In today's post, I've made a list of companies that pay $12 an hour or more. It's safe to say that for many people, $12 an hour isn't quite enough money. But, it does put you over minimum wage for most US states.
Many work at home jobs don't pay much at all, so I'm hopeful that this list will give you some ideas of companies to look at if $12 is the bare minimum for what you can accept.
I'd recommend checking out this list of higher-paying work at home jobs if what's listed in this post doesn't give you enough ideas. And then FlexJobs is a great resource for finding quality, high-pay work at home job leads on a daily basis that are guaranteed to be legitimate if you want to do more digging outside what I have posted here.
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 the rates since this is something that changes periodically from company to company.
List Of Work at Home Jobs Paying $12 an Hour or More
VIPKid – Read VIPKid Review – Open worldwide (except for California). Work at home tutoring elementary school age Chinese children in English. Pays $7 to $9 a lesson with each lesson lasting 25 minutes. You must have a bachelor's degree to qualify.
Magic Ears – Read Magic Ears Review – Open to US (except for California), Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. You must be a native English speaker to qualify. For this company, you work at home tutoring school age children in the English language, similar to VIPKid (listed above). Magic Ears claims it's possible to earn up to $26 hourly working with them. You must have a bachelor's degree to qualify.
Apple – Read Apple Review – US. Work at home chat and phone agent jobs are often available at Apple. The pay rate varies per employee, but is typically over $12 an hour.
Appen – Read Appen Review – US and sometimes other countries. Appen occasionally hires work at home web search evaluators. These positions pay a little over $13 an hour.
Blooms Today – Read Blooms Today Review – US only. This popular floral company hires seasonal customer service agents during the busy flower-ordering seasons. Pay is usually listed at around $15 an hour. They aren't hiring all the time, but their application page seems to always be in place.
Aira – Read Aira Review – US only. This is a company that hires people to do voice chats with the blind and visually impaired. The purpose of this is to help them with everyday tasks. Pay is rumored to be around $15 hourly. Not always hiring.
The Social Element – Read The Social Element 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.
Elevate K12 – Read Elevate K12 Review – Regularly has openings for virtual instructors. They pay their online instructors about $12 an hour.
Ginger.io – Read Ginger.io Review – US only. 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 $17 (possibly more) an hour.
Hilton Worldwide – Read Hilton Worldwide Review – US only, usually specific states. Work at home doing phone work for this popular hotel chain. Your pay should average between $12 and $15 hourly after training.
Intermedia – US, Canada, UK, and Russia. This company has regular openings for remote tech support. They pay around $18 to their work at home tech support agents.
iSoftStone – Read iSoftStone Review – Often open to multiple countries. 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.
Lionbridge – Read Lionbridge Review – Open worldwide. This is another reputable search engine evaluation company. They have many projects that pay over $13 an hour.
Panda Tree – Read PandaTree Review – US and occasionally Canada. Work at home tutoring students in Spanish or Mandarin. Earn $12+ hourly.
Nextwave Advocacy – Read Nextwave Advocacy Review – US only. Political outreach calling, project-based work. Pays $12 an hour.
OnPoint Advocacy – Read OnPoint Advocacy Review – US only. 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.
Paragon Planners – Read Paragon Planners Review – They look for people in the following US states – AZ, CA, CO, FL, ID, IL, KS, KY, MI, MO, NC, OH, OR, PA, SC, TX, UT & WA. This is phone work from home where you schedule appointments for financial wholesalers. Earn between $12 and $14 hourly.
PrepNow – Read PrepNow Review – US only. 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.
QKids – Read QKids Review – Open to US and Canada. You are eligible to apply as long as you either have a degree or are actively enrolled in a university. Earn up to $20 hourly.
Rosetta Stone – Read Rosetta Stone Review – US and occasionally other countries. Work at home as a language coach, earning about $17 hourly. This is usually location-based work with a flexible schedule.
SayABC – Read SayABC Review – Open worldwide. Must be a native English speaker with a bachelor's degree or above. Earn up to $21 hourly.
StitchFix – Read StitchFix Stylist Review – US only. They tend to hire in various regions, and this changes periodically. You can work at home as a remote fashion stylist for StitchFix in certain areas. They pay $15 an hour.
Support.com – Read Support.com Review – US only, specific states. 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.
The ACT – Read The ACT Review – US only. Work at home scoring ACT essays. While the pay is performance-based, you can earn $12 an hour or more.
Boldly – Read Boldly Review – Open to UK and specific US states, including CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, IL, KY, MD, MA, MI, MN, MT, NH, NJ, NY, NC, OH, PA, TN, TX, VA, WA. This company hires work at home virtual assistants worldwide. Pay ranges from $15 and $20 hourly.
Concentrix – Read Concentrix Review – US, multiple states. There are always multiple work at home customer support jobs posted, and some of these do pay upwards of $12 hourly.
Zirtual – Read Zirtual Review – US only. This is work at home virtual assisting. The job postings indicate the assistants who work for this company will earn between $14 and $20 hourly.
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Post originally published October 27, 2015. Updated and republished on August 17, 2020.
Jessica says
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.
Julie says
Hi Anna,
By any chance, have you come across any at home jobs involving vitamins/supplements? Thanks!
Carol Dixon says
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.
Kristen Degler says
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
bmahingo says
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
Anna T. says
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 -http://realwaystoearnmoneyonline.com/writing-sites-like-textbroker/
Weekly Pay Work at Home – http://realwaystoearnmoneyonline.com/work-at-home-jobs-that-pay-weekly/
bmahingo says
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.
Dawn Nichols says
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.
mitchelle says
hope this works
aquila1769 says
Unfortunately, in Italy many of these sites do not work
Preston says
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.
Anna says
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.
Pauline Herrin says
Looking for work at home jobs
Joe schmoe says
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.
Anna says
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.
Gaurav says
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.
Erica Ballantine says
Great list please continue to update.
Cori Ramos says
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
Dillon says
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!
Melissa Funderburk says
Is this for real? I signed on to many sites and had no luck lately.
JC says
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.
Georgia says
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?
Kimberly Boschee says
ZeroChaos is again hiring US Based English Ad Raters. I started in early October 2016.
Ellen says
Bazaarvoice is another one. Bazaarvoice.com They hire content moderators to read consumer reviews several times throughout the year. Pay starts at $10
TomL says
Just wanted to say thank you for putting this together.
Kathleen Peters says
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.
April says
You can go to mtjobs.com they have a lot of transcription jobs
Melissa says
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.
Anand says
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..
AshleeAnderson says
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.
Anna says
Thanks, Ashlee! Book in a Box sounds a little bit familiar. I’ll have to check into them further, it sounds great!