The week in numbers
From 19 October to 25 October 2026: 595 new roles on the platforms we already tracked, and 623 roles closed or taken down. Open roles went from 4,130 to 5,856, including 1,678 from platforms added to the site this week. The median stated pay moved from $60 to $65 an hour.
Best-paid new roles
The new roles this week with the highest stated hourly rate, one per title.
- $350/hr Radiologist · Mercor
- $350/hr Cardiologist · Mercor
- $350/hr Orthopedic Surgeon · Mercor
- $350/hr CTO / Head of AI Expert · Ethos
- $350/hr Enterprise Seller of Open-Weight AI Models Expert · Ethos
- $350/hr Shadow AI & SaaS Visibility (Mid-Market) Expert · Ethos
- $300/hr Creative Advisor - Human Frontier Collective (US) · Scale AI
- $275/hr Dermatologist · Mercor
- $140–400/hr Investment Funds & Asset Management Attorney · micro1
- $140–400/hr Venture Capital & Corporate Attorney · micro1
Who posted the most
New roles by platform this week, on platforms we already tracked.
- 209 new
- 121 new
- 64 new
- 39 new
- 34 new
- 15 new
- 14 new
- 14 new
Fields that moved
Change in open roles by each role's main field over the week. Platforms added to the site this week count here, so a jump can be new coverage rather than new hiring.
- +404 Other expertise (524 to 928)
- +351 Voice & audio (549 to 900)
- +219 AI evaluation & rating (260 to 479)
- −2 Education & teaching (17 to 15)
- −1 Red-teaming & safety (76 to 75)
Platforms added to the site
Their open roles are counted from the day we added them, not as new hiring.
10x Team (107), Aligned (15), amazon-agi (0), Aptura (27), Askable (3), BeatpulseLabs (1), Besimple AI (1), Chemin (19), CNTXT AI (22), CVAT (1), Ethos (316), Fleet AI (2), HumanSignal (26), Jobgether (9), JT AI Labs (142), Label Your Data (4), Lifted, an Upwork Company (41), Lilt (371), Lionbridge AI Data Training (49), mistral (0), mpathic (11), Patronus AI (6), Perle (63), Poindexter Labs (1), Remote Talent Cloud (1), Sepal AI (59), Smallest.ai (4), TELUS Digital AI Community (21), TSMG (158), Turing (166), Vals AI (1), Verita AI (31)