How much does Mercor pay?

Mercor's researched rate card says $63–$90/hr median listing; experts to $450/hr (platform-stated, as of 8 Nov 2026). From Mercor's own public listings API on 8 Nov 2026 (276 active gigs, 232 priced by the hour; its 82 always-open talent-network pools left out): hourly listings run $10 to $450 and the middle listing $63 to $90 an hour. By field (median low and high ends): medicine $150 to $170 ($45 to $450), with physician specialists at $150 to $450 (oncologists $350 to $450; radiologists, orthopedic surgeons and cardiologists $350; general surgeons, OB/GYNs, rheumatologists, nephrologists and endocrinologists $200); law $90 to $110 ($60 to $150); life, physical and social science $70 to $100; finance $70 to $100; software engineering $65 to $90; language and audio $50 ($15 to $150, the top being voice-cloning actors). A further 44 listings pay per task (34), one-time (7) or yearly (3). Mercor's homepage states an 'Average contracted rate' of $90/hr (read 8 Nov 2026; $92/hr on 31 Oct, $96/hr on 29 Oct, $100/hr on 27 Oct), above the middle listing because of the physician and attorney tail. Third-party reviews (not Mercor) cite a ladder of $12-$25 foundational, $25-$53 mid and $75-$200+ expert work; 17 of the 232 hourly listings open below $30.

Paid every Wednesday for the prior week's approved hours, through Stripe Connect or Wise; the first Stripe payout is held 7 days. No tax is withheld. Its tax page still cites a $600 1099-NEC threshold (read 8 Nov 2026); for 2026 payments the IRS threshold is $2,000.

Mercor does not take on contractors located in Andorra, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Barbados, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Bahamas, Bhutan, Belarus, Belize, DR Congo, Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Cameroon, China, Cuba, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Dominica, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Micronesia, Grenada, Georgia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Haiti, Iraq, Iran, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Kiribati, Comoros, St. Kitts and Nevis, North Korea, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Moldova, Montenegro, Marshall Islands, Mali, Myanmar, Mauritania, Maldives, Malawi, Niger, Nicaragua, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan, Palestine, Palau, Russia, Solomon Islands, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Suriname, South Sudan, São Tomé and Príncipe, Syria, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Tonga, Tuvalu, Ukraine, Uganda, Vatican City, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Venezuela, Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Mercor's own page (read 8 Nov 2026) lists the 107 countries it works with.