Many of you are looking for work from home jobs that pay at minimum $10 an hour — or preferably more. This is yet another popular question I get from readers who are looking for home-based work, and it makes sense. Although you do save money in all kinds of ways by working from home, it's still hard for most people to get by on anything less than $10 an hour these days.
I've written about several work from home companies in the five years this blog has been online. While most of the companies I've covered pay per piece, per word, or per task, there are quite a few that pay hourly. Keep in mind that the majority of the hourly pay companies are phone jobs, so you're going to see a lot of those posted below.
If you want to earn more than $10 an hour doing something like freelance writing, transcription, or short tasks, your speed is what will get you there since these jobs usually don't pay hourly.
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Phone Jobs Paying $10 or More Per Hour
With many work from home customer service companies, the hourly rate will vary because they often have different clients for their workers to service. When that's the case, your rate of pay may be different just depending on which client you've been assigned to. Still, most of the companies below seem to consistently pay at least $10 hourly if not more, although in rare cases it may drop below that rate just depending on the client you're handling calls for.
2U – US only. This job involves handling tech and customer support for students and faculty who are using 2U's online, cloud-based platform for lessons. The rate of pay isn't listed on the site, but Glassdoor indicates that almost all of the jobs here pay over $40,000 yearly, so it's most likely a $10+ per hour job.
ABC Financial – US only. This job involves handling customer service for people with accounts at health clubs. The rate of pay is not listed on their site, but someone left a comment on my review of the company claiming they were offered $10.50 hourly.
Amazon – US only. Amazon usually pays at least $10 hourly for the home-based customer service positions, but this may vary a little depending on which state you live in.
American Express – US and possibly occasional openings in other countries. They have a few different home-based positions available from time to time. The exact rate should depend on your experience, but should be over $10 hourly in most cases.
APAC – US only, usually hiring in or near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Phoenix, AZ, Las Vegas, NV, and Humble, TX. The exact rate will depend on which of their clients you're servicing, but it's usually over $10 hourly.
Appen Butler Hill – Worldwide. The work from home search engine evaluation for this company may pay around $10 hourly.
Apple – US, maybe occasional openings in other countries. They hire people to work at home doing chat and phone support for their products. Pay rate is not listed, but rumored to be $14 hourly or more in most cases.
Arise – Arise offers more of a home business opportunity since they require that you incorporate and go through lots of training/certification that you have to pay for prior to servicing their clients, but once you start working you can expect to earn between $11 and $13 hourly in most cases.
Aspire Lifestyles – US only, occasionally hiring work from home concierges that must live in or near Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, or Las Vegas. The pay rate is not listed on the website for this job, but it may be between $11 and $13 hourly based on the research I've done.
Blooms Today – US only, hiring seasonally for work from home flower orders. If you work for them as an independent contractor, you make a flat $15 hourly. People who work from home as permanent employees (from what I understand not seasonal work) will make less but qualify for commission on sales they make.
Blue Zebra Appointment Setting – US and Canada. This is cold calling work from phone. The website for Blue Zebra claims their home-based workers can earn between $15 and $25 hourly based on experience and skill level.
