Mercor pay over time
Mercor's median advertised rate is $78/hr as of 2026-08-23 (139 distinct rates), down 6% from $83/hr on 2026-07-24 (97 distinct rates, archive-observed).
- $78/hr
- median · 2026-08-23
- $44–$110
- typical range
- 139
- distinct rates behind it
- 17
- observations since 2026-07-24
Every observation
| Day | Source | Median | Typical | Top | Distinct rates | Open roles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-23 | snapshot | $78/hr | $44–$110 | $250/hr | 139 | 433 |
| 2026-08-22 | snapshot | $80/hr | $44–$110 | $250/hr | 138 | 426 |
| 2026-08-21 ▲ | snapshot | $78/hr | $44–$110 | $250/hr | 137 | 388 |
| 2026-08-20 | snapshot | $78/hr | $49–$100 | $250/hr | 372 | 388 |
| 2026-08-19 | reconstructed | $77/hr | $44–$110 | $250/hr | 132 | 372 |
| 2026-08-16 | archive | $75/hr | $42–$110 | $250/hr | 131 | 376 |
| 2026-08-14 | archive | $75/hr | $39–$108 | $250/hr | 134 | 337 |
| 2026-08-13 | archive | $75/hr | $38–$110 | $250/hr | 124 | 314 |
| 2026-08-12 | archive | $84/hr | $54–$120 | $250/hr | 104 | 248 |
| 2026-08-10 | archive | $80/hr | $45–$110 | $250/hr | 114 | 268 |
| 2026-08-06 | archive | $80/hr | $45–$110 | $300/hr | 117 | 275 |
| 2026-08-05 | archive | $78/hr | $43–$110 | $300/hr | 115 | 246 |
| 2026-08-04 | archive | $74/hr | $39–$100 | $250/hr | 110 | 241 |
| 2026-08-02 | archive | $78/hr | $45–$110 | $250/hr | 100 | 226 |
| 2026-07-31 | archive | $80/hr | $45–$110 | $270/hr | 111 | 235 |
| 2026-07-26 | archive | $84/hr | $47–$113 | $250/hr | 100 | 206 |
| 2026-07-24 | archive | $83/hr | $49–$115 | $250/hr | 97 | 194 |
How to read this
- Snapshot: our own same-day reading of the platform's live feed.
- Reconstructed: rebuilt from our job-level ingestion records (first-seen, closed and rate-change logs) for the day before snapshots began. Rates are as our parser observed them that day; a rate it had not yet read contributes nothing.
- Archive: observed in a dated Internet Archive capture of the platform's own public listings page, parsed with the same rules as live data. The date shown is the capture date.
- ▲ 2026-08-21: Parser improvement: rates in listing descriptions became readable (all rate-change events logged that day are extraction artifacts, not market moves).
- Same rules as everywhere on the site: hourly only, one vote per distinct platform+rate band, midpoint percentiles, no median below 5 distinct rates, ceilings and per-task pay excluded. No point is interpolated; we never draw a line where nothing was observed.