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AfterQuery pay, read from its own job feed

Expert networklive feed
$93/hr
median top rate
$63–$123
typical range
$175/hr
highest rate
219
live roles

How much does AfterQuery pay?

AfterQuery advertises a median top rate of $93/hr, measured from 43 distinct advertised hourly rates among its 219 live roles on 2026-10-12. The middle half of those rates runs from $63 to $123/hr and the highest is $175/hr. Each rate is the top of a listing's advertised band, the most that role says it can pay, not a promised wage.

How we measure pay · Pay over time

What it advertises vs what its feed shows

AfterQuery advertises
Publishes a rate on the face of every listing on its public expert board, from $10–$30/hr on entry tracks to $200–$250/hr on specialist ones
Its live listings show
Top rates of $63–$123/hr typical, median $93/hr, from 43 distinct advertised rates.
Workers report earning
$15 to $50/hr effective, once unpaid onboarding and waiting for tasks are counted. AfterQuery's $75 to $100 tasks take four to five hours in workers' accounts, so plan on $15 to $20 an hour and on waiting weeks or months for approval before anything is paid.

Where the reported figure comes from

Public worker reports, the platform's own published rates and help pages, and reporting, gathered by hand on 2026-09-12. Evidence rated low. It is not measured from our job feed, and it never enters our medians, percentiles, sorting or alerts, which read published rates only.

Country: Reviewers are in the United States, Kenya and Ethiopia. Rates are set by role rather than published by country, and the per-task complaints are the same everywhere.

  • ▲ Increasingly per approved task at $75 to $100 each, with hourly contracts on some roles. Workers convert by timing tasks, and the one computed figure is a $75 task taking 4 to 5 hours, about $15 to $19 an hour. Approval and payment can take weeks to months.
  • ▲ The $75 task at 4 to 5 hours is the only effective figure any worker computed.
  • ▲ Unreviewed tasks earn nothing for months and can be removed from the dashboard.
  • ▲ The high end is what hourly experts are offered, and no worker report confirms receiving it.
  • ▲ Applications often get no response at all.

Sources: trustpilot.com (2026-09-04) · reddit.com (2026-09-09) · reddit.com (2026-07-30) · glassdoor.com (2026) · reddit.com (2026-08-04)

That median is 33% above the $70/hr median across every platform we track.

Before you apply to AfterQuery

Rate before you apply
Published rates on listings this directory reads
How you get in
Public expert board, rate on the listing
Screen in front of the rate
Listed rate is on the posting, no account needed to read it
Listings
One listing per role in our feed
Who they say they will not hire
Publishes a no-hire list of 46 countries and regions, checked 2026-09-05.

What AfterQuery says, in its own pages

Getting paid
Approved work is paid every Friday for the prior week, by Stripe to a bank account, with no fees. Stripe holds the first payout for 7 days. docs.afterquery.com/articles/payments-taxes/payment-setup
Before your first paid task
One assessment per expert pool, unpaid and with no retake. Onboarding takes about 10 minutes: legal documents, phone, ID through Persona, and payments. docs.afterquery.com/articles/onboarding/assessments, docs.afterquery.com/articles/onboarding/complete-your-onb...
How much work
Projects are assigned by assessment fit as they come up, and higher-rated contributors get priority. docs.afterquery.com/articles/onboarding/assessments, docs.afterquery.com/articles/about/contract-work
Contract
Independent contractor. Most contractors register as individuals. docs.afterquery.com/articles/about/contract-work, docs.afterquery.com/articles/onboarding/complete-your-onb...

Read on the pages linked above on 23 Sep 2026. Platforms change these terms, so check the linked page before you rely on one.

What people say about AfterQuery

Praised most

  • ▪ “One of the best companies I have ever worked at as a software engineer.” trustpilot.com (2026-08-04)
  • ▪ “They are providing timely payment and best Value for our work” trustpilot.com (2026-08-07)
  • ▪ “Honestly the test was pretty easy and seems open to pretty much anyone willing to put in the effort.” reddit.com (2026-05-10)

Complained about most

  • ▲ “Payments were repeatedly delayed and ultimately not paid out” trustpilot.com (2026-08-21)
  • ▲ “It allegedly pays per approved task, but either keeps your task in review forever or dissaaproves it for arbitrary reasons.” reddit.com (2026-07-25)
  • ▲ “a large number of Stripe accounts are being placed on hold, making it difficult or impossible for workers to receive their payments.” reddit.com (2026-08-21)

Where workers talk. r/AfterQuery_Experts, 5,750 members, run by the company · r/AfterQuery_Workers, 135 members · AfterQuery Experts Slack workspace, 14,000 members, run by the company

Recent developments

  • 2026-09-02 Forbes Australia: the round has a lead investor lined up and the company is profitable, size and lead not named. forbes.com.au
  • 2026-09-02 Co-founder growth claim relayed by Forbes: recurring revenue in the hundreds of millions as of July 2026. (company claim) forbes.com.au
  • 2026-09-01 TechCrunch reported a new round valuing AfterQuery at 3.2B USD, first reported by Forbes. techcrunch.com
  • 2026-08-21 Workers report Stripe payout accounts placed on hold, blocking payments. (worker report) reddit.com
  • 2026-08-04 Company-worded Reddit hiring post for part-time software engineers at 75 USD per approved task. (company claim) reddit.com
  • 2026-04-10 AfterQuery announced a 30M USD Series A at a 300M USD valuation led by Altos Ventures. pulse2.com

Gathered by hand on 2026-09-11 from the linked pages. Ratings are other sites' scores, quoted with their counts and scope. A figure a company states about itself is marked as a claim. Nothing here enters our pay figures, rankings or alerts.

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What it hires for

Where its roles are open

plus 191 worldwide-remote roles

Where AfterQuery says it cannot hire

If your country is listed below, please refrain from commencing work. Some of these countries aren't supported by Stripe yet and may become available over time. Others are restricted for legal and compliance reasons.

docs.afterquery.com, read 2026-09-05

The 46 they name

Afghanistan, Argentina, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bolivia, Brazil, Burundi, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Eritrea, Ghana, Gibraltar, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Libya, Macau, Monaco, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Nigeria, North Korea, Palestine, Paraguay, Republic of the Congo, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Korea, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uruguay, Venezuela, Yemen, Zimbabwe

Geography & eligibility

Global

The honest read

YC-backed expert data platform. Its public board showed 126 open listings on 2026-08-26, each printing its own rate, no account needed.

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