"Tips" were effectively bids for service under the old model, as they were paid before the service was performed and determined whether a driver felt it worthwhile to accept that order. Now DoorDash will have to dynamically figure out how much to charge the customer to both interest drivers and meet this minimum pay requirement. I'm interested in seeing how it turns out.
DoorDash raises minimum pay to $29.93 per hour in NYC
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#12> Dashers who deliver in NYC will now earn at least $29.93 per hour of active time, nearly twice NYC’s $15 minimum wage for other workers. What’s a realistic amount of “active time” per hour? I’m assuming waiting for a job is not active time right? > These new regulations will force us to raise fees for orders in New York City. In order to better balance the impact of these new costs, we’re moving the option to tip i…
They should be forced to be honest and call it a bid, not a tip.
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Living wage > consumer excess. Walk to the restaurant if you can't afford it.
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#14Assuming a delivery worker works 5 hours a day for 5 days a week, that's roughly 35,916 usd. As a PhD student that hits hard.
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#15> With the changes required by NYC and the impact it will have on our system, we are pausing our Priority Access program, which gives Dashers who have high ratings priority on higher-paying offers. Since Dashers will earn a guaranteed minimum rate, the benefits offered by this program will not apply in NYC. The Top Dasher program is still available for qualified NYC Dashers.
So they're guaranteeing higher pay for all workers, and cutting a benefit for their best workers? I wonder what kind of impact this will have. Will this encourage some of these top workers to leave the platform, since they can no longer get access to good orders based on their track record?
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#16I read an interesting article about delivery drivers in NYC, specifically how much of the market was completely unregulated and illegal, and how people work within what functions as an underground economy:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/nyregion/migrant-delivery...
The person doing the work often isn't the person registered with (e.g.) DoorDash. There's a whole economy of middlemen who resell straw buyers' credentials/accounts.
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#17Just curious what do you pay in Nyc for delivery? Must be at least 15 dollars then?
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#18The platform fees and the insane menu price markups that restaurants apply for delivery app orders have made it impractical to use Uber Eats & DoorDash for a couple years now IMO. I only ever consider using them when offered at least 50% off.
Mandated minimum earnings will benefit the drivers, but that won't help drivers that have to quit the platforms because people stop using them.
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#19"As always 100% of tips go to dashers" lol it was "as always" definitely remember reading that DD kept couriers tips...
They used tips (and may still use tips) to refund themselves for the minimum pay offered to dashers. The language was very deceptive, as giving a tip did not always increase the amount of money received by a dasher.
I thought they got the tip if they got more than the minimum pay in tips.
Otherwise, DD used the tip to pay them.
Meaning - if you somehow work one job and it takes an entire hour - and you got a $10 tip - you would only make $29, not $29 + $10x1 = $39.
If you worked 1 hour and did 5 jobs - each with $10 tips - you would get paid $50 - not $29 + $10x5 = $79.