One of my most popular posts on this blog is the one on work at home jobs paying $10 or more an hour. Since writing that post, I've had a few people tell me they think that in this day and age, even $10 an hour isn't much money. While that's still more than minimum wage in many states, I would have to agree that it's not as much now as it was ten years ago.
So today's post is kind of a follow-up to that post. I've made a list of those companies that pay $12 or more an hour. You'll see some companies that may be familiar from the other post, but I've also made an effort to include some companies that are not on the list so it won't be an identical list.
And although I've done research here using Glassdoor and various work at home forums to find out for sure what these companies pay, I can't guarantee them. Feel free to let me know in the comments if I've gotten any of these rates wrong.
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#1 – Apple – Read Apple Review – Work at home chat agent jobs are often available for people in the US at Apple. The pay rate varies per employee, but is typically over $12 an hour.
#2 – Appen Butler Hill – Read Appen Review – Appen Butler Hill occasionally hires work at home web search evaluators. These positions pay a little over $13 an hour.
#3 – Blooms Today – Read Blooms Today Review – This popular floral company hires seasonal customer service agents during the busy flower-ordering seasons. Pay is usually listed at around $15 an hour.
#4 – Blue Zebra Appointment Setting – Read Blue Zebra Review – This is B2B calling (cold calling). They pay very well, typically $15 an hour or more. They do prefer to hire people who have experience in cold calling and appointment setting.
#5 – Brighten Communications – Read Brighten Communications Review – Another company that hires work at home cold callers. Pays between $12 and $18 hourly.
#6 – Carlson Wagonlit Travel – Read Carlson Wagonlit Travel Review – They occasionally hire remote travel counselors. The position pays around $15 an hour.
#7 – Doctors on Demand – Read Doctors on Demand Review – Hires people with at least 2 years of experience in healthcare for customer support positions paying between $16 and $18 hourly. Position not always open.
#8 – eModeration – Read eModeration Review – This company regular hires work at home community/social media moderators. They don't list the pay on their website, but someone submitted a moderator salary for this company on Glassdoor that shows it's between $15 and $16 an hour. This could vary however.
#9 – Elevate K12 – Read Elevate K12 Review – Regularly has openings for virtual instructors. They pay their online instructors about $12 an hour.
#10 – Executive Scheduling Associates – This company hires work at home schedulers to schedule appointments for financial wholesalers. Pay starts at $12 an hour.
#11 – Extended Presence – This company hires experienced work at home telemarketers/appointment setters. The rate of pay isn't listed, but from research I've done, it's most likely over $12 an hour.
#12 – Ginger.io – This company hires people with counseling and/or therapy experience to be “listeners/therapists” for people calling needing to talk. Note it is not a crisis or suicide hotline. Pay is $15 an hour.
#13 – Hilton Worldwide – Read Hilton Worldwide Review – Work at home doing phone work for this popular hotel chain. Your pay should average between $12 and $15 hourly after training. Most of the time, this company is only hiring in specific US states.
#14 – Intermedia – This company has regular openings for remote tech support within various states in the US. They pay around $18 to their work at home tech support agents.
#15 – iSoftStone – Read iSoftStone Review – This is work at home search engine evaluation, and the company also other types of work at home positions on occasion as well. Pay is around $12 an hour.
#16 – Leapforce – Read Leapforce Review – Another remote search engine evaluation company. The pay here is right around $13 hourly.
#17 – Lionbridge – Read Lionbridge Review – This is another reputable search engine evaluation company. They have many projects that pay over $13 an hour.
#18 – Panda Tree – Work at home tutoring students in Spanish or Mandarin. Earn $12+ hourly.
#19 – Nextwave Advocacy – Read Nextwave Advocacy Review – Political outreach calling, project-based work. Pays $12 an hour.
#20 – OnPoint Advocacy – Read OnPoint Advocacy Review – This is also political outreach calling. While they do not make their rate of pay public, I have seen some old job postings advertising it to be around $12 an hour.
#21 – Paragon Planners – Read Paragon Planners Review – This is phone work from home where you schedule appointments for financial wholesalers. Earn between $12 and $14 hourly.
#22 – PrepNow – Read PrepNow Review – This is a company that hires people to work at home tutoring students on the SAT, ACT, and Math. Must have experience tutoring plus a 4-year college degree. Pays about $15 an hour.
#23 – Red Butler – Read Red Butler Review – This company has regular openings for work at home virtual assistants. Pay is between $12 and $15 an hour.
#24 – Rosetta Stone – Read Rosetta Stone Review – Work at home as a language coach, earning about $17 hourly. This is usually location-based work with a flexible schedule.
#25 – SmartBrief – Read SmartBrief Review – This is a freelance writing position for short news articles. It's shift-based work that may pay around $14 hourly.
#26 – StitchFix – Read StitchFix Stylist Review – You can work at home as a remote fashion stylist for StitchFix in certain areas. They pay $15 an hour.
#27 – Support.com – Read Support.com Review – Support has several work at home tech support positions available. The personal technology expert remote job pays on average $13.96 per hour, according to Glassdoor.
#28 – The ACT – Work at home scoring ACT essays. While the pay is performance-based, you can earn $12 an hour or more.
#29 – VIPKid – Read VIPKid Review – Work at home tutoring elementary school age Chinese children in English. Pays $7 to $9 a lesson with each lesson lasting 25 minutes.
#30 – Worldwide 101 – Read Worldwide 101 Review – This company hires work at home virtual assistants worldwide. Pay ranges from $15 and $20 hourly.
#31 – The Yeomen – This company regularly hires email support reps to work at home (non-phone). The pay is rumored to be between $13 and $18 hourly. This info comes from Glassdoor anonymous salary reports.
#32 – Zirtual – Read Zirtual Review – This is work at home virtual assisting. The company recently shut down, but I heard they are back up and running. I'm not sure if they've gone back to hiring VA's, but in the past, the virtual assistants for Zirtual were rumored to be earning between $12 and $13 an hour.
I will add to this list if I can find some more, and as always I encourage you to comment below if you are aware of some companies paying $12 an hour or more that I could add.
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Thanks Anna!
This post was really helpful providing a lot of insight in the Working Online world. I was wondering, though, if there is any opprtunties for highering freelancers or employees outside of the US. I am an Egyptian currently living in Egypt who is eager to start working online however in most of these links they require you to be in the US.
Yes, unfortunately most of what I find is for people based in the US. However, I do have a post here with info on finding work at home jobs in other parts of the world – https://realwaystoearnmoneyonline.com/where-to-look-for-worldwide-work-at-home/ I hope it helps!
I currently work at a call center in teas doing technical support for cox cable. However my grandmother has became very ill and I need to move back home to Alabama to care for her and I am looking for a work at home job that may be similar to what I am doing now.. I have over 8 years of cust service experience and callcenter experience.
Hi Anna,
By any chance, have you come across any at home jobs involving vitamins/supplements? Thanks!
I am a retired teacher/administrator looking for a proofreader work from home job. Then I want to advance to something else. I have all day to work.
This is fabulous! I will be looking into these for sure. I will be back to update if anything has changed as I am just reading this list and it has been some time since it has been posted
Appreciate your time and effort for those of us whom really need to be working from the homestead.
Thank you,
K
Hi Anna, do you have work from home jobs which are similar to sites like textbroker.com and pay weekly via paypal and the pay is higher than $10 an hour
I can’t think of anything that meets that specific criteria, but I can link you to some other posts that may help:
Writing sites like Textbroker -https://realwaystoearnmoneyonline.com/writing-sites-like-textbroker/
Weekly Pay Work at Home – https://realwaystoearnmoneyonline.com/work-at-home-jobs-that-pay-weekly/
You the best, you really know your way around online jobs, please keep us updated even with sites that require no w-9, little or non experience and pay on time on a weekly basis especially during this festive season, happy thanksgiving day.
I’m a newbie and have never worked from home.
I am retired and live in California.
I would love to be able to work my own hours/days.
I babysit irregular hours/days so I need something flexible.
Thank you for your input.
hope this works
Unfortunately, in Italy many of these sites do not work
Surprised you haven’t included website reviewing/testing into the article. Some sites I recommend that you can earn 12 or more an hour are: UserTest.io, WhatMyUsersDo, TryMyUI, Loop 11 and UserTesting. If you signed up to all of them you have the potential to earn $100 a day. I do recommend UserTest.io over the rest as they pay £8 for every website you review, they don’t fluctuate between 1-10 pounds/dollars.
Thank you for the article! I’ll be sure to share it with friends and family.
Thanks! You are right, these pay very well. I think the reason I didn’t add them is because the work is kind of sporadic and not necessarily guaranteed to be steady since most of those opportunities are first come, first serve.
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Support.com doesn’t pay what you have listed they pay 10.50 he with a 50 cent reimbursement coming out to 11 an hour.
Thanks, I will double check. I think they at one point they did have some positions that paid $12 an hour (which is why it’s listed) but I’ll go back and do some research.
Hi Ana,
Thanks for the list. I am already making use of a couple of them, although the pay rate is lower outside US. I can’t mention the vendor and pay rate, because of contractual obligations. But thanks anyways, its good part time money.
Keep up the good work, you are helping many people generate some extra income.
Best wishes.
Great list please continue to update.
Thanks for putting this list together Anna. I’m familiar with a lot of these but you also introduced me to some new ones. Definitely passing this along.
Hope you’re having a great week so far!
Cori
Thank you for this post. Since graduating college, I’ve been looking for ways to earn extra cash. Here are 2 more at- home jobs I have recently discovered. Smartthinking.com, I am not sure what the pay is but this would be a good place for someone who likes to proofread essays. Their service was offered through my university and I have enjoyed using their service multiple times. Additionally, Chegg.com hires online tutors and pays $20/hour!
Is this for real? I signed on to many sites and had no luck lately.
Zero Chaos no longer hires English Ads Raters from home. The position is now in office or from home but for foreign languages. I know this because I’ve been communicating with them and they informed me they are no longer contracting with Google for US English Raters at home.
Hi.any more details you have would be appreciated. They were still hiring English raters in November. Does this mean they wont be adding to their existing English elraters or they are out and shutting down?
ZeroChaos is again hiring US Based English Ad Raters. I started in early October 2016.
Bazaarvoice is another one. Bazaarvoice.com They hire content moderators to read consumer reviews several times throughout the year. Pay starts at $10
Just wanted to say thank you for putting this together.
I would like to find typing jobs to do from home or legal and/or medical transcription, all of which I have experience in and my typing speed is very fast. I have in the past owned a transcription service which I was forced to give up five years ago when I had cancer. Now I would like to find some type of transcription job to do again from home.
You can go to mtjobs.com they have a lot of transcription jobs
Thanks for this list. I didn’t know so many companies fell into this category. This list is especially helpful going into the (often times expensive) holiday season.
We shared this post on 1099 Mom.
ISoftStone is another remote consulting job that pays $12 an hour and up. Likely, I first saw that job on your blog. Pearson, Smarthinking, and ETS represent well-known other tutoring and exam-scoring from-home jobs. Actually, with the education level often required, some places could stand to raise their wages a few dollars higher an hour..
Hi Anna! This is a great list. I didn’t realize so many companies offer $12.00+ an hour rates. Book In A Box is another great company to get in with that pays really well! I’ved hear from many in the freelance circle that their pay rates are well over the $12.00 mark and, depending on the project, can go considerably higher! They have positions available like Outliner, Editor, Sales, and Publishing Manager.
Thanks, Ashlee! Book in a Box sounds a little bit familiar. I’ll have to check into them further, it sounds great!