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I'm a driver for Uber and Lyft — here's exactly how much I make in one week on the job
The final tally was about $257 for less than 14 hours of work — or about $19 an hour.
Read on for a detailed breakdown of how much I made driving for Uber and Lyft, including some of the most unusual passengers and some mishaps I had along the way....
I put 291.1 miles on my Prius, using about 5.75 gallons of gas, which is about $13.22 in gas expenses for my area...
I had to then find who was open on a Sunday to replace the flat tire. While I was on the phone calling places, I figured I might as well get four new tires altogether, and an oil change too, since my car was almost due for those. Safety first... It was $430.22 to fix my car.
One estimate of the Prius TCO for 5 years / 75,000 miles is $34,067 - or $0.454 per mile, beating the IRS mileage rate of $0.58. This guy doesn't come off as one who does his own work or otherwise keeps that TCO down...
Interesting that he even neglected his gas money in his hourly "income" quotation, factoring in $0.50/mile TCO instead. His net income is around $112 for a self (likely under) estimated 14 hours of work (isn't calling around town on a Sunday to get your car fixed also work?), or $8 per hour. I suppose it's good for the self-esteem if you don't think of yourself putting your life at risk for less than minimum wage.
Anyone here eager to get out and live that gig economy lifestyle?
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday October 14 2019, @07:48PM
130 million FTE in the US -> 1.56T
27 million Part Timers averaging 34 hours per week, 34/40 * 12000 = 10200 per head -> 275B
Social Security -> 980B
SNAP -> 70B
Unemployment -> 100B
60 million US citizens under age 14, count them at 1/2 UBI rate on average -> 360B
There's 3.3T of your 4T. Maybe UBI isn't $12K/yr, maybe it's $10K/yr at today's tax rates. That's $10K/yr per capita of security - no excuses for homelessness, starvation, and no worry "if I don't keep this crappy job my kids are going to have to sleep in a bus shelter."
My wife's parents lived for 20 years on less than $20K/yr fixed income, and they managed to keep $18K in savings while doing it - it wasn't luxurious, but it was what they wanted to do, in Florida, with a truck they drove, a sailboat when they could manage it, a vacation to Iceland...
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