Video Caption Auditor Expert
We're looking for detail-oriented annotators to join a short-term, fast-moving project reviewing captions on egocentric (first-person) video — footage recorded from a head-mounted camera showing someone's hands performing everyday tasks like cooking, cleaning or crafting. You'll…
- Field
- Finance & accounting
- Where
- Remote (worldwide)
- Commitment
- hourly
- Hours
- up to 30/week
- Openings
- 25
- Posted
- today
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How this pay compares
At $25/hr (the midpoint of $20 to $30), this role pays more than 1% of the 175 open finance & accounting roles with a listed pay range, below the median of $85.
Among platforms with 10 or more priced finance & accounting roles, micro1 has the highest median ($90/hr across 23 roles) and Alignerr the lowest ($73/hr across 35).
Mercor roles that closed since late October stayed listed a median of 39 days (136 roles). Mercor posted this one today.
Computed from 2,746 open roles we track across Mercor, micro1, Handshake AI, Alignerr, Appen and OpenTrain AI, refreshed daily. Midpoints of listed ranges; “up to” ceilings are left out of medians.
What you would earn at this rate
Per week, before tax
$750
Per month, if the work is steady
$3,250
- Tax
- Contract pay arrives with no tax withheld. A US contractor at this rate and these hours would set aside about $822 a month for self-employment tax plus federal income tax at the 12% bracket (25%, before state tax). Outside the US, your own country's rules apply.
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Open finance & accounting roles on each platform
The same kind of work, priced on every platform we track, with the best-paid open role on each.
| Platform | Open | Median | Best-paid open role |
|---|---|---|---|
| micro1 | 23 | $90/hr | Domain Researcher, Finance$400k-800k/yr |
| OpenTrain AI | 93 | $90/hr | Finance Professional$245-280/hr |
| Mercorthis role | 28 | $90/hr | Pharma Commercial Forecasting Expert — Launch Curves$130-210/hr |
| Alignerr | 35 | $73/hr | Accounting Specialist — Excel Dataset Creation$40-150/hr |
| Handshake AI | 26 | up to $83/hr | Investment BankersUp to $175/hr |
“Up to” rows list only ceilings, so their median is a maximum, not comparable with the range midpoints above them.
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We're looking for detail-oriented annotators to join a short-term, fast-moving project reviewing captions on egocentric (first-person) video — footage recorded from a head-mounted camera showing someone's hands performing everyday tasks like cooking, cleaning or crafting. You'll audit whether a written caption accurately describes what happens in a short video segment, and give each caption a clear verdict. The project is already underway, so we're prioritising people who can start quickly.
What You'll Do
For each video segment and its caption, you'll decide:
- Approve — the caption accurately describes the action
- Reject — the caption has an error, rated Major or Minor, with the reason(s), for example:
- Wrong main verb (e.g. "wring" when the person is rubbing)
- A main action that is added, missing or out of order
- Wrong object or tool, or the wrong / swapped hand (left vs. right)
- Exclude — the footage itself is unusable (corrupted, badly mounted camera, broken segment boundaries)
- You'll follow a detailed written guideline with clear rules and examples, and judge only what is visible in each segment.
Who We're Looking For
- Excellent attention to detail and patience for careful, repetitive visual review
- Reliable left/right reasoning from the camera wearer's point of view
- Strong English reading comprehension and a precise sense of word meaning (e.g. the difference between "wipe", "rub" and "scrub")
- Ability to learn a detailed guideline quickly and apply it consistently
- Good judgment on ambiguous cases
- Nice to have: prior experience in video annotation, data labelling, content moderation, QA, or AI training/evaluation work.
Why Join Us?
- Contribute to Cutting-Edge AI Development: Play a direct role in improving how advanced AI models understand and interpret real-world human actions through first-person video.
- Flexible, Remote Work: Work from anywhere while contributing to a structured, high-impact AI annotation project.
- Clear Guidelines and Expectations: Benefit from detailed instructions, practical examples, and well-defined evaluation criteria to help you deliver high-quality work.
- Apply Your Attention to Detail: Put your observational skills, language comprehension, and critical thinking to work on meaningful AI evaluation tasks.
- Opportunity for Future Projects: Strong performance may open doors to additional AI training, annotation, and evaluation opportunities.
- Quick Onboarding: Join an active project with an accelerated onboarding process, allowing qualified candidates to begin contributing promptly.
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Full Mercor profile: watch-outs and the public record →Pay history
Mercor has listed this role at $20-30/hr since Nov 11, 2026 with no change.
Across Mercor's finance & accounting roles, the median listed pay was $85/hr on Nov 1, 2026 (24 roles) and is $90/hr as of Nov 11, 2026 (25 roles).
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