Uber drivers’ wages revisited: How much do they make?


  • TECH
  • Friday, 25 May 2018

Jesse Vega checks a vehicle at the first of Uber's 'Work On Demand' recruitment events where they hope to sign 12,000 new driver-partners, in South Los Angeles on March 10, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / Mark Ralston

A new analysis about Uber drivers' wages finds that they take home about US$9.21 (RM36.66) an hour, or less than minimum wage in many of the biggest markets where the ride-hailing service operates. 

The analysis, by the pro-labour think tank Economic Policy Institute, builds on a recent MIT study that at first said that Uber drivers made an average of US$3.37 (RM13.41) an hour, then revised that figure to a median US$8.55 (RM34.03) an hour. 

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