Big governments have conspired with Uber and Lyft to appease drivers with pay schemes that appear like they are getting more than before, but are actually not.
In every State in the United States rideshare drivers are earning LESS than their respective states minimum wage after costs per REAL hour worked.
Uber sold this cheaper taxi option to governments around the world and together they have been committing an elaborate obfuscation plan that intentionally underpays drivers.
Massachusetts
Official floor: about $33/hr engaged time (state AG settlement)
Likely real profit after costs: ≈ $8-12/hr.
State minimum wage: $15.00/hr.
New York City
Official floor: roughly $1.36/mi + $0.58/min engaged (TLC rules) ≈ $26-28/hr gross engaged.
Drivers must also carry their own commercial insurance,
Likely profit after costs: ≈ $5-10/hr.
State minimum wage: $16.78/hr.
Minnesota – Twin Cities
Official floor: $1.28/mi + $0.31/min with per-trip minimum.
Likely profit after costs: ≈ $7-11/hr.
State minimum wage: $10.59/hr
California (Prop 22 statewide)
Official floor: 120 % of local minimum wage + $0.30/mi
Likely profit after costs: ≈ $3-8/hr
State minimum wage: $16.00/hr
Washington State
Official floor: $1.31/mi + $0.38/min or $5.17 min
Likely profit after costs: ≈ $8-13/hr.
State minimum wage: $16.28/hr
Seattle
Official floor: $1.55/mi + $0.66/min or $5.62/trip min.
Likely profit after costs: ≈ $9-14/hr.
State minimum wage: $16.28/hr.
Elsewhere in the U.S.
Whatever Uber/Lyft want to pay
Usually $4-8/hr after costs.
Do you see a pattern here folks?
How the REAL time was calculated:
Engaged miles time + deadhead time.
Not for time camping with ones app on obviously, but if one factors that time in as well it just makes sense to utilize ones time better doing something else much more productive.
However going by the pay schemes developed it's obvious the creators are engaged in an elaborate scheme to keep drivers driving cheap and the governments are in on it.
Obviously they didn't factor AI use becoming so commonplace that unveiled their elaborate mathematical deceptions.
So the government is out to f you just like Uber and Lyft are. Add the cheap arse customers who largely don't tip (Thank you Travis you asshat) and drivers just don't stand a chance EXCEPT NOT TO PLAY.
Why 50-70% quit Uber and Lyft annually.
So if you don't want to lose, don't want to be nagged with constant notifications to open your app and go online, promising you'll make extra money, like a casino luring people in, then don't start. Don't install these gimmicky ripoff apps.
The 4.5 years I did Uber full time, a whopping 18 hours nearly every day, I could have made in HALF the time working a minimum wage job someplace instead.
But NO! I liked being my own boss, what a FOOL I was.
A fool and his money are soon parted. Has so much truth to it.
In every State in the United States rideshare drivers are earning LESS than their respective states minimum wage after costs per REAL hour worked.
Uber sold this cheaper taxi option to governments around the world and together they have been committing an elaborate obfuscation plan that intentionally underpays drivers.
Massachusetts
Official floor: about $33/hr engaged time (state AG settlement)
Likely real profit after costs: ≈ $8-12/hr.
State minimum wage: $15.00/hr.
New York City
Official floor: roughly $1.36/mi + $0.58/min engaged (TLC rules) ≈ $26-28/hr gross engaged.
Drivers must also carry their own commercial insurance,
Likely profit after costs: ≈ $5-10/hr.
State minimum wage: $16.78/hr.
Minnesota – Twin Cities
Official floor: $1.28/mi + $0.31/min with per-trip minimum.
Likely profit after costs: ≈ $7-11/hr.
State minimum wage: $10.59/hr
California (Prop 22 statewide)
Official floor: 120 % of local minimum wage + $0.30/mi
Likely profit after costs: ≈ $3-8/hr
State minimum wage: $16.00/hr
Washington State
Official floor: $1.31/mi + $0.38/min or $5.17 min
Likely profit after costs: ≈ $8-13/hr.
State minimum wage: $16.28/hr
Seattle
Official floor: $1.55/mi + $0.66/min or $5.62/trip min.
Likely profit after costs: ≈ $9-14/hr.
State minimum wage: $16.28/hr.
Elsewhere in the U.S.
Whatever Uber/Lyft want to pay
Usually $4-8/hr after costs.
Do you see a pattern here folks?
How the REAL time was calculated:
Engaged miles time + deadhead time.
Not for time camping with ones app on obviously, but if one factors that time in as well it just makes sense to utilize ones time better doing something else much more productive.
However going by the pay schemes developed it's obvious the creators are engaged in an elaborate scheme to keep drivers driving cheap and the governments are in on it.
Obviously they didn't factor AI use becoming so commonplace that unveiled their elaborate mathematical deceptions.
So the government is out to f you just like Uber and Lyft are. Add the cheap arse customers who largely don't tip (Thank you Travis you asshat) and drivers just don't stand a chance EXCEPT NOT TO PLAY.
Why 50-70% quit Uber and Lyft annually.
So if you don't want to lose, don't want to be nagged with constant notifications to open your app and go online, promising you'll make extra money, like a casino luring people in, then don't start. Don't install these gimmicky ripoff apps.
The 4.5 years I did Uber full time, a whopping 18 hours nearly every day, I could have made in HALF the time working a minimum wage job someplace instead.
But NO! I liked being my own boss, what a FOOL I was.
A fool and his money are soon parted. Has so much truth to it.
