Application Users - Excel on macOS - Professionals

What you'll do

Mercor wants experienced spreadsheet users who work in Excel for Mac: people doing financial models, formulas, pivot tables and charts as part of their job. The named audience is financial analysts, accountants, and operations and business analysts.

Excel on macOS has a different ribbon layout, different keyboard shortcuts and a few feature gaps compared with Windows Excel, so a Windows-trained analyst who occasionally opens a Mac is not really the profile; the listing wants someone for whom Mac Excel is the everyday tool.

What the work involves is not described. The ad asks for Excel on your own Mac, openable today, plus a high-resolution screen capture setup. As with the rest of Mercor's "Application Users" family, the likely purpose is capturing real spreadsheet workflows for training AI agents that operate office software, but the ad does not say so. Confirm at screening.

Who fits

• Excel installed on your own Mac running macOS, ready today. Mercor provides no Microsoft 365 licence, VM or hardware
• Real-world spreadsheet work: modelling, formulas, pivots, charting
• Screenshots above 2.5 megapixels. The ad names the MacBook Pro 14" and 16" built-in displays as qualifying; otherwise one high-resolution external monitor or two 1080p-plus monitors spanned together

No degree, certification, years or country requirement is published.

What it pays

$60–70 per hour, the top band of the application-user family and the same as the Word (macOS) and PowerPoint (Windows) listings. For a finance or ops professional, that is a solid freelance rate for skills already in daily use.

Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise, based on services rendered.

Worth knowing

Good:

• Top pay tier for a mainstream skill
• A personal Microsoft 365 subscription is cheap compared with the specialist licences other listings demand
• Remote and self-scheduled, weekly pay published

Less good:

• Restricted to the Mac version, which narrows who qualifies
• No hires were shown on the listing when we read it, so there is no signal of work volume
• Tasks, hours and duration are not described; projects can be extended, shortened or ended early
• H-1B and STEM OPT candidates excluded; independent contractor terms

About this listing

A Mercor remote hourly contract, read on 24 September 2026. Pay, platform, screen requirement, payment terms and visa limitation are the ad's own. Mercor states no confidential or proprietary information from any employer or client is involved, so client workbooks stay closed. See Mercor.