How much can I earn in 8 hours?
The Uber Eats app provides drivers with a forecast that tells them
every hour that it's going to be busy over the next 24 hours.
So I decided to work the 8 hours
that the app said it was going to be busy on this day.
So according to the forecast, the good hours on this day, 8 a.m.
to 9 a.m., 11 a.m.
to 2 p.m., and then 5 p.m. to 9 p.m..
So that's 8 hours in total.
Now, I should say that I consider decent earnings to be anything over $30 per hour.
So if I'm going to work 8 hours on this day, I'm expecting to make at least $240.
I went out in the morning and it was not good.
That was a wickedly long wait.
I definitely won't be going back to that place again.
I earned $36.12 in exactly one and a half hours.
And I actually covered that in more detail in last week's video.
That was the breakfast shift.
I then went out at lunchtime and it was much better.
And I ended lunch on
$113.80 from 4 hours and one minute.
So I needed to make $127 in the four hour
dinner shift to show that the app forecast is correct
and that my expectations of $30 per hour are also reasonable.
Here's what happened.
We’re almost at the first drop off
15 more to go.
Well, that was a bit unfortunate.
Oh. Two orders to Bridgewater.
This is a really difficult one.
The money's good
for 53 minutes. Nah.
Can't do it.
So Ubereats
is starting to deliver up the freeway
here in Adelaide, which is great
for the people who live up there.
But for a driver, you can't pick anything up when you get up there.
So it's another 20, 30 minutes coming back down.
Not getting paid for it.
So if they want drivers to go up there,
you've got to be paying, you know,
1.5 times what you'd normally be paying.
So I'm going to try and pick something up on the eastern side of the city
because there is a boost in the city at the moment.
So hopefully we can pick something up
on Hutt Street.
So we picked up a reasonable order
at my favorite restaurant
heading there now.
Got the next order straight away.
And it is 200 meters away.
Perfect.
Okay.
We've dropped that pizza order off
and picked up the next offer, which is Sushi Train.
A little bit of a risk with Sushi Train because there can be a bit of a wait.
But we'll find out when we get there
Allright
Good job, Sushi Train, Plympton.
Order was ready.
So we've had some pretty efficient
pick ups today.
Quick update.
I have worked just over an hour and earned about $32.
I am on track.
Okay.
Hour two is up
about $63 for 2 hours.
So still on track.
Looking good.
All right.
We are almost, almost there.
I'm on $204.
We've got an hour and a quarter left to go.
So I think we're going to make the target.
And 27 trips from just under 7 hours
is right on the money for me.
This next pick up at Crust Pizza will take me to about $220
and we've got about 50 minutes until the 8 hours is up.
So we're close.
Okay, so that is it.
Job done.
So that's what we're looking at.
Two 4137 in 7 hours
and 51 minutes, 33 trips.
So I would expect to do 32 trips, four trips per hour.
So the trips is right on the money.
And obviously the hourly rate was was what I was looking for as well.
Tips did help.
So I got $11.50 tip. $11.50 in tips.
I think it was three tips.
But even if I didn't get tips,
I declined this order at the end,
these two orders at the end.
So I think I would have made it right on time, right on the money.
Okay.
So at the end of the long day, I did make the target.
Let's just break down the earnings by breakfast,
lunch and dinner to see the difference between those three parts of the day.
Breakfast was $36.12 in
1.5 hours at $24.04 per hour.
Lunch was 77.68 in 2 hours and 31 minutes,
and that was at $30.87 per hour.
Dinner was $127.57 in 3 hours and 50 minutes.
That that works out at $33.28 per hour.
So we had a significant progression over the day in the hourly rate
based on this I’m actually keen to test working a little bit later into the night
and just see if that continues or if it drops off.
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