Download the Dasher Tracker here, where you can track your earnings, fuel costs, and taxes for your job as a driver for Door Dash, Grubhub, Uber Eats, or other delivery driving gig.
Just last week, Door Dash sent out an email to all Dashers with the tagline: How much can you earn when dashing in your area? The email showed me how much the average dasher makes in Philadelphia, as shown below. 5 hrs/week - Dasher's earned an average of $114 10 hrs/week - Dasher's earned an average of $235 20 hrs/week - Dasher's earned an average of $479 40 hrs/week - Dasher's earned an average of $927 Data Analysis With The Dasher Tracker Shortly after I read the email, I decided to examine my Dasher…
Many American's blame their income for their inability to save. If you have already tried to save money by spending less and budgeting, try these easy ways to make a little extra income. Work Part-Time. Sign up for one of over 100 different gig economy apps and work part-time, on your own time. Drive people around with Uber. Drive food around with DoorDash. Shop for and delivery groceries with InstaCart. Write papers on Fiver.Rent out a bedroom and get a…
In order to track my miles, hours, pay, fuel costs, and taxes, I created a spreadsheet in Google Sheets called the Dasher Tracker. Every time I end my Dash, I update my Dasher Tracker spreadsheet through my Google Drive app. The spreadsheet has built in formulas that automatically calculate your average hourly wage, average fuel cost, and taxes owed per quarter. This spreadsheet also works for Grubhub, Uber Eats, Post Mates, and other deliveries platforms. You can request a copy…
Door Dash has partnered with Clerkie, a debt and money assistant. As a Dasher, you have the option to join Clerkie 6 months for free. They can help manage your finances, pay off debt, negotiations and refunds, and more. They can also help build up your credit, reduce or eliminate overdraft fees, and help you gain access to emergency cash. As a member, you are assigned your own personal financial assistant. You can install Clerkie from the iOS App store…
Most of these gig economy delivery platforms promise up to $25 per hour. My father is a full time delivery driver for Uber, Lyft, and Door Dash with Uber being is primary job. In comparison, I drive Door Dash part time whenever i'm bored. No matter what, I always seem to average $21-22 per hour over each week that I dash. That means the $25 per hour promise is very attainable. This doesn't mean you can expect to earn the…
About a year ago, I accepted an order from Walgreens pharmacy. I was confused and didn't know what to expect. I had no idea that Door Dash partnered with pharmacies and added shopping orders to the platform. I had to physically go into Walgreens and shop for the customer. I was okay with this, but other Dashers were not. I spoke with Door Dash support and they informed me that I could remove pharmacy deliveries from my profile so that…
I was reading an article on Bloomberg discussing the #DeclineNow movement. Two drivers local to me in Easton PA have been trying to beat the Door Dash algorithm to earn more money. These two drivers, Dave Levy and Nikos Kanelopoulos met as Uber drivers waiting at the airport. They both noticed that when you decline an order in Door Dash, that order gets assigned to someone else at a higher pay. In an effort to increase the pay for everyone,…
DoorDash and GrubHub are currently the two most popular food delivery apps. As a DoorDash driver, I've come across many other DoorDash, PostMates, GrubHub, and UberEats drivers during my deliveries. I started to notice that many of them work for multiple delivery apps so I started asking questions on what service they think is best. From my sample population, the majority preferred the user interface of DoorDash with GrubHub being a close second. I recognized that DoorDash wasn't perfect so…
Prior to becoming a Door Dash driver, I was a pizza delivery driver for Domino's Pizza. Working with Domino's Pizza, I learned so many tricks to making more deliveries, earning more tips, and making my deliveries more efficient. Combining what I learned with Door Dash, I came up with a solid strategy that earned me an average of $21/hr with some days earning as high as $45/hr. The following are my top 10 Dasher hacks. Schedule your Dash ahead of…
At the height of the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic, thousands of people were laid off or furloughed. Some jobs were permanently replaced as businesses strategized ways to stay open. Fortunately for me, I was only furloughed for 2 weeks. During that time, like many Americans, I decided to fill in the income gap by joining the gig economy. I joined DoorDash, a food delivery app that is similar to other gig economy companies like Uber, Lyft, GrubHub, PostMates, and InstaCart, to…
