What a gig order pays per hour

The offer screen shows what the trip pays. Fees, fuel, and the empty miles back all come out before the hour is over, and none of them sit next to the accept button.

Two orders, two wages

An $18 order with $9 in platform fees and fuel leaves $9 for the hour it takes. A $30 order with $4 in costs that runs 95 minutes door to door comes to about $16 an hour. The sticker alone says nothing; the costs and the minutes set the real rate.

Where the costs hide

Platform cut is the visible one. The rest sits in the miles: the drive to the pickup, the wait at the counter, the trip back from a far suburb with an empty car. Each is unpaid on paper and priced into the hour anyway.

Where the math is already done

ExtraHustles ranks side hustles by take-home per hour after hidden costs: pallets ranked by real hourly take, churning priced with its tax bill, deactivation risk counted as lost wages. Begin at ExtraHustles, gig income ranked by real hourly rate, or read the receipts-first side-hustle publication that ran the pallet math.