Let’s face it Uber and Lyft are the only ones making money in rideshare. Most drivers are struggling financially. You need to drive smart. Only accept profitable rides. The short rides with a surge are the only rides making decent money. Long rides are the worst. Airport queues are saturated with too many drivers. If you’re not 1-5 in the queue, DON’T turn your app on. Wait for the surge. Remember it’s drivers against rideshare companies. Uber and Lyft do not care about you. You’re just another car on the road collecting money for them.
888/18hrs = 49.3 That's almost 50$ an hr. That's not bad at all. Fact is EVERYBODY is struggling in this economy somewhat. Direct your anger at the root cause, which is Government and the Federal Reserve for devaluation of the dollar. You're just a tax cattle to them.
You should make $30-$35/hr. after expenses. Do not accept any rides for less than that amount. Ask how much a private taxi would charge, and $30-$35 is very reasonable. The pay is justified because you have crazy hours, work hard, and you put your safety and car at risk. And, you are only going to do driving for a short time before moving on to something that is more stable. Also, Uber and Lyft say you make over $30 to the media, so you should make at least as much as they say you make.
Thanks for sharing. You did well. Way too dead on East bay and typically dont work much gigs in jan. Did about 8 rides and 10 deliveries the whole month.
January is the slowest time of the year. But I think it will start to get busy now. This rainstorm over the weekend made things slower with people staying inside.
I haven't driven Uber since 2019 in San Francisco. I would average about $2000 per week driving 60 hours.... Do you think those numbers are still possible?
This past 2 weeks has been good in SF during certain times. I was getting comfort trips from SF to Palo Alto for $60+ almost every morning. In the evening I would get that 1 trip from SF south comfort trip for like $50-70.
@@7hinkable active time and online time is a bit hard to calculate. In my market it’s not like I’m putting in 25 hours active while being online 40hrs. It’s closer to 25 active while 30-31 online for this week. With those online time some of it I’m declining and not actively accepting trips. Let’s say I decline at 10am and there’s not another ping until 10:15 and I declined that too so is it my fault I’m not actively working? If I accepted the offer then I’m on active time. A few times today I drove to the pickup address and the pax isn’t ready after 3 minutes so I took off which means I wasted about 10 minutes each time since I cancelled the trip. Another moment was what would have been my last trip and I pull up to the address and there’s someone that’s likely my passenger but seems aloof that I’m her car. It took me less than 10 seconds to cancel and take off and that cost me another 10 minutes. There are times that passengers makes us loose/waste our time.
you’re numbers are skewed since you are living in the most expensive state in the US, your money not going as far as you think with $5,200 gross a month
