@@LadyOrion2012 and then it’s simple you explain I’ve already done it it’s not that difficult. I’ve had W2 jobs that I tried out and they all suck anymore. They expect you to work like a dog but they don’t wanna pay you. No thanks I’ll work when I want to be my own boss.
Did it for three years, it was the best time of my life. Now I’m back at a corporate hole and although my income is much steadier, I’m far less happy or free.
I still doordash in my time off. It's nice being able to doordash for an hour or 2 after work and make $20-60. People wanting wages and the like would make that impossible. Don't like being in control of your income? Don't do the work, you don't need to ruin it for the rest of us. I don't know your schedule, but keeping top dasher status is huge. I don't like working OT at my real job, but I do enjoy being able to go out during lunch on days off and making enough money to cover my expenses... THEN put all the taxes I expect to pay in a savings account to gain some interest.... instead of how most people seem to do of having high withholding and getting a 0% (or negative if you count inflation)return on your withholdings.
Yeah normal jobs don't always have overtime if u ask me it's not worth it. Most places the ppl are super unhappy and only stay bc they have to. So thank God for independent contractor jobs :) and you can do doordash and uber eats and not have to choose one over the other. I've seen videos of ppl doing that and it helps you make more money.
@@Dsnub718 salary employees are exempt from overtime. I don't get overtime now but my last job has a base salary but we had to put in hours and could get overtime.
@@Sportscout33 I can’t really teach you, you’d have to talk to someone. But if you get a 10-99 for taxes that’s where it’s applicable. You’ll need to talk to a CPA about what and how to write it off.
He meant he gets paid the same for each hour worked, like no overtime pay which is a higher rate per hour. It's ok, spend more time thinking it through next time instead of quickly commenting to ridicule someone.
Dude, you embarrassed yourself with your comment!! He GETS PAID the same, as in what his employer pays him. He MAKES MORE than his previous job because he makes tips that are not paid by the employer.
“Even though I’m making way more than my last job” is how he starts out that sentence. i’m losing hope in humanity. He means he makes the same *per hour* even if it goes over 40 hours a week.
Facts I’m in a small town so there are not a lot of miles and they don’t tip very well. Sometimes I make 12 and 17 deliveries in 6 hours and make about $100 to $120 and that’s on a good day 🥴
@@istandwithrussia8254 but that’s in a good day most of the time it be like 60 and 70 bucks and gas is too expensive cause just half of that goes towards expenses
Door dash is nice if you're saving for a purchase, or just want a little extra cash. For the time and hours and wear/tear you put on vehicle, I don't think it's worth doing full time. But, it's the best part time gig out there where you can make up your own hours! (My opinion)
Shit if I could make 9 grand in 45 days I could get a used car for 2 grand and use that just for deliveries all depends on how good you are with money for me to make 9 grand at a 20 dollar an hour job takes me 3 months not 45 days
Fun fact: in Hungary I made 132 dollars in 10 hours, with 40 deliveries cycling in the pouring rain. (With the bonuses and tips included) btw next day i have spent the day in bed. (I cycled more than 90 km-s) Normally I earn 44 dollars in 6 hours. The situation is really crap here. Oh and we pay 27% taxes after everything we buy. 😂
The base pay is garbage from the delivery apps, you depend on the tips by default, unless you take shitty low money orders under $7 every time for like 10 miles+ which is just a waste of time and money lmao
@@adityakhatri2413 exactly. I dont worry about tips because I only take good offers. So even if the tip is zero, I got a good base pay from Uber. People taking shit orders and expecting the customer to go back to their app after they ate and add extra.... are dumb.
@adityakhatri2413 then they drop your AR 😂😂😂no tip to bad. Get shot oh well. A tank of gas for an hourly pay of 3.75 nothing wrong. You made a 1 dollar an hour that you didn't have an hour ago.
How the hell do you brake my friend. Wrong choice of cars or bad driving habits. Toyota Corolla should be your only choice.. I put 125k/yr of my used $5k manual Toyota, dont need anything more than gas & oil chg..
Those jobs don’t hire for shit. I went to an interview for ua local 43 and after they got done bitching saying that in 10 years, 80% of their workforce will be retired. they told me they only hire 14 people a year, only in march, start out at 13 an hour, and you don’t even get paid for class room hours.
Where are those framing crew jobs at and do they accept total newbie? My husband would be happy to swing a hammer for $20 an hour instead of doing uber eats ever since the economy tanking made his small business finance degree useless.
#4: wear and tear on your vehicle! Being a mobile mechanic, if your car is a point a to b please dont do this kind of work unless you can do your own repairs yourself. From my experience, most of my customers who do these delivery jobs like this live in apartment complexes that do not allow for me to fix their cars in their lots. So that forces me to try to make deals with their apartment managers, yes I take that role on even though it's technically not my problem, to get a job done in a certain amount of time(max 4hrs-they needed a new motor and I had 4 hrs to remove their blown motor and install the new one*managed to get it done in 4hrs and 7mins* and the apartment complex had already called a tow truck to tow my customers car, she drove away in her car as the tow truck was pulling into the complex). Or if you have a mechanic that offers it, they pull up and load your car onto a car hauler and take it down the street, off the complex property, to fix your car(this does cost more because of the time it takes to bring a trailer, load your car on it and go to a close secondary location to fix said vehicle). Please if you do this kind of job, keep this in mind!!!!
Im 18 it just make sense that I do it at this age. I encourage to only use it until you develop a skill or use it when your in college. I plan on only using it until I get into the elevator union
The independant contractor is one of the main positives for uber eats😂. If you play it right you can write off your car, your fuel expenses, your phone bill, the miles you drove, your car insurance, a home office and so much other shit. I was an independant contractor for ayear i didnt pay a single penny in taxes and my return was still like 4k😂😂😂
I work for a government agency that pays people money when they retire or become disabled. Everyone thinks they're so smart not paying taxes until they find out they're not eligible for anything when they fall on hard times
You forgot to mention as an independent contractor you get approximately 59 cents a mile tax deduction for you expenses by the federal government, most of the time you end up paying zero in state and federal taxes!
I am from Australia, I never order UberEats, Deliveroo, Doordash or Menulog coz I am being charged more (it's cheaper to directly order exact same thing from the exact same restaurant), the restaurant is unhappy because these companies are taking 30-40% commission from restaurants (results in lower quality and quantity food) ,, food takes ages to arrive and is cold when it's delivered, lastly the guy/girl who delivered is earning less than 1/2 the minimum hourly wage. They appear so frustrated that they are probably spitting in the food. So stop being lazy, support your local business and walk to pick up your food. You save money, restaurant is making more money and it's a healthier lifestyle than picking up your spat on food from the door !!!
If I order door dash from a restaurant it’s way more expensive per meal than just getting it yourself. I only use these services if I am traveling and want quick food delivered to my motel room.
@@a552bcx idk about that. I called a sushi place by me one time to ask a question about their menu on door dash, becauae it was missing items compared to their normal menu. The guy asked if I'd pick it up instead of using door dash if he gave me a free sushi roll because they charge him a fee
@@ryan370 go pick it up yourself if you don't like the higher price. the total price is much higher because you got to pay for the delivery which pay the driver and whatever company that sets it up. there's no free lunch brother
Is like $10 an hour after expenses and wear and tear. Is not all rainbows. The the "60 online hours" that's only his driving time. He most like worked more than 80 hours for the $1500 on UberEats. Not hating, just reality. I do it on and off. Sometimes 0 hours a week. Sometimes 30 and sometimes 70 plus. What I like is the freedom and flexibility and basically no cap on how many hours you want to work a day. 12 "driving" hours on Uber. No limit on DoorDash. You need a 30 plus mpg vehicle that's worth less than 10K and preferably below 5K but still dependable. Yes, is hard to find them but they're out there.
You're really upset that the people actually working hard are a bit heated during a rush? 😂 I wouldn't be surprised if you wrote this comment after you were getting wound up over wait time. I watched this old dude get insanely upset because all the order was, was "nuggets." But then you look on the McDonald's screen in the kitchen and it's two kids' meals.. Surrounded by four more orders and a full drive thru. One lady was running in and out to do order pickups and when she came in exhausted to call out a lobby order, they laughed at her for being incoherent. Losers.
@@GuzzlingDuck you do realize that time is genuinely money in these kinds of jobs. your in a rush to make a decent hourly wage the longer people take the less money you make for the hour now i understand if a restaurant or establishment is busy that’s fine whatever but some places prioritize dd and ue more than actual walk in customers at least that’s how it was at a subway I worked at but some places arnt even busy and decide to stand around with their thumb up their arse and wait till said driver arrives to even start making the food which is bull
that’s why i love pizza delivery. i work part time. drive for 5-6 hours a night. get hourly wage of 9 a hour. free food. paid overtime. i average 28 a hour total after gas. most i’ve made was 45 a hour for 4 hours straight
You also get to decide what you wear to work, when you start and when you stop. There are downsides to working for a massive company or working for yourself.
Business owners, self employed, independent contractors don't get O.T. What's he complaining about? He new those things going in to this! Notice he is not quitting though. What he did not mention are the tax breaks for business related expenses! Everything has it's up and down points.!
And reason number 4, these companies take advantage of you and your vehicle and couldn't care less about you. They only care about the paying customer. It breaks my heart to hear how hard people work for so little, but the determination will get you somewhere. I know, I did instacart for a year and a half making pennies busting my @$$ through college.
Buying graded comic books on ebay is expensive so I'm using doordash to pay it off. I think door dash is great if you have a money goal. Not so good if your completely relying on door dash for your livelihood.
I did doordash for 3 yrs and never had to pay taxes but got so tired of the customers. The rudest,trashiest ppl some of them🤦🏻♀️ so glad I'm able to be a sahm now
I want to make a parody video called what delivery drivers think the world is like. And then walk into a restaurant and hand the waitress a tip before I even sit down lol.
The biggest problem is that they expect tips before the foods delivered, that's just not how tips work at all, its based on the quality at the end of service.
@@joeycampbell940 In delivery apps it is it’s not like a traditional server job servers aren’t paying for their own gas to serve tables and most of the time when a delivery is late or whatever else it’s bc of the restaurant not the driver so why would I waste my time and gas and actively lose money just because the restaurant was late or the customer decided to cheap out and not give a tip after the delivery?
@@joeycampbell940 how exactly do you deliver food wrong it’s literally picking it up and driving from point a to point b I’m not going to take a order that has no tip just for the customer to decide to not tip bc I got caught in traffic or the restaurant was late giving the order
I do this after my construction job. I use this money as my allowance for take out smokes drinks etc. The extra things in life and it works out plus it keeps me out of the house
@@ThatFilmisGnarly they definitely should take off the tip option and be upfront with the costs. It’s a marketing thing I think. Drivers in big tipping areas are going to promote the company to their friends. If it ur barely making tips ur not gonna tell talk about it
Here's 3 reasons I don't use 3rd party delivery services: 1. I can get it faster myself 2. The food is hot when I get home 3. There are no delivery guys pissing in my trashcan.
Yeah I never order food. Even pizza. It’s quicker and cheaper to get it myself plus I can check my order before leaving. Most people I know will order food at the drop of a dime. It’s crazy. Maybe if I were completely wasted.
@@jsocialsi work as an in-house driver for a local pizza shop and as a cook for another local pizza shop. 3rd party delivery orders are bottom priority, the order comes in, gets made, sits on an unheated table until the dasher shows up, the only care given is whether they got everything they paid for. Pick-up and/or in house delivery, we actually want you to get your food hot and timely, and if youre a good tipper you might get plates and napkins and extra sauces without even asking.
Signed up for door dash for shits and giggles in case I get bored one day. (Don’t need the extra hustle or cash, I’m doing just fine without it.) Then door dash keeps calling me and emailing me why I’m not dashing and that I should get out there. Lol. Like isn’t this supposed to be up to ME if I WANT to dash on MY free time? Wtf lol came at me like I’m employed and on a schedule or something . Told them off hahaha.
@@velvetrooster5569 no idea. I basically told them that I’ll dash whenever i wanted or felt like it. They just kept trying to have me go out even with my kids in the car etc. I’m like wtf? No, I’ll get around to it whenever, then they said ok and that was that. But still texting me and emailing me every day to go dash. Pffft
I also heard that for one of the services I think it's Uber eats, people can list the tip before you deliver and then cancel the tip after you deliver so that you never actually get the tip. So that's another reason not to drive for Uber eats I guess
The independent contractor part is a reason for working for door dash and similar. Not a reason to not do it. It's VASTLY better to be a independent contractor than a w2 employee. Generally you'll pay less in taxes if you track your expenses right.
Everyone's definition of a "fair wage" is different. Just bc you wouldn't work for X dollars doesn't mean someone else wouldn't. You'd be an asshole to force a business to close when the employee wants to work there and is content with their wage. You may think you're helping, but you're actually hurting people and preventing them from earning any money at all, and their children might end to starving bc of your entitled mindset
I mean I’ve been working Uber eats for 3 years now and I’ve been $76000 a year after gas. If you file with a good tax person there’s so many tax write offs that you get money back at the end of the year . Don’t listen to this guy
76k of PROFIT? Not to doubt you cause I’m sure it’s possible since I use to Uber people around and made 700 only doing weekends. But I’m curious as to how many hours you average a week to make that if you don’t mind me asking
@@dexrugger8030 nice nice. That’s pretty good. I drive for sysco doing 12 hour shifts but they pay us overtime, look into them if you’re already putting those kind of hours. They pay 33 an hour and 50 with OT. Not to mention you don’t gotta mess up your car
The tipping culture in the US is absurd. Why should a delivery driver be reliant on tips? They do nothing beyond the job description to earn a tip. The company needs to pay you guys more, calculating tips as part of your income is seriously fucked up. Why should a customer who is already paying more for delivery also be expected to tip? Am I supposed to tip the UPS or FedEx drivers too?
I mean- Technically, you can pay a monthly fee to have the delivery fee deleted and a discount on the fees in general, like with doordash. So, you actually don't pay much at all in delivery this way since you make your money back in 3 deliveries. They have to redo the entirety of the service to bypass them making enough money to be a service. Not sure how they'd do properly without charging even more money to compensate for livable wages.
Then the fees are incredibly more expensive bc the company now has to pay the driver a livable wage. More than likely the fees would then double if not triple
The issue is you're acting like you're someone who cares about working people having a basic standard of living when in reality you just want a pizza, you're too lazy to get it yourself, and too poor to pay a decent amount for it. Tip or don't tip, but don't act like stiffing your driver is some pro labor rights stance when it's just you being cheap. Because at the end of the day the companies aren't going to pay a livable wage just because you refuse to pay an extra $3 for your meal that you were fine paying $40 for. You want to take a stance against the greedy, billionaire owning/ruling class? You don't do it by screwing over the full time workers you depend on for food.
i live near by the hamptons and during the summer time i go to do uber eats there when i’m free. it’s actually ridiculous how much money i could make in like 7 hours
Why would you need overtime if you making the overtime amount every hour of the day. Being your own boss and working your own Hours is the biggest upside to DoorDash not the pay. Even if it pays a little less then your job it’s just about the freedom
That is 7 weeks of work at 60 hours a week it's approx $20 an hour minus gas, wear and tear, medical and taxes I would be shocked if he takes home 10 an hour after expenses.
These companies need to be held responsible with the bs algorithms and customers need to be banned if you don't got a few dollars (2-3$)then you can't afford it go get it yourself
You're absolutely correct about the No Overtime. The only way to make good money in food delivery is putting in a LOT of hours and by looking at the income at a weekly or even monthly scale. The income is very inconsistent even with long 12+ hour shifts.
Still better than working at Speedway. We do 5 jobs at once (Stocker, cashier, dishwasher, janitor, cook), don't get breaks or even sit down time, never have more than 2 people working at a time and for 2nd shift I'm alone the last 3 hours (it still is busy as hell every day 7pm-10pm), usually I get two 10 hour shifts a week (noon-10pm) and they even went as far as to change the beginning day of the week on a schedule to stop me from getting overtime. It used to be Monday-Sunday. Now it's Thursday-Wednesday. We also cannot stay clocked in past our scheduled times to get unfinished tasks done (there are so many its rare they will be all done especially if you have a nonstop flow of customers), but if they aren't done you get written up the next day and yelled at about it. All for $12 an hour. And while most of this sounds illegal what I was told is that gas station laws are different. And I believe that because oil companies make and break whatever laws they want and the government submits to them.
Owen , I'm thinking about this and first , the amount of hours that you work / on call is entirely up to you and your needs and yes tips are a viable part of the income . Therefore , presentation is a key . Taxes can be easily taken care of if that percentage is " stowed away " . Then again record keeping is key to a simple filing . Such as working a W2 job . Don't be your worst enemy .
The one thing a lot of people forget or don't seem to understand is that these delivery apps were never meant to be a full-time job they're called side hustles. If your choosing keyword choosing to work full-time you can't complain about the pay because like I stated before it's meant to be a side hustle.
That is so true it was just a side job for extra money but it became a regular job now and so they truly depend on it to pay all the bills and everything because you can go when you want don't have to answer to nobody want to deal with other people but like I said it was not supposed to be a full-time job for your part-time job like on the weekends or whatever just to make ends meet so I'm making my ends meet it's just extra income
Man, it was great in the beginning. Did it one summer in 2017 when the base rates were higher and I could make $150 to $200 per day in 6 hours. A medical condition damn near financially ruined me at the end of 2022, so I started doing it again just to make ends meet, I couldn’t even hit half of that in the same amount of time. Decided being broke was way better.
@@xystumpy220 there’s ways around it my guy . Gas and mileage expenses . Phone bill expenses , etc . I’m prepared my boy . I have a very good accountant
There’s other issues too; for example, if you arrive at the restaurant and the food isn’t ready (let’s say they say it will be 20 minutes). You update that on the app and you have two options: 1) stay and wait for the food without pay (you don’t get paid for the time you sit and wait for the food even if it’s an hour) Or 2) decline to wait and have it affect your acceptance rate/standing, which in turn lowers your driver “tier” (which can affect your eligibility for higher paying jobs like large/catering orders, advanced scheduling, priority for choosing shifts, etc). Basically, you’re fucked if you do and fucked if you don’t. But the worst part has to be the large reliance on tips…I’ve had a couple days where I averaged $30/hour, lots of days I averaged $18-20/hour and several days where I averaged less than $10/hour (which is the minimum wage in my area). Cumulatively, I average around $17/hour, which - minus fuel - brings me down to a little over $14/hour.
Instead of waiting you could go to the dumpster and get as close to the order as possible with scraps. You could even come back later for the real order and eat it.
Except starting your own business has opportunity for growth, if you provide a service people need and do it well, you will have a good prosperous life. If you do that for dd, you will be homeless
if you decide to work for one of these please be nice to the workers at the restaurants. we had a lady who worked for doordash come in yesterday and she went through the drive-thru which for Taco Bell we ask that drivers come inside to grab the food and so my GM told her that after giving the woman her food for the delivery and she started throwing the customers sauce packets at my GM because she didn't want to get out of her car. keep in mind my GM still gave the food to the woman so she didn't force her to come inside she just politely asked her to come in for future reference and with one phone call to Doordash our AGM got her fired for her behavior
thats what happens when you say you're not taking mobile orders, then you pull up and say okay then charge my card, and they say they cant do it, yet the 5 cars ahead of you got their order and 5 cars behind you. id throw sauce packets aswell, probably drive by shooting the place
@@nbatalkz6635 Me and my husband do uber eats full time and we make $200 less than 20 deliveries. We live around Very rich areas. So it's very possible. Tips are great.
Make sure to keep track of mileage and any equipment you might need everything from your cell phone to shoes can be considered a deductible most jobs like this if done right come out tax exempt or close to it
There should be a law that states that delivery drivers for uber eats and such are employees and not independent contractors, the Netherlands did this and its surprising how many of these business don’t exist in the Netherlands anymore because of this
Also, there's a lot of downtime, depending on the time and area you deliver. There was times when I would have to wait 20-45 minutes for another order to come through. And you're not getting paid all that time you're just waiting around.
