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by Dash Bridges on June 13, 2019 Leave a Comment

Can DoorDash Drivers Really Make $17.50 an Hour?

In the good old days of rideshare driving and delivery, drivers could make some good money, especially if they coupled their earnings with bonuses and referrals. Not so any longer! By 2019, those opportunities are long gone.

However, recently DoorDash founder Tony Xu claimed DoorDash drivers, aka Dashers, still could make $17.50 an hour. Is this true? Can DoorDash drivers really make $17.50 an hour? Let’s break it down.

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by Dash Bridges on May 2, 2019 Leave a Comment

Tipping Points: How Delivery Services Encourage You to Tip Your Drivers (and Earn More for Themselves)

Do you get tips as a delivery (DoorDash, Postmates, etc.) driver? Have you noticed something off about your delivery tips or pay after you’ve received tips? RSG contributor Dash Bridges uncovers the murky way tipping is factored into delivery pay.

As you know, there’s a murky quality to the methods by which delivery services pay their drivers. The simple ‘flat fee + 100% of tips’ policy from the Days of Yore (i.e. Spring 2017) is gone. It’s been replaced by guaranteed minimums, mysterious pay boost algorithms and the faint hope of a payment over and above what’s promised. The recent outrage over the $0.80 Instacart payout incident brought a lot of scrutiny to these methods. Certainly, these payment policies sow distrust to the relationship between driver and services.

Most of this scrutiny centers on the tipping portion of payments. Americans understand tipping as an act that supports labor over and above their compensation for the job. Cabbies earn a certain percentage of the fare, but a tip goes fully into their pocket. We assume wait staff, hotel employees and baggage handlers all make consistent hourly wages, and our additional cash all goes into their pockets, independent of their employer compensation.

However, how does tipping truly work when it comes to delivery companies? How are people encouraged to tip, at all, and how do those tips get distributed to delivery drivers? I took a look at the different delivery apps just to see how delivery apps do (or don’t) encourage people to tip.

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by Harry Campbell on April 22, 2019 Leave a Comment

All About DoorDash Driver Pay

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DoorDash Driver Pay: Everything You Need to Know Based on My Actual Experience

While previous DoorDash ads touted you could make $25 an hour delivering, in my experience, I’ve made closer to $15 an hour. However, there are lots of driver bonuses that can boost your pay when you sign up to drive for DoorDash. For instance, I’ve already received multiple opportunities for $20/hr guaranteed pay and bonus cash for certain shifts! I’ll explain how those work.

DoorDash Driver Pay Is Worth It, But First Here’s What To Know About Signing-Up

One of the reasons why I started looking into DoorDash is because they are in hundreds of cities and they are still growing, which means they need lots of drivers.

When I examined if driving for DoorDash is worth it, I talked about why so many drivers are signing up for DoorDash. Today I’m going to detail what that actual sign-up process is like, and tell you about what I learned at my DoorDash orientation.

First, it’s important to know you need to sign up with from a referral given by a friend or current Dasher. It works two ways currently. Either the driver can send you a link via the Dasher app, or when you’re signing up, there’s a location to enter their phone number and that will work in place of a referral code. You can sign up to drive for DoorDash here.

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by Dash Bridges on March 21, 2019 Leave a Comment

Being a Doordash Driver in 2019 Review – Is It Still Worth It?

Is it still worth it to drive for DoorDash in 2019? Senior RSG contributor and Dasher pro Dash Bridges shares his DoorDash driver review of how DoorDashing has changed over the years, and what you can expect as a Dasher in 2019.

I started Dashing in September, 2015. Do you realize how long ago that was? Our country was immersed in ‘Straight Outta _____’ memes. Kids demanded us to watch them both whip and Nae Nae. Alabama sat at #2 in the college football AP Poll after an upset loss in a bowl game. Oh well, not everything changes.

Regardless, I’m now in the cagey old veteran stage of my dashing career. I’ve been working for DoorDash for 3 ½ years, which is more than half of its existence. As of this writing, I’ve completed 4035 deliveries in 705 dashes (shifts).

In the past, I’ve written about the differences between dashing now vs. dashing then. So to add a fresh wrinkle to the subject, let’s break up my DoorDash driver review into 1000-delivery periods and compare the numbers. There are a few trends to discuss.

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by Dash Bridges on January 23, 2019 Leave a Comment

What It’s Like to Deliver Doordash With a Friend or Family

Have you ever wished you could deliver food with a friend? It sounds great: go out with your friend or spouse, pick up food, chat, maybe earn more than you could on your own. But how does it work? Senior RSG contributor Dash Bridges covers what it’s like to deliver food with a friend below.

Hello, fellow Dashers! It’s been a while and to be honest, my dashing is a little rusty.

But as you may recall, my dashing background is that I dash on the side as a supplement to my regular day job. Several months ago, I was laid off from that job. It wasn’t the best paying job in the world — SOME of us in Silicon Valley are neither venture capitalists nor master coders, ok? – but it was a full-time salaried position with benefits.

Unfortunately, unemployment is a little wonky and, without going on about the details, it actually made more sense given my DoorDash hours/earnings and unemployment benefits to… not work. Yeah.

Obviously, I’m searching for a full-time salaried job. My unemployment benefits have both a monetary and time limit, and dashing isn’t going to pay all the bills, anyway. Why not let us collect both? It’s a major disincentive to work. These laws are outdated to the modern day multi-job realities. But I digress…

Today I want to share my experience dashing with a friend – the goal is to bring a second person along to make the delivery process more efficient. Doesn’t it seem convenient? Your colleague drops you off right at the restaurant and residence door, then swings back around to pick you up. Or vice versa. What a concept! But does it really work?

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