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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have had two female Uber drivers -- one was during the day and the other was at night -- and both were nice and seemed to love it.

When I visited NYC and used Uber a couple of drivers there said it was their only income and claimed they were making six figures doing it. Is that possible? [/quote]

People who are good at this tend to enjoy it.  Drivers frustrated over money don't make for very happy people.

A BLACK driver? Possibly.  uberX driver nowadays? No.  In the old days on uberX at $2.50/mile?  Maybe.  Someone on uberpeople ran the numbers on making $80,000/yr on current DC rates and it was something crazy like driving 4,300 hours and 75,000 miles in a year.  That's about 12 hours/day X 365.  Completely impossible.  The problem is that there are only a few insanely profitable hours to work in a week but a ton of dead hours (middle of the night and middle of the workday during the week).  When uber does their "uber math" they extrapolate that really high earning potential across the entire year to lure in new drivers on "possible incomes of up to $80k/year*".

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