One platform's terms

Mercor referral: 20% of what your referral earns, capped

Updated 2026-10-08

Mercor is one of two platforms read that pay a share of the referred person's earnings rather than a fixed sum.

What it pays

Mercor says that once your referral begins billable work, you earn 20% of what they earn, counting hourly pay and bonuses.

The cap and the payout days

On hourly contracts the cap is 4x the hourly rate of the referred person's first accepted offer. Referral earnings are released twice a week, on Wednesdays and Fridays at 12:00 PM PST.

Against the others

Handshake AI is the only other platform read that pays a share: 10% of the referred contractor's rate on their first project, capped at 40 hours per referral.

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Sources

This site's own datasets, every figure quoted from its source and dated:

What AI training platforms pay for referring a contributor: 4 of 6 AI training platforms whose own pages we read pay a flat amount for referring a contributor rather than a share of their earnings, read 8 October 2026.
Company data referral fee (5 figures): 3 of the 5 company-introduction programmes we read publish a fee on their own pages, read 28 October 2026.
The Referral Income Tax Thresholds carries 7 published figures read from 3 sources' own pages, from 3.65 to 12,570 GBP, read 31 October 2026.

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