{"id":11155,"date":"2014-07-01T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11155"},"modified":"2014-06-30T23:37:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T03:37:19","slug":"the-economics-of-being-an-uber-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/the-economics-of-being-an-uber-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Being An Uber Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/070114_0334_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Uber is a service that lets almost anybody operate their own taxi, to be hailed through a mobile app. Megan Rose Dickey took a look at what aspiring Uber drivers can hope to earn:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Uber released data showing that half its New York City drivers earn more than $90,000 a year.<\/li>\n<li>However the sample only included those drivers who work over 40 hours a week and didn&#8217;t include costs such as gas, insurance, or Uber&#8217;s 20% cut.<\/li>\n<li>One Uber driver grossed $15 an hour. But after taking into account costs that goes down to about $4.54 an hour \u2013 well below minimum wage.<\/li>\n<li>To make $75,000 a year in San Francisco a driver would have to work a 58 hour work week.<\/li>\n<li>Those not looking to make it a full time gig can work 16 hours on Friday and Saturday nights to make about $400 per week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the costs and benefits of being an Uber driver, some driver requirements, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/how-much-you-earn-as-an-uber-driver-2014-6?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider+%28Business+Insider%29\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/how-much-you-earn-as-an-uber-driver-2014-6?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider+%28Business+Insider%29\">Business Insider<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uber is a service that lets almost anybody operate their own taxi, to be hailed through a mobile app. Megan Rose Dickey took a look at what aspiring Uber drivers can hope to earn: Uber released data showing that half its New York City drivers earn more than $90,000 a year. However the sample only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/070114_0334_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11157,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11155\/revisions\/11157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}