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Mercor

the only vendor that publishes what it pays, and the only one that lost its contractors' passports and biometrics.

$60-120/hr contractor bands#sourcing-credentialed-ex#lawyers#senior-engineers-at-rate

the best pay transparency in this category by a wide margin, and the worst documented harm to the people it pays.

mercor is the only vendor here that publishes rates at all: bands of roughly $60 to $120 an hour for specialised roles, with reporting citing over $2m paid daily across its network and 60 to 70% of top-line revenue passed to contractors. after seven vendors publishing nothing, that deserves credit, and it is why the entry isn't last.

the security record is the reason it is seventh. a 2026 supply-chain compromise of litellm, attributed to the lapsus$ group, exfiltrated roughly four terabytes of data reportedly including social security numbers, dates of birth, passports, biometric face and voice data and banking details. at least six to seven class actions followed, including gill v. mercor in the northern district of california filed 1 april 2026. a separate suit, cox v. mercor io corporation filed october 2025, alleges undisclosed monitoring software installed on contractors' personal computers without reimbursement.

the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.

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$60-120/hr contractor bands
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mercor.com
our verdict

the best pay transparency in this category by a wide margin, and the worst documented harm to the people it pays.

we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.

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