Remote work is crowded now, and a lot of it is not what it looks like. Many jobs wearing the remote label come with asterisks: required in-office days, sudden policy reversals, or hiring freezes the moment the market shifts. The roles that sound exciting tend to be the most competitive, the most likely to get restructured, and the first to attract hundreds of applicants for one opening.
The boring remote jobs are different. Utilization review. Claims appeals. Compliance checklists. Identity access audits. EHR support tickets. Contract tracking. Healthcare paperwork nobody finds interesting and everyone still needs done correctly.
These 18 roles pay $80,000 or more, work almost entirely from home, and hire on a rolling basis because the demand behind them is structural. Healthcare organizations must review care decisions or lose payment. Financial companies must follow anti-money-laundering rules or face regulators. Businesses must track vendor risk or absorb the consequences when something breaks. None of that softens in a downturn, and none of it is easy to hand off to software that cannot read between the lines of a medical record or decide whether a suspicious transaction is actually suspicious.
If you want remote work that is genuinely available and built to hold up over time, this is where to look.
1. Utilization review nurse
A utilization review nurse reads medical records and decides whether care meets the rules for coverage. You may review hospital stays, surgeries, tests, rehab, or home health care. The work is repetitive, quiet, and heavy on documentation. That is exactly why many people like it after years of bedside stress.
Average pay is about $90,353 per year. Many roles are remote because the work is done through charts, payer systems, phone calls, and secure messages. You usually need an active RN license, clinical experience, and comfort reading long notes without zoning out.
This job stays in demand because healthcare costs are watched closely, and every plan needs licensed people who can review care decisions. Software can flag simple cases, but it cannot fully replace a nurse who understands patient risk, medical necessity, and what can go wrong when care is denied too fast.
2. Clinical documentation improvement specialist
A clinical documentation improvement specialist checks patient charts for missing, vague, or unclear details. You are not writing pretty copy. You are making sure records explain what happened, why it mattered, and how sick the patient really was. It is the kind of job where one missing phrase can affect billing, quality scores, or care tracking.
Average pay is about $87,790 per year. Many jobs are remote because the work sits inside electronic health records. Hospitals, health systems, consulting firms, and insurers hire for it. A common path is RN, medical coding, health information, or inpatient documentation experience.
This is boring in a very specific way: lots of chart review, rules, queries, and follow-up. But it is not easy to replace. The role depends on clinical judgment, coding rules, and tactful communication with providers who do not have time for sloppy questions.
3. Clinical appeals nurse
A clinical appeals nurse reviews denied claims and writes or supports appeals when care was not approved. You look at the patient’s record, the plan rules, medical guidelines, and the reason for denial. Then you help make the case for why the care was needed. It is desk work, but it still uses real nursing judgment.
Average pay is about $91,170 per year. Remote roles are common with insurers, hospitals, managed care companies, and revenue cycle teams. Most employers want an RN license, several years of clinical experience, and the patience to read dense policy language without rushing.
The demand is steady because denials are not going away. Health plans, hospitals, and patients all need people who can sort through the mess. Automation may help organize records, but appeals still need a licensed person who can connect the medical facts to the rules and explain the case clearly.
4. Clinical data abstractor
A clinical data abstractor pulls exact facts from medical charts and enters them into registries, quality systems, or reporting tools. You may track surgery outcomes, cancer care, heart procedures, infections, or readmissions. It is quiet work, and it can feel like digging through digital file cabinets all day.
Average pay is about $87,443 per year. Remote jobs show up with hospitals, research groups, registry vendors, and quality improvement teams. Some roles want nursing experience, while others accept health information, coding, or registry experience.
This work sticks around because healthcare organizations must report accurate data for quality ratings, payments, research, and compliance. A tool can help find possible details, but someone still has to know whether the chart actually supports the answer. If you like rules, quiet, and precision, this is boring in the best possible way.
5. EHR application analyst
An EHR application analyst helps keep electronic health record systems working. You may update templates, fix tickets, test changes, manage user requests, and help clinics or hospital departments get the screens they need. It is not flashy tech work. It is a long stream of “why is this field broken?” and “can we change this workflow?”
Average pay is about $89,503 per year. Many jobs are remote or mostly remote because the systems are cloud-based and support work happens through tickets, meetings, and test environments. Healthcare experience helps, especially if you have worked with scheduling, billing, nursing, pharmacy, or clinical workflows.
Demand is solid because hospitals and clinics run on these systems now. They need people who understand both software settings and real healthcare work. This is harder to automate than it looks because every small change can affect doctors, nurses, billing teams, patients, and compliance rules.
6. Risk adjustment coder
A risk adjustment coder reviews medical records to make sure chronic conditions and patient complexity are captured correctly. This is not basic data entry. You are checking whether diagnoses are supported by the chart, whether they meet coding rules, and whether the record tells the full story for Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, or other risk-based plans.
Average pay is about $95,499 per year. Many roles are remote because the work happens in secure chart systems. Employers often want coding certification, strong ICD-10 knowledge, and experience with HCC coding or audits.
This job is boring because the work is rules on rules on rules. That is also why it has staying power. Healthcare payment models keep getting more complex, and plans need accurate records. Software can suggest codes, but the safer jobs are with people who can audit, question, and defend what the chart really supports.
7. BSA officer
A BSA officer helps banks and financial companies follow anti-money-laundering rules. The work involves reviewing suspicious activity processes, checking reports, training staff, updating procedures, and making sure the company is ready for exams. It is not dramatic detective work most days. It is spreadsheets, alerts, memos, and deadlines.
Average pay is about $90,003 per year. Many roles can be remote or hybrid, especially at online banks, fintech companies, credit unions, payment firms, and compliance vendors. People often move into it from bank operations, fraud, compliance, audit, or risk roles.
The job has staying power because financial rules are not optional. Companies need human judgment when transactions look strange, customers change behavior, or examiners ask hard questions. Software can flag patterns, but a person still has to decide what deserves review and how to document it without creating a bigger problem.
8. Vendor risk analyst
A vendor risk analyst reviews outside companies that provide software, billing, payroll, call centers, cloud tools, data services, and other support. You check whether vendors are secure, reliable, insured, compliant, and worth the risk. It sounds dry because it is. Much of the job is questionnaires, evidence requests, follow-ups, and risk ratings.
Average pay is about $93,681 per year. Remote work is common because vendors, documents, and review meetings are usually online. Banks, health systems, insurers, tech firms, retailers, and large employers all need this work.
This field keeps growing because companies rely on outside vendors for almost everything. When a vendor has a breach, outage, or compliance failure, the hiring company can still take the hit. That makes this job more than box-checking. You need judgment, persistence, and the nerve to ask boring questions until someone gives a real answer.
9. Privacy analyst
A privacy analyst helps protect personal information. You may review data requests, investigate possible privacy incidents, update notices, track training, and check whether teams are collecting or sharing information the right way. Healthcare, finance, education, retail, and tech companies all deal with private data, and most of them have more of it than they can comfortably manage.
Average pay is about $82,131 per year. Many jobs are remote because the work is policy review, ticket handling, incident tracking, vendor checks, and meetings. A background in compliance, healthcare, legal operations, records, risk, or IT can help.
This job is boring because it lives in forms, laws, logs, and approvals. It is also sticky because privacy mistakes can be expensive and public. Tools can scan systems, but someone still has to decide whether a request is valid, whether an incident is reportable, and how to explain the rules to people who just want to get their work done.
10. Cybersecurity GRC analyst
A cybersecurity GRC analyst works on governance, risk, and compliance. That means policies, audits, evidence collection, control testing, risk registers, and security questionnaires. It is the less glamorous side of cybersecurity. You are not usually chasing hackers. You are proving that systems have rules, owners, reviews, and records.
Average pay is about $99,400 per year. Remote jobs are common because the work is documentation-heavy and spread across cloud tools, meetings, and audit platforms. A good path in is IT support, security operations, compliance, internal audit, or vendor risk.
This role has strong demand because companies must answer security questions from customers, regulators, insurers, and boards. Automation can collect screenshots or draft control language, but it cannot own the risk. Someone still has to understand the business, push teams for proof, and say when a control is weak.
11. IAM analyst
An IAM analyst works on identity and access management. In plain English, you help control who can get into which systems. You may review access requests, clean up permissions, test login controls, handle audits, and help remove access when people leave or change jobs. It is repetitive, but important.
Average pay is about $80,159 per year. Remote work is common because most access systems are managed online. Employers include banks, hospitals, tech companies, universities, insurance companies, and any large business with sensitive systems.
This job is not easily replaced because access decisions can carry real risk. Give too much access and you create a security problem. Block the wrong person and you stop work. The role rewards people who are careful, patient, and willing to follow boring approval trails until the permissions make sense.
12. IT compliance analyst
An IT compliance analyst checks whether technology teams are following required controls. You may gather audit evidence, track security exceptions, review policies, test access controls, and help teams prepare for customer or regulator reviews. It is not creative work. It is proof, screenshots, tickets, dates, owners, and follow-up.
Average pay is about $79,566 per year, and many mid-level roles sit just over the $80k line. Remote jobs are common at software companies, health firms, finance companies, government contractors, and consulting teams. Experience in IT support, security, audit, or risk can lead into it.
The work stays steady because companies keep adding systems, vendors, and security promises. Someone has to prove those promises are real. Software can organize evidence, but it cannot fully replace a person who knows when a control is missing, stale, or just written nicely but not actually working.
13. HRIS analyst
An HRIS analyst manages human resources systems used for payroll data, benefits, job changes, employee records, reporting, and permissions. You may fix system issues, build reports, test changes, clean up data, and help HR teams stop breaking their own workflows. It is quiet problem-solving with a lot of tickets.
Average pay is about $98,708 per year. Many HRIS jobs are remote because the work is done inside platforms like Workday, UKG, ADP, Oracle, or other HR systems. People often move in from payroll operations, benefits, HR coordination, reporting, or system admin work.
This role is useful because every company with employees has messy people data. Names change. Managers move. Benefits rules update. Access breaks. Reports are wrong. Automation can help with simple tasks, but companies still need humans who understand the system, the process, and the fallout when employee data is wrong.
14. Senior benefits analyst
A senior benefits analyst helps run health insurance, retirement plans, leave programs, wellness benefits, and vendor files. You may review plan rules, test open enrollment systems, answer tricky escalations, audit invoices, and work with brokers or vendors. It is not exciting unless you enjoy finding a benefits error before it becomes a payroll disaster.
Average pay is about $95,000 per year. Remote roles are common with large employers, benefits administrators, insurers, and consulting firms. A background in HR, benefits coordination, leave administration, payroll support, or vendor management can lead here.
The job is stable because benefits are expensive, regulated, and personal. Employees notice fast when coverage, leave, or deductions are wrong. Employers need people who can read plan documents, deal with vendors, protect private information, and explain confusing rules without making a bad day worse.
15. Salesforce administrator
A Salesforce administrator keeps a company’s customer system usable. You may create fields, fix user issues, build reports, clean data, manage permissions, test updates, and help teams stop turning the database into a junk drawer. It is less about big ideas and more about steady system care.
Average pay is about $81,537 per year. Many roles are remote because the platform is cloud-based and support happens through tickets, video calls, and change requests. A common path is to learn the platform, earn the admin certification, and build experience through operations, support, or nonprofit projects.
This job is boring because most days are reports, permissions, workflows, and “why can’t I see this account?” But companies depend on these systems for sales, service, renewals, and customer records. Automation can help with setup, but someone still has to understand the business rules and keep the system from becoming expensive chaos.
16. ERP support analyst
An ERP support analyst helps maintain the software companies use for orders, inventory, purchasing, billing, manufacturing, or operations. You may troubleshoot tickets, test system updates, document workflows, and work with users who swear the system was fine yesterday. It is detailed, slow, and full of process maps.
Average pay is about $93,408 per year. Remote and hybrid roles are common because many ERP systems are cloud-based. Employers include manufacturers, distributors, healthcare companies, retailers, logistics firms, and software consulting teams.
This work is steady because companies cannot casually replace the systems that run their money, orders, supply chains, and inventory. The job is not safe because it is exciting. It is safe because mistakes are expensive. Someone has to understand both the software and the messy human process behind it.
17. Contracts administrator
A contracts administrator manages contract files, renewal dates, approvals, changes, signatures, and obligations. You may support sales contracts, vendor agreements, government contracts, software renewals, service agreements, or healthcare contracts. It is not courtroom drama. It is tracking details so nobody misses a deadline or agrees to something risky.
Average pay is about $99,171 per year. Many roles are remote because contract work is handled through document systems, email, approval platforms, and video calls. People often move up from contract coordinator, procurement, legal operations, sales operations, or vendor management work.
This role lasts because businesses keep signing agreements, renewing services, and changing terms. Software can route documents and flag dates, but it cannot always tell when a clause creates a real business problem. Careful people who can read closely and follow up without drama are valuable here.
18. Regulatory affairs specialist
A regulatory affairs specialist helps companies follow rules for products like medical devices, drugs, diagnostics, food, cosmetics, or health-related software. You may prepare submissions, track labeling changes, maintain product files, answer agency questions, and make sure teams do not promise things the product is not cleared to do.
Average pay is about $80,112 per year. Many roles are remote or hybrid because the work is document-heavy. Employers include medical device companies, pharmaceutical companies, labs, contract research firms, and manufacturers.
This is boring work with real consequences. The rules are dense, the documents are picky, and the review cycles can feel endless. But regulated companies need people who can keep products moving without creating legal or safety problems. Tools can help format and track documents, but judgment still matters when a product, label, or claim could trigger a serious issue.
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