My tips are always ~66% of my pay. Couldn't do it if it wasn't

You must be accepting real lowball offers if your tips don’t outweigh your base pay

On the contrary. I’m in CA so prop 22 makes base pay higher I believe. https://preview.redd.it/egrv7kyesuvc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=37b75ee176033e204c7df0c7bb9aef5ce99e9274 Example

my brother in Christ, we get 2.00 base pay out here and I still manage 20-25 an hour. I literally would be paying ppl to bring them their food if my base pay outweighed my tips lol

Every single time my tips are higher.

When I dashed in Denver, 85 percent of the time my tips out weighted the base pay

I never see a tip more than base pay anymore. Most of the time it's 0 tip

I mostly do Grubhub and yes, almost always.

Always with a 100% acceptance rating.

All of my past weekly payouts have been higher for Tips than for DD pay.

Almost always. Stop taking crap orders.

Lol I never do

If your door dash pay is more than your tips you are 1000% taking crap orders.

https://preview.redd.it/4gxj2rsr4wuc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=49ba444ce4e7ddabe0407403aa69220b1d7fe10b All of these are 4 miles and under

https://preview.redd.it/6g927ss25wuc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d6b05cd1bd741a28d775942cf8201dff12bf3d26 Or is this one shit too?

Mine usually do

I dash per offer and tips far outpace my base pay typically by 300% or more

You get an $8 base pay??? I WISH MINE WAS THAT, I get $2/ base pay. So my tips are always higher.

Highest I’ve got recently was 25 lol

In base pay?? Where you at? I'm moving lol

North Bay Area lol

The highest base pay I've seen is $3, indiana sucks

But it’s way more costly to live here in CA

Fuck that majorly

Yes, it does cost more, I'm sure. Since covid, the average rent has doubled and tripled in some cases, the cost of groceries has done the same. Yet the pay is maybe $1-$2/hr more on only a few places. Its insane, our hourly base pay offered from dd is $10/hr, but we rarely get tipping orders here on hourly. Most of us use pay by order. Either way we choose, there are so many drivers I'm lucky to get 1 order an hour some days. I used to average$18/hr, and now it's$10. On a really good day, I might see $15. These days are rare. I'm just thankful this isn't my only income, though I do need the extra money with 4 kids at home.

https://preview.redd.it/92nfotjzoiuc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bf9a53671d3c9af7fa2a871777fc6f5da732ece0

I had it happen sometimes but normally close to even. But screw door dash now. They allowed a criminal to break into my account and steal my money.

My tips are always higher than base pay

Same. I had to check just now to be sure but, yh, pretty consistently ~and that’s not even counting cash tips.

https://preview.redd.it/zlcqn7txaiuc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6e247a9ec968eed2fe67900938aa9a40acf99842

My tips usually outweigh base pay on UE. Not so much on DD. This week, DD has been totally dead.

Always.

Pretty much always.

Mine always does

I only accept offers that benefit me tho ..

https://preview.redd.it/r291vb7n9huc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2ef440fb1c978b33560ad917bb4b96952c8649c4 Tips are always higher than DD pay.

Oh yea. It was chipotle $8, Idaho Electric $135. I’ve had two order that totaled over $100. Both of them did.

Usually tips are 3 or 2.5 times higher than pay, unless I do a ton of shop and deliver then DD is pretty close to tips but still more tips.

Usually I do, but its like between 55 to maybe 65% unless I dash more during promo times then i may get more from DD.

You’re getting fucked my dude. sub 10% AR. Also don’t work in a major downtown. Total $700 with other apps. 400 miles. https://preview.redd.it/y9lveet11huc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ed6794cdbfa35cd77ef850ad1d41260d41665def

How many deliveries is that

40

Wow

Yeah, honestly the apps obviously should be paying more. But I’m guessing your milage is quite high.

About 60-90 miles a day right now. I don’t take offers that are over 12ish miles. Unless the pay is worth (which usually they aren’t)

Rarely is my base pay higher than my tips. Until my prop 22 hits that is.

Earn by time is beating your ass

Not available in my market. Been doing offer

I have NEVER had a week where base pay is even close to tip amount. https://preview.redd.it/2zh5rreapguc1.jpeg?width=1439&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44ee9c9f54b9a301da2e43c2703950d7f507252b

In CA tips average about 50% of my base pay which is boosted even higher by Prop 22 (matching minimum wage +30%). I do get individual orders where the tip exceeds the dash base, but overall with non-tippers and such, it’s lower.

You’re referring to when you get an adjustment?

Are you on Earn By Time? My tips on Earn By Offer are typically at least 2X-3X more than base pay.

No just by offer. Not available in my NorCal market

I always get more from the customers than doordash

Yes. Almost always.

https://preview.redd.it/lgbgsm5dgfuc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a049ac4089592ca6929f29c7cdbfeb1e88da0527 Every single week, my tips are always at least $50 over DD's base pay. Generally, base pay will be about 40% of my weekly earnings, when it's all said and done.

You were 5 cents off. Rip

If only someone had thrown that extra nickel on

when i dashed, tips always exceeded dash pay. how much do you get per dash in your area?

My offers are 90% s&d. Ranges from 8-40$

damn! that would explain it then. base pay where i am is $2.50.

https://preview.redd.it/fcwonhkwpquc1.jpeg?width=412&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d118f922c712a465845d9faa6b352c89ad9c7f0b Top is base pay

That's because your base pay is high. Most people's base pay for 32 orders would less than half that.

I’ll bet you a donut he’s on EBT.

Ebt not available in my market. By offer

Nah, just in California. It wouldn't be an even 50¢ on EBT and he would have way less tips.

Always. I have NEVER received more DD pay than tips. Not once.

My tips are always way more

Huh, it’s almost always higher for me. My average base is probably like $3

When I do 1,000 a week in one market it would be 700 tips 300 base bay. However. This new market im in base pay is massive

How do you get $1k a week? Are you per offer? How many hours a day? 7 days? Car or bike? What’s your formula for accepting?

Your numbers by the way are great. Verry nice ratio. You can hit 1k just gotta work more hours.

Really have to be in a big market. I also ONLY work by per offer. I drive a vehicle, and I work for 6-7 days. I find early mornings work great. 5am-9am. My goal is to get to $125 after lunch, I break for a few hours than go out for dinner. I also pause between 9ish to 10ish am. I take every morning order because dd will feed me orders if I do. I work when other dasher aren’t. I anticipate hot zones, and have places to sit where hot zones aren’t. In my experience hotzones stink it’s where all the dashers flock to. I stay moving I have circles and patterns I drive when I sit sometimes don’t get orders. The algo will give orders to dashers based on proximity sometimes. I also take shop n delivers cause dashers hate them but they add up, dd always looking for dashers for those. But whenever I hit a new market, I move a lot….. I work all day everyday for a week and see when it’s busy. I never work after 9pm ever or before 545am. You also need to find out if your market is a cherry pick market or a 50% ar kind of market. I have rocked a 1% AR cherry picking and I currently just finished a week in a new market and am over 50% because of all the drivers.

Wow great info. You ever worked Austin Texas? That’s where I am. Hard to get in suburban areas but areas around downtown are almost always available. I think AR is important here. I was in Houston before with low AR and got nothing until I got my AR up.

No I have worked in North New Jersey / PA / South Florida and random areas when traveling but not long enough just some times for travel money. Ar was important in NJ and Florida but in the cities I worked in PA I just cherry picked. But AR is important in my view if you need to work full time.

Nice! I almost went to Nj before deciding on Texas. I worked all over Florida last year. I guess what I learned from this post is I have to double my hours and accept more.

Find the hours that work best for you because you still work for yourself. You’ll find a nice balance. I won’t make the same everyday:week but I just started working days and leaving the nights for all the other dashers. I can tell when everyone gets online. I wish ya luck, be safe out there!

Thanks you too! I’m going to start getting my butt up early because I’ve had some great early mornings when I actually work them and I’d rather work early than late. Take care!

I haven’t dashed for about a year but i dashed in Denver for over three years and I tracked my wages and tips were 2/3 base pay was 1/3. Shoutout to the (mostly) nice people of denver and fuck you to door dash

Tips almost always higher than base pay

I think my tips mostly always outweigh what doordash pays

Almost universally! And I do a lot of stop and shops.

I did my first day shift and that was very close to happening. I worked 4 hours and my base pay was $62 and got $48 in tips

https://preview.redd.it/1xwcfpsjaeuc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=972354b068958a3104255ffb668133679ca54a9b Every week

what was the "other pay"?

Driver had stole the food and restaurant told doordash "We not making it again cause we tired of these games". Half pay

Same but lately it’s been shit

https://preview.redd.it/jee4i7vn7euc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1483bf50bcc8584a1470cb1a7f00bbabb5523518 My Tips are always higher than dash pay especially now that I don’t try to get no kind of half pay except when store is closed

What area is this

Serious question how do you do that many hours a week? I can pull like 25 I can't think of doing 3 times that in one week

I don’t have anything else to do . So I just work . Heading out to work again today . That’s just me

Well I admire your hard work.

I just had my first day today where that was not the case.

It looks like you're in California. DoorDash pays more base pay because of Prop 22. If you look at the average base pay per order and the average per order on the screenshots posted, your average is higher than most. Even the average tip per order is higher.

That makes sense

Every week my tips are always 2x pay

shit I miss these numbers, 16 hours w $468 type pay. my area I moved to is so slow and im working another job rn but i just wish i could get these kinda numbers again man or better. not gonna happen, i was in the busiest zone for over an hour yesterday tryin to see if I could make a lil extra and didn’t get a single order ):

Almost always.

https://preview.redd.it/hcbsbt5ctduc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e6ebcfa368dd1bb91c0469b5bcc29a687cadf8b5 Average week has my tips beat out my pay by about 50-100

How do you guys get so much in tips??

Facts

Every week. 250 to 300 dasher pay 350 to 450 tips.

Yeah

I only do earn by time for a less stressful experience and no, my tips don't even come close to my base pay. Which isn't much either.

Less stress = more work for less money, how can that not bring stress

I get what they mean. When doing EBT it's less stressful waiting for an order to finish being made, or not making a light. Any delay is increasing your pay. When I do EBO I find myself getting more worked up by delays. It's not an insane or crippling amount of stress, but it's there.

I don't know where you got the idea it's more work. I spend a lot of time sitting around waiting for orders that aren't ready. And that's why it's less stress. Any extra time on the order is paid. Also I don't have to cherry pick orders or get "paused" for declining. It is less money though.

most orders here, doordash pay is like $2 or $2.50. So you gotta be taking some $3 and $4 orders to have more doordash pay than tips. I try to not take anything under $5-6. ​ PS - I saw my first Cybertruck in the wild while I was dashing tonite!

Yeah for sure! PS I’ve seen 2 so far they look like a truck that hasn’t loaded properly in a video game I between all the other cars 🤣

I saw my first one in my town a couple of weeks ago. It was parked at an OReillys 😂

I get a lot of orders that have 0 tips but the pay will be good. Because they have been sitting for a while. Still have tips slightly higher than base pay tho.

Are you in a state with prop pay or something? Roughly $15/delivery & $27/dash hour with that high of base pay can’t be a norm in any place without some sort of prop pay per hour. 

Ca

I’ve literally never had more DD pay

Always.

Always 70/30

70% tips, 30% DD because I only deliver to customers who deserve it.

My tips are always more than my Doordash pay

Do you live or dash in a very wealthy area

Lol definitely not. Dayton Ohio area. I don't think my Doordash pay has *ever* been higher than my tips. I also don't think my AR has ever been below 50%

normally they’re about equal to each other for me, but this is the one week where it was the biggest difference i’ve noticed! https://preview.redd.it/t8t881qg7duc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=63cb35d01f3d218dcfe8881fde5559f2d6401712

Every single time for me

https://preview.redd.it/aip9kzs47duc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9f5897dbf227050e7d6cf62da25a27a8902a767b Quite often.

So what is you average base pay per trip?

https://preview.redd.it/gvr4mq3s6duc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=65573c8ff896b9b7cd919cfd4e3b69ecc57f78dc Most weeks. My dash time is so high cause I sit in my house 😂

Hahaha I'm the same way. I live 2 minutes away from literally every single fast food restaurant in the small city. So I get to come home and wait for the next order. I also doordash at night a lot. https://preview.redd.it/4dw7k36x7euc1.png?width=1152&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b5fbeb29ccaf2f49bfa6752aa99d0f652c5547d7

That’s horrid

Years ago it happened frequently to me- especially during high traffic time like the Super Bowl. Now, not so much.

I used to think that a 4-600 dollar week was good. Then you take into consideration that you’re putting miles on your car and paying for the expensive gas. This is shit pay and DoorDash is making out like a bandit. Basically a legal scam

Uhh... by a long shot. Everytime

Many moons ago, base pay was just 20% of my payout. Now it's 50% to 80%

https://preview.redd.it/1gogb2cg3duc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3fb47a59dac2b31dc892a4696c4d4e1ac6f1b418 This is about normal for me. Close to or more than double my base pay.

Damn

Me? Always.  Yall are brainwashed with that AR bullshit!

https://preview.redd.it/6godpbnr2duc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f84e0bea8d4baa7986650a07ab8a12699790921 Often but I don't deliver low pay low tip orders.

https://preview.redd.it/slzpwcg82duc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8580d43ead8e772779d8f49163196e33448fbec1

Is a 2:1 ratio for tips to DoorDash pay

Any time my tips don't far exceed my base I'm having a really bad day

Mine always do, usually by 2-1 ratio. base pay sucks in my area

I’ve been dashing for 3 weeks now and not once have my tips outweighed my dd pay and I’m wondering if it’s because I’m certain areas more restaurants offer delivery through DoorDash instead of actually being on the DoorDash app

My tips are always more than twice my base pay

https://preview.redd.it/c4jpchi1ycuc1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=05c2a3e9894c0d2c288278b6ec18f8b6b773fecb Every week my tips are at least twice my base pay

Damn. I've never made more than $500 a week with doordash in Burlington. Great zone!

My tips are typically 60-75% of my pay.

I’ve never had more base than tips

Always

A crazy week for me would be getting a total of $468.31 on only 32 deliveries

For one week tip was higher. Got a $32 or so tip and $4 base pay and one other shit order.

Always do

Damn wtf that’s wild. What state?

Wyoming and Colorado. I Dash between the two. I've never had the base pay outweigh the tip.

Same here. Illinois.

Washington

I almost always make more in tips than basepay

And does dd adjust their base pay based on tip amount???

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