Business and operations is the largest professional category on this site, with 86 open roles carrying 3,667 openings from Mercor (42), micro1 (21), Terac (16) and AfterQuery (7).
It is also the least tidy. The listings cover operations managers, project and programme managers, management consultants, HR and recruiting, procurement and vendor management, product managers, customer support and success, logistics and supply chain, real estate, executive assistants, and a long tail of things that only make sense as “running an organisation”. That breadth is the point: models are poor at how work actually gets done inside a company, and almost nobody writes that down.
Hourly roles span $18–280, with a median ceiling of $100 an hour, against $100 across the site as a whole.
How much do paid expert interviews pay?
16 of the 86 roles pay per session rather than hourly, more than any other profession here carries. These are paid expert interviews, the same model expert networks run, and this category holds the biggest individual figure anywhere on the site: a Terac interview with technical recruiters about full-cycle hiring, at $3,000 for the session.
It is not alone. Terac lists a 60-minute interview with logistics professionals on air freight at $283, a structured interview with pharmaceutical regulatory affairs professionals at $270, one with senior hospital administrators at $259, and interviews with European logistics and ocean logistics decision-makers at $257 each.
The pattern is consistent. These are paid research interviews with people who hold decision authority in a specific operational domain, priced by how hard that person is to reach, not by the hour. A $3,000 fee is not a rate, and this site does not convert it into one, because the listing gives no duration to divide by.
If your job involves decisions a vendor would want to understand, this is the part of the market to watch.
Your job function is the qualification
Mercor runs twenty evaluator listings, nearly all at $80 to $120 an hour, and each names a specific operational function:
procurement and vendor management, process improvement and SOPs, public-sector procurement and RFI responses, finance operations and audit support, data quality and CRM operations, inventory and capacity planning, programme management and implementation planning, product management and PRDs, product launch readiness, people ops and recruiting, training and onboarding, customer success operations, healthcare operations, government and public administration, nonprofit and community programmes, user research synthesis, document and deck production QA, and general business strategy.
If one of those is simply your job, that is the qualification. No credential is named because the work being bought is your familiarity with how the function runs in practice.
Excel and PowerPoint skills are paid work here
A distinct group of listings treat fluency in ordinary office software as the expertise.
Mercor lists an MS Excel and Google Sheets Evaluator role at $80 to $150, Excel Expert roles for finance and general use at $70 to $100, and roles for people who use Excel or PowerPoint on a specific operating system at $60 to $70. micro1 lists Excel Specialist and PowerPoint Specialist roles at $20 to $60, and a Word and PDF Experts role at $20 to $55.
The gap between those two tiers is wide for what sounds like the same skill, so the rate is worth reading before the title.
Where the rates actually sit
The band with the most listings is not the band with the most seats.
| Advertised top rate | Roles | Openings | Openings per role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under $30 | 1 | 49 | 49 |
| $30 to $49 | 4 | 70 | 18 |
| $50 to $99 | 22 | 1,108 | 50 |
| $100+ | 43 | 1,052 | 24 |
Most of the hourly roles advertise $100 or more, but each of those takes fewer people than the roles in the band below it. The high rates are real and the seats behind them are few.
Watch for the same job title at two different rates. micro1 lists Personal Assistant twice, once at $50 to $100 and once at $20 to $34. A title tells you almost nothing here; the stated band and the scope in the listing tell you everything.
Can you do this outside the US?
None of the 86 roles state a US-only restriction outright, which makes this one of the more open categories on the site.
The exception in practice is the research interviews, which often target a specific market because the questions are about a specific system. A study on US payer interactions needs people who work inside it, and a European air freight interview needs people who work in that corridor.
Where to start
Browse the open business and operations roles to see current listings with their stated rates and units.
Because so much of this category is per-session work instead of ongoing contracts, whether AI training can be a full-time income is worth reading before you plan around it.