Online jobs are a nice way to make some extra cash, to make money part-time, but they never pay $15/hour. Is that what you are thinking reading the title of this post, right?

What you will find quite surprising, it’s that not only jobs that pay $15 an hour exist, but they also don’t require you to be a highly talented or experienced worker.

I found several companies that offer online jobs and pay very well. I hope you can find something interesting for you and will successfully apply for a new job!

Scribie

This company offers only freelance transcriber jobs with flexible hours. The rate of pay is $5 to $20 per audio hour, i.e., $0.5 to $2 for a 6-minute audio file. If you have excellent typing skills and have no problem with comprehension of American/British/Australian/Indian accents, you should definitely give it a try!

Check details and apply for jobs on Scribie here.

Emoderation

Another online moderation company which hires work at home moderators to manage social media profiles. You don’t need to have any experience, but it helps to be knowledgeable about social media like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest. You will also be moderating the forums. The positions are open worldwide. The pay is $15 per hour.

Check details and apply for jobs on Emoderation.

Wonder

If you are good in research, try to apply for jobs on Wonder Researcher. This company recruits online researchers for doing general research, paying $15-25/hour depending on the topic of research and on how fast you complete the task. You’ll be asked to pass an assessment to join the team of researchers (don’t worry, it’s just 4 questions and will take you max 10 min), within the next 7 days indicating whether you’ve been advanced to the next stage of the process.

Check details and apply for jobs on Wonder here.

Worldwide 101

This company hires Virtual Assistants – executive assistants, as well as marketing & social media specialists, they pay $18 per hour. If you qualify for their positions, they will contact you within 14 days and then you’ll have to pass 2 video interviews, they will check your background and do a psychometric test to be later used for the ideal match of a client for you.

Check details and apply for jobs on Worldwide 101.

Leapforce

A crowdsourcing company recruiting people around the world for part-time online jobs like internet assessor, search engine evaluator. They open positions in different countries from time to time, so you need to check their openings to see if there is something available in your country. Most of the web research positions are for maximum 20 hours per week and the hours are flexible, you can choose to work even in the night if you want to. The pay is around $12-$15 per hours for the US. The salary varies with different countries.

Check details and apply for jobs on Leapforce.

LionBridge

This company offers similar positions, for example, Internet Ads Assessor, Personalized Internet Assessor, Online Maps Specialist, etc.

Check details and apply for jobs on LionBridge.

Appen

Appen has multiple positions like search engine evaluators, social media evaluators and much more. None of these jobs require any prior experience. You will have to follow guidelines and rate the web pages. They currently have many positions available on their website. The pay for the US is $15/hour, and it differs according to different countries.

Check details and apply for jobs in your country on Appen.

Online Tutor Jobs from Home

Ever heard about online education? It might seem impossible, but some people even graduated with MSc degrees from trustworthy Universities, making courses completely online. One of them is me, actually 🙂

Chegg

So online tutoring and education is a very much real thing nowadays, and it pays well. Chegg is one of the companies that hires tutors from various fields, such as economics, chemistry, biology, zoology, calculus, astrophysics and many others. Tutors are paid about $20/hour and receive the money on a weekly basis.

A tutoring company which hires online tutors. You can teach many subjects like Astrophysics, Biology, Zoology, Calculus and much more. The pay starts at $20/hour and will be deposited in your account every week. This position does require some experience in the subject you are teaching.

Check details and apply for jobs on Chegg

Tutorme

Here is another company that offers $18/ hour for tutors globally. You can teach in over 300 subjects, from Calculus, to Python, to Piano and everything in between.

Check details and apply for jobs on Tutorme

Palfish

This is an app through which you can teach English to Chinese students if you are a native Eng speaker. No other qualification is needed as you have to teach conversational English. The app allows you to use iOS or Android devices and you can set your hourly rate at $15 or higher and will be paid per minute of talk time. Payments are made once a month via Paypal.

Check details and apply for jobs on Palfish

Service800

This company hires customer service representatives to work from home and accept applicants from Asia, Europe, North America, South America and some selected states in the US. Hourly pay for this is around $12 per hour.

Check details and apply for jobs on Service800

Rev

One of the most known companies offering work to captioners is Rev. You will work for them as a freelancer and receive payments via PayPal weekly. You can make around $50 per day, there is no minimum or maximum because it depends on your efficiency and on the workflow on each particular day.

Check details and apply for jobs on Rev

These are some of the remote jobs which pay around $15 and some of them even more. Start applying and find something that works for your schedule and expectations the best!

If you are looking for a job which gives you an opportunity to grow from $15 to much, much more per hour, maybe you would be interested in starting a blog as a side-hustle, like I did. My blog made $3178 in the first 6 months, and I’ll make sure that my income grows steadily.

In case you were interested, how much time and investment it takes to start a blog, here is my easy step-by-step guide to start your own money-making blog within 10-15 minutes. What I did, I started blogging as a side hustle, but I intend to make it my full-time job as soon as my blogging income can substitute my 9-5 job salary.