I been driving both Uber and Lyft in the Greater LA Market for about 3 years now and I'm looking for a cheaper and easier life because paying $2,000 rent for a 2 bedroom is getting pricey here. I see Orlando and Jacksonville as options since rent is cheap but how is ridehsaring pay? I do it full time 40-50 hours weekly earning around $1,300 not including bonuses which range from $50 to $395. Can you live comfortably in any of the mention cities and have enough to get by or not really? I been to both and most drivers I spoke to only drive weekends and make $200 bucks during nights so it doesn't help when it comes to advise.
You won't pull $1300 a week doing uber/lyft here. Not on any kind of reliable fashion. Between that and the "new surge" looking like it's going to spread prospects of doing uber/lyft here are bad with a grim future.
$400 might be possible on the weekend, but personally i suspect you need to drive 500 miles on a $50,000 SUV to pull those kind of numbers, in which case your expenses are pushing $200 to make $400.
You will put in much more miles to make less money compared to anywhere else. This area is rediculously spread out.
12125 high tech ave, Orlando
The double tree hotel by UCF. An area with high demand for uber.
10100 international drive Orlando
The double tree hotel by Sea world. Dead center of the tourist area.\
This fare isn't even a $20.00 payout for uberX after tolls, it it's almost 30 miles
these 2 addresses are 28.9 MILES away by car, and both are in Orlando, and are over 28 miles away. We aren't even to the areas that are really to the middle of nowhere either.
Less than $20 for a half hour drive {minus tolls}. That's what your really looking at doing uber/lyft. And that's a fare that is on the high end of normal that isn't even going to the middle of nowhere.
Add in bad traffic and it takes a half an hour longer and pays $2.20 more (not joking either)
The average fare pays out something like $5-6.00 for 20 minutes average time (acceptance to dropoff) plus time waiting for the ping. Anything over $10.00 is a rarity compared to the glut of min fares that are everywhere. $3.00 for 15 minutes worth of work minus expenses is a kick to the gonads, nothing more.
Yes rent is cheap, but so pay. Min wage here is $8.25 an hour. Min wage in Cali is $11.00 an hour.
My advice is to get a tipped job in the tourist areas. Honestly... i would try for waiter/bartender out at a restaurant near disney/universal studios. Really the tourist area stretches kinda between the two.
Really any min wage (that isn't DIRECTLY in the theme parks) is a huge step up compared to uber.
Working in the theme parks themselves.. those jobs virtually all suck big time.