$400
Highest published hourly rate
Listings that state pay
98%
344 of 350 open roles
Typical range floor
$50
Median of the published range floors
How many roles clear each rate
Every hourly listing counted once at each threshold it reaches, so the bars nest rather than divide. The top of the board is $400 an hour.
- $50+278 roles
- $100+162 roles
- $150+59 roles
- $200+25 roles
- $300+18 roles
What each kind of remote work pays
The bar spans the median published range — its floor to its ceiling. The lighter track behind it is the full spread of rates in that category, lowest to highest. Categories with fewer than five priced listings are left out rather than shown on a sample too thin to mean anything.
- Legal
$80–$170
median range · n=43
Full spread $25 to $400 an hour
- Engineering
$63–$122
median range · n=21
Full spread $50 to $185 an hour
- AI Training
$60–$120
median range · n=27
Full spread $15 to $285 an hour
- Software & IT
$50–$120
median range · n=21
Full spread $20 to $170 an hour
- Design
$50–$105
median range · n=20
Full spread $20 to $185 an hour
- Business & Operations
$60–$100
median range · n=29
Full spread $20 to $170 an hour
- Finance
$60–$100
median range · n=17
Full spread $20 to $150 an hour
- Science & Research
$53–$100
median range · n=20
Full spread $30 to $170 an hour
- Healthcare
$50–$70
median range · n=21
Full spread $30 to $285 an hour
- Language & Translation
$30–$65
median range · n=25
Full spread $15 to $150 an hour
- Skilled Trades
$20–$60
median range · n=5
Full spread $20 to $60 an hour
- General
$30–$60
median range · n=47
Full spread $14 to $170 an hour
- Media & Production
$21–$45
median range · n=17
Full spread $6 to $105 an hour
Scale runs from $0 to $400 an hour across every row, so the bars are comparable between categories.
The skills the best-paid listings ask for
Ranked by what the roles requiring them pay, not by how often they come up — the most common skill on any job board is the one worth the least. The range is the median floor to the median ceiling of the listings asking for it, and each needs five priced listings to appear.
- Legal research and analysis$140–$400/hr · n=8
- Legal Writing$140–$400/hr · n=6
- Risk assessment$140–$400/hr · n=5
- Ai evaluation$80–$285/hr · n=5
- Regulatory Compliance$115–$255/hr · n=10
- Legal Research$140–$250/hr · n=7
- Engineering Judgment Under Constraints$85–$185/hr · n=5
- Knowing When an Answer Is Wrong$85–$185/hr · n=5
The highest-paying roles open right now
The figures above come from listings like these. Every one is live, and the rate is the employer's own published ceiling.
The roles quoted by the year
A minority of listings are salaried rather than hourly. They are counted separately: turning a contract rate into an annual figure would assume a full year of full-time work nobody here is promised.
- Salaried roles open
- 22
- Median starting salary
- $350,000
- Highest quoted
- $2,000,000
How these figures were counted
- Every figure is read from the live catalogue when the page is built, so it is never staler than the last refresh. Nothing here is typed in by hand.
- Medians, not averages. One unusually large contract moves an average somewhere no reader will ever be offered; the median stays where the listings actually are.
- A category or skill needs five priced listings before it gets a median. The sample size is printed beside every one as n=, so you can judge it yourself.
- Hourly and salaried roles are never combined, and no hourly rate is converted into a yearly one.
- This measures this board — 350 remote roles from a single hiring platform. It is an accurate count of what is listed here, not a survey of the whole remote labour market.
Catalogue last refreshed November 14, 2026. Figures recalculate on every refresh.
Browse the roles behind these numbers in every category, or read the questions and answers about how remote pay and applying work here.