How much does a food delivery driver earn in the USA?
There are several major food delivery services in America - DoorDash, UberEats, GrubHub and the recently launched GoPuff. In order to start working in delivery, you need to download the application and register. Takes a few minutes - very simple! When registering, you must enter your personal data, SSN and pass verification against various criminal databases, etc.
Delivery can be done on foot, by bicycle, e-bike or car. Earnings depend on the number of orders delivered. Therefore, earnings are higher with a car due to the fact that you move around the city faster. It makes sense to work in several applications at once, since there are situations when there are no orders in DoorDash, and then you can catch an order through UberEats so as not to waste time.
Earnings consist of delivery fees from the company and tips from customers. Moreover, tips are often significantly higher than delivery fees. Yes, America has a big tipping culture; people here almost always leave tips. And very good ones. It happened that the waitress demanded a tip from me, and then cursed because I gave her less than she expected...
For one delivery, on average, they pay $3,5 and a $3,5 tip, that is, a total of $6-8. It’s realistic to make 3-4 deliveries per hour by car or electric bike. It turns out that you can earn $25-30 per hour. $250 per day, and $4500 per month. But you need to keep in mind that these are amounts before taxes - so you need to subtract another 20-30%. The costs of fuel, maintenance and depreciation of the vehicle are also not taken into account. There are not always profitable days, sometimes you can wait a long time for an order, but there are also good times when there are a lot of orders and you can get a big tip.
In general, you can make money on delivery. In my opinion, the ideal option is to work on an electric bike. The convenient thing is that you can work at any time convenient for yourself, use it as a part-time job. I also want to say a little about working from someone else’s account. In chats there are often advertisements about the sale of accounts for delivery work. I do not recommend contacting these people. After all, this is illegal and can lead to bad consequences. Someone else's account will be registered using the data of another person. Accordingly, at the end of the year he will have to pay taxes for you, and when he finds out that it turns out that he worked on delivery, he will definitely be indignant. It may lead to a police report and proceedings. Finding you will not be difficult, because you give the application access to geolocation and withdraw money to your bank card.
Source: Telegram channel “Lukova & Lyubimov in USA”
