Is earning $300 in a day a good day financially for most people?
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Anonymous
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Driving 5 hours one way to deliver something.
Then driving 5 hours back to return to where they live. Is offering to pay $300 a fair price? Is earning $300 in a day a good day financially for most people? It is better than staying home all day and earning nothing. That is roughly what tractor long distance trailer drivers earn in a day. |
Anonymous
| Driving your own car and paying for gas? I’ll pass for sure. |
Anonymous
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IRS mileage rate is 70 cents per mile to cover a fair share of the operating costs of the car.
With 5 hours of one way driving, it sounds like the trip might be 250-300 miles one way. So 500 miles of driving would be $350 just for car wear and tear, gas, and insurance. And sometimes a car can be okay for driving around town but not safe to drive hundreds of miles from home base due to risk of permanent failure and needing an expensive repair far from home. I had a car like that once. I sold it as-is to.a friend for $1,000. It lived 1.5 years longer but the engine seized up one day and had to be rebuilt by the next guy who bought the car in non-drivable state for $500. The reason I didn't repair it was that the cost of repairing it was about $4,500 at a mechanic shop. I can definitely come up with scenarios where $30/hr for a total of $300 is a job that a person would turn down. But Uber rips people off all the time. They need cash now vs. preserving the value of their car. They also tend to operate more reliable, cheap to fix cars. Does this address your question? Your post sounds like somebody turned you down. If you find a person who already needs to travel to that place, they might accept a lower payment. That's why carpooling works. |
Anonymous
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$300 for ten hours of work minus car costs. Business reimbursement is $.70 per mile.
5 hours, assuming averaging 50 miles per hour is 250 miles one way. 500 miles would be reimbursed at $350. The $.70 is supposed to cover gas and wear and tear on the car. You are not even covering their costs. |
Anonymous
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Decent pay, but not for 10 hours and not for driving.
Easier ways to make money the same money without experience. |
Anonymous
This. ^ If you are using someone else's vehicle and gas, then it's $30/hr so yeah considered good middle class wages. If you are using your own vehicle and gas, you are barely breaking even after wear and tear on outrageously overpriced vehicle costs these days. |
Anonymous
| It's about 100k. But it's 10 hour days, and driving can be exhausting. As someone else pointed out -- if you are using your own vehicle and gas, the calculation is different ... and it's not good money. |
Anonymous
| Absolutely not. 10 hrs of driving for $300? |
Anonymous
It's nowhere near $100k. It's $1500 for a 5 day week week, and if the person works ever single week with no time off, it's $78,000. Even if the person works 6 days a week, every week for 52 weeks with no time off, it's only $93,600. Math not your strong suit, huh? |
Anonymous
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Gas will cost you $40 minimum, so your making $260.
$260/10 = $26 per hour Most people work 1980 hours per year (including holidays and vacation and sick) that is $51,480/year. It's not awful but I would negotiate they are paying for gas. |
Anonymous
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People seem super confused here.
OP is talking about a one-time errand for someone who doesn't work. Why can't you hire a professional courier service? |
Anonymous
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I was unemployed for a while during Covid and own a 2008 Toyota Prius. I would have jumped at the opportunity.
"for nost people"? No. |
Anonymous
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Confused by reference to tractor trailer drivers.
Is this with their own vehicle for a one off or a truck driver job? |
Anonymous
How do YOU know that’s what OP is talking about? |
Anonymous
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I think you should start with the minimum wage per hour. Then increase that considering the fatigue of driving and cost of gas.
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