Consulting and Strategy AI Jobs: Live Rates
Every figure on this page is read from 11 live listings on this board, 9 of which publish a rate. Updated 29 September 2026. See the full pay dataset.
Consultants are hired to shape the business reasoning tasks used to train frontier models.
What these roles pay
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Median advertised rate | $125/hr |
| Range across listings | $60 to $350/hr |
| Listings with a published rate | 9 of 11 |
Who is hiring
- Mercor: 6 live roles
- micro1: 3 live roles
- Turing: 2 live roles
Where you can work from
These listings are open to applicants in 60 countries. The most represented are United States, Algeria, Argentina, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh. Check your own country with the eligibility checker.
What the work actually involves
Taken from the live listings themselves:
- About Turing Turing is one of the world’s fastest-growing AI companies, accelerating the advancement and deployment of powerful AI systems.
- Role Overview Consultants will review, evaluate, and refine prompts and PowerPoint presentations to produce accurate, high-quality enterprise data for clients.
- About Turing: Based in San Francisco, California, Turing is the world's leading research accelerator for frontier AI labs and a trusted partner for global enterprises deploying advanced AI systems.
- Role Overview: We are seeking experienced Electrical Engineers to design, solve, and review simulation-led engineering tasks used to train and evaluate advanced AI models.
Typical responsibilities
Pulled from the live listings in this category:
- Establish evaluation standards: Define clear criteria for when a performance has been captured well, both in emotional resonance and physical fidelity, and point out where current evaluations fall short.
- Curate benchmarks: Identify strong examples of performances that are easy to capture and ones that are genuinely hard, so the model has meaningful tests to measure against.
- Shape the evaluation pool: Help define the right profile, expertise mix, and rubric for the human reviewers who assess outputs at scale.
- Collaborate with other experts: Work alongside fellow subject-matter experts to keep evaluations consistent and accurate.
- Evaluate AI model responses to business strategy and consulting-style problems
- Write high-quality prompts, model answers, and detailed feedback
What employers ask for
- 4+ years as a hands-on character animator, with human or character _performance_ as your core craft.
- Verifiable credits on 2 or more feature films, animated features, or AAA game cinematics at recognized studios.
- Direct experience with facial animation and/or performance capture, facial keyframe work, motion-capture solving, cleanup or motion editing, or character technical design of facial and performance rigs.
- A meticulous eye for micro-expressions, emotional beats, and the subtleties that make a human performance feel authentic.
- AI proficiency: familiarity with AI tools and workflows, including the ability to generate your own visual samples for testing and comparison.
- The ability to translate complex visual details into clear, precise language that can be captured in data captions and evaluation templates.
How the pay is spread
Half of the listings with a published rate fall between $90 and $187 an hour. The bottom of the range is $60 and the top is $350. Rate depends far more on credentials and specialism than on which platform you use.
Which platform to start with
Mercor currently lists the most roles in this category (6 of 11). Platforms differ mainly in eligibility and how they screen, not in the kind of work. See which platforms hire in your country before you spend time on applications.
How to apply
Applications are completed on the hiring platform, not on this site. Most of these platforms screen with a short qualification step before routing you to paid work, so a complete profile matters more than a long cover letter. Applying is free and none of these platforms charge a fee to start.
Live consulting and strategy ai jobs roles
- Business Management Consultant via Turing
- CAD & Simulation Consultant | Engineering Design and Simulation, Aerospace / Mechanical / Electrical Engineering via Turing
- Character and Facial Animation Consultant via Mercor · $60-$90/hr
- Consultant, Aesthetics Projects via Mercor · $80-$100/hr
- Management Consultant Talent Network via Mercor · $60-$100/hr
- Management Consultant Talent Network via Mercor · $100-$150/hr
- Management Consulting Expert via Mercor · $90-$120/hr
- AI Consulting Domain Expert via micro1 · $100-$200/hr
- Management Consultant via micro1 · $245-$280/hr
- Management Consulting Expert via micro1 · $150-$350/hr
- Payer & Market Access Expert, Gross-to-Net & Formulary Strategy via Mercor · $175-$200/hr