Mercor pay over time
Mercor's median advertised rate is $105/hr as of 2026-10-13 (85 distinct rates), up 25% from $84/hr on 2026-08-26 (139 distinct rates, the first full day on the current basis).
- $105/hr
- median · 2026-10-13
- $70–$150
- typical range
- 85
- distinct rates behind it
- 68
- observations since 2026-07-24
Every observation
| Day | Source | Median | Typical | Top | Distinct rates | Open roles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-13 | snapshot | $105/hr | $70–$150 | $450/hr | 85 | 273 |
| 2026-10-12 | snapshot | $100/hr | $70–$150 | $450/hr | 89 | 280 |
| 2026-10-11 | snapshot | $100/hr | $70–$150 | $450/hr | 90 | 281 |
| 2026-10-10 | snapshot | $100/hr | $70–$150 | $450/hr | 93 | 285 |
| 2026-10-09 | snapshot | $100/hr | $65–$150 | $450/hr | 93 | 286 |
| 2026-10-08 | snapshot | $100/hr | $65–$150 | $380/hr | 95 | 289 |
| 2026-10-07 | snapshot | $90/hr | $60–$150 | $250/hr | 100 | 299 |
| 2026-10-06 | snapshot | $90/hr | $62–$150 | $250/hr | 97 | 308 |
| 2026-10-05 | snapshot | $90/hr | $62–$125 | $250/hr | 104 | 313 |
| 2026-10-04 | snapshot | $90/hr | $60–$125 | $250/hr | 103 | 312 |
| 2026-10-03 | snapshot | $90/hr | $60–$125 | $250/hr | 103 | 315 |
| 2026-10-02 | snapshot | $90/hr | $60–$130 | $250/hr | 102 | 314 |
| 2026-10-01 | snapshot | $90/hr | $55–$125 | $250/hr | 107 | 329 |
| 2026-09-30 | snapshot | $85/hr | $55–$125 | $250/hr | 112 | 345 |
| 2026-09-29 | snapshot | $84/hr | $54–$125 | $250/hr | 116 | 358 |
| 2026-09-28 | snapshot | $84/hr | $55–$120 | $250/hr | 117 | 371 |
| 2026-09-27 | snapshot | $84/hr | $60–$120 | $250/hr | 116 | 371 |
| 2026-09-26 | snapshot | $84/hr | $60–$120 | $250/hr | 116 | 372 |
| 2026-09-25 | snapshot | $85/hr | $60–$125 | $270/hr | 120 | 366 |
| 2026-09-24 | snapshot | $85/hr | $60–$125 | $400/hr | 121 | 356 |
| 2026-09-23 | snapshot | $84/hr | $55–$125 | $400/hr | 123 | 370 |
| 2026-09-22 | snapshot | $81/hr | $55–$120 | $400/hr | 121 | 376 |
| 2026-09-21 | snapshot | $80/hr | $52–$120 | $400/hr | 121 | 367 |
| 2026-09-20 | snapshot | $84/hr | $54–$120 | $270/hr | 129 | 390 |
| 2026-09-19 | snapshot | $85/hr | $55–$120 | $270/hr | 130 | 389 |
| 2026-09-18 | snapshot | $90/hr | $60–$130 | $300/hr | 136 | 416 |
| 2026-09-17 | snapshot | $90/hr | $60–$140 | $400/hr | 144 | 479 |
| 2026-09-16 | snapshot | $90/hr | $60–$150 | $400/hr | 144 | 475 |
| 2026-09-15 | snapshot | $88/hr | $55–$130 | $400/hr | 131 | 453 |
| 2026-09-14 | snapshot | $90/hr | $57–$130 | $270/hr | 128 | 412 |
| 2026-09-13 | snapshot | $90/hr | $60–$130 | $270/hr | 128 | 419 |
| 2026-09-12 | snapshot | $90/hr | $60–$130 | $270/hr | 125 | 392 |
| 2026-09-11 | snapshot | $90/hr | $60–$130 | $270/hr | 127 | 407 |
| 2026-09-10 | snapshot | $90/hr | $60–$140 | $270/hr | 133 | 402 |
| 2026-09-09 | snapshot | $90/hr | $60–$150 | $250/hr | 124 | 397 |
| 2026-09-08 | snapshot | $88/hr | $55–$130 | $250/hr | 129 | 414 |
| 2026-09-07 | snapshot | $81/hr | $49–$120 | $250/hr | 147 | 463 |
| 2026-09-06 | snapshot | $80/hr | $49–$120 | $250/hr | 150 | 466 |
| 2026-09-05 | snapshot | $80/hr | $50–$120 | $250/hr | 156 | 495 |
| 2026-09-04 | snapshot | $80/hr | $50–$120 | $250/hr | 156 | 504 |
| 2026-09-03 | snapshot | $85/hr | $54–$130 | $250/hr | 147 | 471 |
| 2026-09-02 | snapshot | $85/hr | $54–$120 | $250/hr | 142 | 469 |
| 2026-09-01 | snapshot | $88/hr | $54–$130 | $250/hr | 140 | 451 |
| 2026-08-31 | snapshot | $85/hr | $54–$130 | $250/hr | 139 | 449 |
| 2026-08-30 | snapshot | $84/hr | $54–$130 | $250/hr | 144 | 451 |
| 2026-08-29 | snapshot | $84/hr | $50–$120 | $250/hr | 146 | 470 |
| 2026-08-28 | snapshot | $84/hr | $50–$130 | $250/hr | 141 | 463 |
| 2026-08-27 | snapshot | $85/hr | $54–$135 | $250/hr | 140 | 444 |
| 2026-08-26 | snapshot | $84/hr | $50–$130 | $250/hr | 139 | 448 |
| 2026-08-25 ▲ | snapshot | $85/hr | $54–$130 | $250/hr | 137 | 423 |
| 2026-08-24 | snapshot | $78/hr | $44–$110 | $250/hr | 136 | 423 |
| 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).
- ▲ 2026-08-25: Basis change: statistics moved from midpoints of ranges (ceilings excluded) to the top of every advertised band, ceilings included. Level shifts across this date are the basis change, not market moves.
- Same rules as everywhere on the site: hourly only, one vote per distinct platform+rate band, percentiles of the top of each band (midpoints with ceilings excluded before 2026-08-25), no median below 5 distinct rates, per-task pay excluded. No point is interpolated; we never draw a line where nothing was observed.