Hello fellow antiwokers 🙂
I'm currently writing a paper to present at a social forum in my country next Saturday, and I'm looking to beef up my statistics, and do some cross country comparisons.
I'd be interested in knowing roughly the average earnings of a delivery driver or a personal driver on the various platforms such as Uber Bolt Lyft Glovo Takeaway Door dash FoodPanda or whatever others exist, in different countries.
It would be good to have the gross earnings, what you have to pay to the platform, the fixed costs (gas, maintenance, health insurance, taxes, etc.) and if possible how much does your housing and food costs you.
You can post your answers in local currency, or dollars, euros or pounds.
For example, in Romania, the average hourly earning is 5 euros, or 50 euros per day at 10 hours, or 300 euros in a 6-day week, but 50% of it goes into fixed costs: delivery workers and drivers pay an intermediary firm (10% commission + 35 euros tax) to hire them because the platforms themselves don't hire people directly (even if they have the self-enterprise status), then they have to pay for gas+maintenance (35 euro) and usually rent their scooter (50 euros/week) or car (100euro/week).
On average, they're left with 600 euros per months which is very respectable i. Romania but it's only compared with the very bad salaries (minimum wage is 400 euros), and rent is usually 250-300 euros per month. The food here costs almost the same as in Western Europe, so everyone is struggling.
If you have any interesting stories to share or know other posts that discuss this, please don't hesitate to put the link in your answers.
Thanks a million for your help!