But why do the hours matter? I’m still trying to wrap my head around this hourly rating shit! Is annoying. In a real business you never count the hours you work to achieve success.
Didn’t focus last week between uber & Lyft made roughly over $450. Focused more on my online work which still brought me up to over $500 for last week.
Do you drive x or xl? Ive always been curious how x people make $800+ a week. Lol
I don’t know how to uber pool and…I’m 4 passenger limit and drunk college kids got in my car days ago with booze 5 of them. No way. How do you uber pool
I am not a hater. But on the other hand, if someone wants to know something and I have the knowledge I will try to answer their question. I don’t care what others make. I have a goal that I set and work until I meet that goal or are too tired to drive anymore. On the average, I meet my goal every week combining Uber and Lyft. Drivers who are not analyzing their production, gross and net are kidding themselves when they say they are making money. Just because you have cash flow doesn’t mean your making money. As an accountant, I am tuned into this stuff. Most aren’t. This whole conversation started with a post about earnings and from my perspective, the earnings should have equal comparison. I started just to see where I was with another driver in my market. The lack of understanding by some in this post proves to me that some don’t really know if they are making money. The young lady above asked about the possibility to make 800 or so a week and I advised her about the effort she would need based on my results. I have found that most people who use the term “hater” use it as an escape as opposed to actually understanding what is being said.
For "most people " the time you leave your house in the morning, til you clock into work for the day is considered “non -compensatable” time… (same with the time it takes you to drive home)… so why should this be any different? (Yes, some people have negotiated travel time / pay - that is certainly not the norm though, at least not in the US.
If you clock out for lunch, or clock out to drive home, you are still considered to be making the specified hourly / salary rate you agreed to.
I could only imaging my bosses face when I tell him there was an overturned semi on the way home, and I had a 5 hour delay getting to bed… AND that now he owes me for 5 more hours of pay.
Time not logged into the app should not be factored into your overall hourly rate of work - although without a doubt, it does impact that number.
Your rationale is from,the employee/employer perspective. As an IC rideshare provider, technically, when you leave the house you are at work. However, even if you eliminate the “commute”, there are times during the day that you are in the car and not online. From my POV, you are still in rideshare mode, because you aren’t able to do something else. For instance, in the middle of the day requests slow down in Seattle. So with it being impractical to return home, I usually find a spot to lay back and relax for a bit. I am still in the car and unable to do other things like go home and now the lawn or have a drink or whatever. I consider that time that I am in rideshare mode. My initial comment was to only compare performance with comparable data and conditions. All the rest of this banter is frivolous.
You can actually reduce that time if you map out surge times if you drive for uber or Prime time with Lyft and hitting the bonuses that they have.
I live in Grand Rapids, MI. Not a huge market but is popular. On average 40 hours i make around $500. I go where ever the rides take me. I dont nitpick certain areas. Like the airport. Everyone and they cousin hang out there, so i try to stay clear.
I didn’t think so either, until i seen drivers in my area making $800+. Lol. Im new so i know its gonna take time for me to figure everything out. I appreciate all your advice. Hope your week goes great 
Funny thing was my dad flew in from the East Coast at 2 a.m. that day and I decided to Uber after dropped him off at his house from the airport. So the money that I earned from 2:30 a.m. til about 4 a.m. counted for Tuesday instead of Wednesday. LOL
Great job Shawn, The money is there if they want it. As a business owner it’s about the money not the time. Employees werry about time.
Depends on your market and trips distance. It has been days where i made $300 in 3 hours on 4 trips. The DC market is a very very strong market. I do $150 a day easily in 6 hours. You got to have a olan and strategey. It is a business
I made that in five days driving a tour bus going to Monument Valley, Grand Canyon and Lake Powell. Plus a $300.00 tip and all my food and lodging and I didn’t have to put in half the work you did. And I didn’t have to put miles on my car
I used to own a courier business in logistics for delivery for 12 years and I got used to driving for long periods of time so I understand where you’re coming from. I always gave myself breaks to eat to run errands and to enjoy the day.
Nevermind i see it at the bottom of the picture its 33 dollars not bad for having the live in app tip for about 5 days
Thats what’s up hopefully people in Seattle are aware that in app tipping is live and if they keep giving you cash tips at least you dont have to report it
some of yall are awful. ragging on people for being happy/excited about making money. you should be happy for your fellow people
I haven’t seen anyone ragging on anybody! These posts are awesome! They help the rookies out 
Thanks for the encouragement Shawne DeaKings. I have felt very discouraged about driving for uber but im gonna get out there tomorrow.