Remote Skilled Trades Salaries: What the Work Pays Per Hour

Across 6 live remote skilled trades listings that publish an hourly range, the median runs from $20 to $60 an hour. The middle half of listings sits between $20 and $60, the lowest published rate is $20 and the highest is $122.

Hourly pay at a glance

1 of 6 hourly skilled trades listings (17%) reach $100 an hour at the top of their range, while 6 reach $50.

• $50/hr or more6 listings · 100%
• $100/hr or more1 listing · 17%
• $150/hr or more0 listings · 0%
• $200/hr or more0 listings · 0%
• $300/hr or more0 listings · 0%

The best-paid open skilled trades roles today, by the top of their published range. Each links to the listing, so the figure can be checked against the employer’s own posting.

1. 1.Vectorworks Architecture BIM Specialist$63–$122/hr
2. 2.Directional Surveyor / Drilling Engineer (Magnetic Single-Shot and Multi-Shot Film)$20–$60/hr
3. 3.Mobility Equipment / Automotive Electrical Technician (Wheelchair Vans)$20–$60/hr
4. 4.Senior Cargo Condition and Securing Surveyor$20–$60/hr
5. 5.Senior Marine Cargo and Draft Surveyor$20–$60/hr
6. 6.Senior Machinist / Construction & Field Ops Lead$40–$60/hr

Of the 6 open skilled trades listings, 4 are contract roles, 0 part-time and 0 full-time, with 2 not saying. Most are contract work, usually paid by the hour for the hours you actually work.

Skilled Trades ranks 12th of 14 fields by median hourly pay on RemoteJobsOne. Its median ceiling of $60 an hour is 33% below the $90 median across all remote listings.

Pay reports for other fields

• Legal · $100–$170
• Engineering · $63–$121
• Finance · $60–$110
• Design · $50–$105
• Data · $60–$100
• Software & IT · $50–$100
• Science & Research · $45–$90
• Business & Operations · $43–$80
• Healthcare · $50–$70
• Language & Translation · $30–$65
• AI Training · $31–$60
• General · $25–$60
• Media & Production · $21–$40

Every figure on this page is counted from the remote skilled trades listings live on RemoteJobsOne when the page was last refreshed. Hourly figures use only listings that publish both the floor and the ceiling of their range, so a half-stated range cannot pull one median without the other. Medians are used rather than averages, because a single unusually high rate would move an average somewhere no reader will be offered. Figures from fewer than five listings are not reported. The rates are the employers’ own published figures; nothing is estimated.

See the site-wide remote salary report for every field side by side, or how remote job pay works for what a published range does and does not promise.