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I do Uber / Lyft as a part time gig in Austin. To those saying Uber / Lyft treat their ‘contractors’ like crap, well… you’re correct. All I can ever see myself doing it is a part time gig. I mainly use it to pay the tolls and repay all the debt incurred during my 2020 layoff period. There’s 0 protection for drivers whatsoever in the event you get a nut job. We don’t get paid for the time / distance we have to consume to drive to our passengers which is a hassle when we receive requests more than 10 miles from our location. Uber / Lyft do not pay a lot ordinarily either but with surges I have managed around $700 extra every weekend. The market for it in Austin is strong. It is true that we are a lot more sparse in the suburbs though.
Yeah. If the market here in Austin wasn’t strong and I wasn’t making decent money, I wouldn’t recommend doing it. They use your car and rack the miles and vehicle expenses up while giving you back close to nothing for repairs or maintenance. Passengers treat you as if you don’t even exist and will do anything from making out in the back seat to vomiting because they couldn’t drive home intoxicated, then you get the irate nut jobs who tell you about all the guns they carry in their own car and make unnecessary demands. Finally it’s extremely exhausting (I do it all day during the weekends.) They will even throttle you if you start making too much by causing you to go incognito on the map so you won’t receive ride requests unless it’s one like 30 minutes away from your location.
All of their support is in India or something so if you need assistance you get to wait in a queue to speak to Rohit who barely speaks English and will make sure he does everything he can to completely ignore your problem or situation and get you off the line as quickly as possible.
For now I’m just glad I have a way of paying back my 2020 debt using it as a second job so it’s the lesser of the two evils. I long for the day I can return to a normal life though.
Yeah. If the market here in Austin wasn’t strong and I wasn’t making decent money, I wouldn’t recommend doing it. They use your car and rack the miles and vehicle expenses up while giving you back close to nothing for repairs or maintenance. Passengers treat you as if you don’t even exist and will do anything from making out in the back seat to vomiting because they couldn’t drive home intoxicated, then you get the irate nut jobs who tell you about all the guns they carry in their own car and make unnecessary demands. Finally it’s extremely exhausting (I do it all day during the weekends.) They will even throttle you if you start making too much by causing you to go incognito on the map so you won’t receive ride requests unless it’s one like 30 minutes away from your location.
All of their support is in India or something so if you need assistance you get to wait in a queue to speak to Rohit who barely speaks English and will make sure he does everything he can to completely ignore your problem or situation and get you off the line as quickly as possible.
For now I’m just glad I have a way of paying back my 2020 debt using it as a second job so it’s the lesser of the two evils. I long for the day I can return to a normal life though.
I've heard this is all true. Have also heard that they will try to cheat the drivers on their bonuses. Have a few relatives that do the rideshare thing, mad respect for them. Heard you can make 10k a month pretty easily. When they tell me about Uber cheating them out of money I ask why not sue? They said it's not worth it, Uber/Lyft cheats you incrementally, 5.00 here, 12.00 there, etc. Who sues over that?
I do Uber / Lyft as a part time gig in Austin. To those saying Uber / Lyft treat their ‘contractors’ like crap, well… you’re correct. All I can ever see myself doing it is a part time gig. I mainly use it to pay the tolls and repay all the debt incurred during my 2020 layoff period. There’s 0 protection for drivers whatsoever in the event you get a nut job. We don’t get paid for the time / distance we have to consume to drive to our passengers which is a hassle when we receive requests more than 10 miles from our location. Uber / Lyft do not pay a lot ordinarily either but with surges I have managed between $700 and $1200 extra every weekend. The market for it in Austin is strong. It is true that we are a lot more sparse in the suburbs though.
Curious, what would you say your avg. hourly rate is (gross)?
Prices have gone up significantly for Uber/Lyft and waits are 2-3x as long as previously. Have had decent luck w/ Uber in general in Chicago, Seattle, St. Louis, Philly, most larger cities tbh. Not so great where I am (10-15 min. wait is pretty normal)
Curious, what would you say your avg. hourly rate is (gross)?
I also do it in Austin for extra income on the side. It depends if you do it during a streak bonus or during normal hours. I typically don't make less than $20 an hour and with streaks have made up to $50, and one day even averaged $80 an hour (anything above $30/hr is rare). On average I would say I can make $25-$30 an hour.
It sounds decent at face value. However, driving 75 miles in an hour and easily 1,000 miles in a week, you quickly rack up the miles on your vehicle and can easily go through a full tank of gas in a single "shift". Having to pay $50 to fill up, that takes away two hours worth of the average hourly income. $75 for an oil change and that's another three hours worth of income lost to maintenance. Toll fees also stack up, where I have had to spend up to $20 a day.
Before you know it, after expenses, you may have only made maybe $10-$15/hr, any given day. Now take into consideration the company may be charging you $50 for a ride. Well a driver will only see about $15 of that.
Curious, what would you say your avg. hourly rate is (gross)?
Could be anywhere from 20-60 an hour from what I've heard.
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