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They may not be lying - that could be raw revenue. Unlike white collar jobs driving a car for a living comes with a lot of costs that kill your actual take-home
by potatolicious 12y ago
They may not be lying - that could be raw revenue. Unlike white collar jobs driving a car for a living comes with a lot of costs that kill your actual take-home income, far above and beyond just taxes.
Maintenance, repairs, insurance, and gas are all direct costs that don't really improve with economies of scale. Car payments too - though white collar workers may also be hit with that, but probably less so.
I think there's a bit of deliberate obfuscation here where Uber wants you, the office worker, to think of that $90K without all the strings attached, in which case it would be a pretty decent income.
- waterlesscloud 12y agoEven if it's raw revenue...where are the 100s of drivers making that much that Uber claims exist?
- saalweachter 12y agoCould this be, hmm, not so much lying as willful ignorance? There are probably middle-men in the Uber industry just as there are middle-men in the taxi industry, who own a car and pay people to drive it with Uber. If they have one account per car, the account could me making $100k / year via driving 24/7, and Uber could be choosing to believe that these accounts represent a single self-employed driver.
- shalmanese 12y agoBeing a middleman would be extremely hard as you have to provide a profile picture and passengers use the picture to verify they have the correct driver.