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Who this is for

micro1's current specialist listings include 47 law & legal listings, 22 medicine & health listings, and 21 finance listings. Experience and country requirements vary by role.

Expert networklive feed
$90/hr
median top rate
$45–$130
typical range
$400/hr
highest rate
348
live roles

How much does micro1 pay?

micro1 advertises a median top rate of $90/hr, measured from 128 distinct advertised hourly rates among its 348 live roles on 2026-10-13. The middle half of those rates runs from $45 to $130/hr and the highest is $400/hr. Each rate is the top of a listing's advertised band, the most that role says it can pay, not a promised wage. 8 roles publish no rate at all.

How we measure pay · Pay over time

What it advertises vs what its feed shows

micro1 advertises
Public hourly rates on job posts, typically $50–$200/hr for experts
Its live listings show
Top rates of $45–$130/hr typical, median $90/hr, from 128 distinct advertised rates.
Workers report earning
$25 to $60/hr effective, once unpaid onboarding and waiting for tasks are counted. Once you land a micro1 project it pays $25 to $60 an hour on the clock, but most applicants pass several interviews and never get one, and the contract can come in a third below the listing.

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 medium. It is not measured from our job feed, and it never enters our medians, percentiles, sorting or alerts, which read published rates only.

Country: Rates vary by location and role. US and Western European generalists report $45 to $65 an hour, Latin American annotators $18 to $40, and the September 2026 robotics project advertised $50 to $90 for English-speaking Western countries.

  • ▲ Hourly with Hubstaff tracking on most projects, paid through Deel, with the contract rate often below the listing (one contract applied 0.667 to the posted rate). Some projects are per task with reviews that can pause indefinitely. The range is what contributors on live projects report receiving.
  • ▲ Many report four to six passed interviews and no offer, and one thread of glowing rate reports was suspected by later readers of being astroturfed.
  • ▲ The contract rate can be a third below the listing.
  • ▲ Per-task projects can leave work unreviewed and unpaid for weeks, and projects end without notice.
  • ▲ Trustpilot's 4.7 from 10,164 reviews is written by interview candidates and says nothing about pay.

Sources: reddit.com (2026-03-28) · reddit.com (2026-03-23) · reddit.com (2026-09-09) · reddit.com (2026-05-25) · reddit.com (2026-08-03) · glassdoor.com (2026) · indeed.com (2026)

That median is 29% above the $70/hr median across every platform we track.

Before you apply to micro1

Rate before you apply
Published rates on listings this directory reads
How you get in
Apply once, then matched to projects
Screen in front of the rate
AI interview before you are matched
Listings
One listing per role in our feed
Who they say they will not hire
Publishes a no-hire list of 20 countries and regions, checked 2026-09-05.

What micro1 says, in its own pages

Getting paid
Paid in US dollars twice a month through Deel, usually landing around the 5th and the 20th. Nothing is paid until Deel's identity check is done. library.micro1.ai/working/faqs, library.micro1.ai/working/payroll-policy
Before your first paid task
An AI interview with micro1's recruiter Zara, then your profile, ID verification, a KarmaCheck background check and the Deel contract. Some pipelines add a quiz or test task. micro1.ai/experts, micro1.ai/ai-interview-guide, library.micro1.ai/getting-started/next-steps-after-certif..., library.micro1.ai/working/faqs, library.micro1.ai/working/what-to-expect
How much work
Certification makes you eligible but does not guarantee placement. micro1's FAQ puts the usual commitment at about 15 to 20 hours a week, depending on the client. micro1.ai/experts, library.micro1.ai/working/faqs
Contract
Independent contractor, with the contract issued through Deel. library.micro1.ai/policies/understanding-your-expert-agre..., library.micro1.ai/working/deel

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 run into

  • ▲ An AI interview, then silence or a rejection with no reason given.

What they wish they could see

  • To know, before the interview, whether residents of their country can be hired.
  • A listed rate without sitting the screen first.

What this directory already shows

  • micro1's published no-hire list, including Ukraine, checked from its own experts page.
  • Advertised rates on listings this directory reads, once a role is public.

What we cannot measure

  • Whether the AI interview will pass, or how many weeks a match takes.

Public worker reports and the platform's own pages, gathered by hand on 2026-09-03. Evidence rated medium. Same rules as the reported pay above.

Sources: trustpilot.com (2026-09-03) · micro1.ai (2026-09-02) · Methodology

What people say about micro1

  • Glassdoor 4.6/5 · 19 reviews · trainer role · pay 4.4/5
  • Trustpilot 4.7/5 · 10,159 reviews · contractor profile
  • Glassdoor 4.4/5 · 179 reviews · pay 4.3/5
  • Indeed 4.3/5 · 59 reviews

Praised most

  • ▪ “They're super reliable with pay. Never had an issue, and it's always correct” reddit.com (2026-07-31)
  • ▪ “The pay is good. Yes, you need to figure out your own taxes, but even then the pay is no joke.” reddit.com (2026-09-09)
  • ▪ “Looks like a really well organised company with well explained onboarding.” trustpilot.com (2026-09-11)

Complained about most

  • ▲ “What do you mean people have to keep doing the same interviews for the same type of role” reddit.com (2026-07-30)
  • ▲ “Applicants deserve more transparency so they know what to improve instead of repeatedly guessing.” reddit.com (2026-08-03)
  • ▲ “I found what appeared to be the exact same project being advertised for $20 USD/hr more than what I was getting paid.” reddit.com (2026-09-09)

Where workers talk. micro1 Discord, run by the company · r/micro1_ai, 25,460 members, run by the company · micro1 forum (company), run by the company

Recent developments

  • 2026-09-10 CEO Ali Ansari says micro1 paid 5.8 million USD to nine businesses for enterprise data in 24 hours. (company claim) x.com
  • 2026-09-09 CEO Ali Ansari says micro1 is crossing 10 million expert sign-ups and doubled over the summer (the 5 million in June and 99 days framing was not found). (company claim) x.com
  • 2026-09-05 micro1 announces it is hiring 10,000 robotics trainers in seven days for a video labeling project, with coverage quoting 50 to 90 USD an hour. (company claim) x.com
  • 2026-09-04 micro1 files a 12.5 million USD competing bid for Spirit Aviation's business records, topping Google's 10 million USD auction bid, with a sale hearing set for 9 September 2026. investing.com
  • 2026-08-20 TechCrunch reports micro1's gross annual run rate grew from 100 million to 500 million USD in eight months and hints at a new round at a higher valuation. techcrunch.com
  • 2026-08-20 TechCrunch says micro1 may have raised another round at a significantly higher valuation, with no details confirmed. techcrunch.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 284 worldwide-remote roles

Where micro1 says it cannot hire

Yes. We hire talent from around the world. However, due to legal, regulatory, and security requirements, we are unable to hire individuals who reside in the following countries and regions.

www.micro1.ai, read 2026-09-05

The 20 they name

Afghanistan, Belarus, China, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Hong Kong, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Macau, Myanmar, North Korea, Russia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela, Yemen

Also required, wherever you live

  • 18 or over. You must be at least eighteen (18) years of age to access or use the micro1 Platform. source

micro1's job board carries a 58-country eligibility list in its page markup that includes Belarus, Hong Kong, Iraq, Libya and Russia, which the experts page above bars. That list is identical on unrelated roles, so it reads as a site template rather than a policy, and this page follows the experts page. source

Geography & eligibility

Global minus ~19 excluded countries; AI-interview screening

The honest read

Fast-growing Scale AI challenger ($500M valuation). Apply once, AI interview, then matched to projects.

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