The latest news & notes on what’s going on with the Pay Up campaign.
Our analysis of more than two hundred samples of pay data provided by DoorDash workers across the country finds that DoorDash pays the average worker an astonishingly low $1.45/hour, after accounting for the costs of mileage and additional payroll taxes borne by independent contractors. Nearly a third of jobs actually pay less than $0 after accounting for these basic expenses.
Read MoreThis week, DoorDash released a brand-new way to make sure its workers accept subminimum wages.
Read More“First at Instacart and now at DoorDash, the Pay Up campaign has organized workers, spoken out to customers, and created irresistible public pressure that transformed the pay model of a multibillion-dollar corporation.
Read MoreCustomers don’t just “add” a tip: DoorDash in fact sets customers to a default 15% tip. Leave that at the default of 15%, and it adds $0 to what the worker gets paid.
Read MoreDoorDash’s announcement basically amounted to…saying that they’re sticking with the same exploitative pay model they’ve been using for years: using customers’ tips to subsidize workers’ pay so DoorDash can get away with paying as little as $1 per job.
Read More"Talking about transparency is good. And admitting you pay $1/job is better than denying it. But $1 is still $1.”
Read MoreHere’s why we need Instacart, DoorDash, and other gig companies to #PayUp.
There are a million screenshots we could share to make it clear just how shady gig companies are when it comes to pay. But let’s dig into a couple.
Read MoreHundreds of you joined us for our very first National #PayUp meeting on March 27. We came together and talked about how we go from big ideas to crafting real policy. We dug into some of the issues people are seeing across different apps. And we talked about the next steps we can all take to make gig companies finally #PayUp.
Read MoreThat’s loyalty.
Read MoreA survey of tip-taking & payment models on gig economy apps like DoorDash, Instacart, GrubHub, Postmates, Amazon Flex, Uber, and Lyft
Read MoreDoorDash claims that workers in the US averaged “more than $17.50 per hour on a delivery” last year. Even if that $17.50 figure is accurate, it works out to less than $6/hour after backing out tips and accounting for the cost of mileage, contractors’ additional payroll taxes, and other expenses.
Read More“We, current and future tech workers, have a message for DoorDash execs and investors: we will not work for you until you fix your pay practices.”
Read MoreDoorDash promises to pay just $1 for any given job that comes from their own money. Past that one dollar – literally, one single dollar — the more the customer tips, the less DoorDash pays. They just replace pay with tips. And despite how much they like to say “transparency”, they don’t even actually show workers how much pay is coming from the company on a given job, and how much is from the tip.
Read More“Instacart confirmed that when its payment algorithm determines a driver should be paid below that guaranteed $10, the company uses the customer’s predelivery, “up front” tip to cover the difference. The “up front” tip is automatically set to 5% on the Instacart app; if the customer removes the tip, and the payout would be below $10, Instacart itself covers the cost. The company said the number of orders where the algorithmically determined payment comes out to under $10 is low, but declined to specify a percentage.”
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