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see the full file on DoorDash dashers| Guaranteed earnings floor | NEW YORK CITY ONLY. DCWP's Minimum Pay for Food Delivery Workers rule, adopted under Local Law 115 of 2021 and effective 12 July 2023, is the first minimum pay standard for app delivery work in the US. It phases in at $17.96 an hour in 2023, $18.96 from 1 April 2024 and $19.96 from 1 April 2025, before inflation adjustment. An app can comply the Standard way - paying each worker at least the rate for their own trip time, with total payments across all workers covering trip time PLUS on-call time - or the Alternative way, paying a higher per-trip rate (the rate divided by a 60% utilisation figure) and nothing for on-call time. Under the Alternative Method the waiting is unpaid, which DCWP states plainly. Tips are on top. None of this applies outside New York City. |
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| Benefits for contractors | CALIFORNIA ONLY, and it is a threshold benefit. Proposition 22 (Business and Professions Code s7454-7455) requires a quarterly HEALTHCARE SUBSIDY from the network company: average 25 or more hours of engaged time a week over a calendar quarter and you get at least 100% of the average ACA contribution toward a Covered California premium; average 15 to under 25 hours and you get 50%; below 15 hours of engaged time a week, nothing. The company may demand proof you are actually enrolled in a health plan. The same law requires occupational accident insurance covering medical expenses up to $1,000,000 and disability payments of 66% of average weekly earnings for up to 104 weeks, plus accidental death cover for dependants - but only for injuries while online with the platform. |
| Schedule protection | CALIFORNIA. Under Proposition 22 (Business and Professions Code s7451) a Dasher's independence - and the company's exemption from employment law - depends on DoorDash not prescribing specific dates, times of day or a minimum number of hours logged in, and not requiring a Dasher to accept any specific delivery request to keep platform access. In other words, the freedom to decline work is the legal condition of the arrangement in California. There is no guaranteed schedule and no guaranteed volume of offers on the other side of it. |
| How you are engaged | DoorDash calls them Dashers and engages them under an Independent Contractor Agreement, which you accept at sign-up before you have done a single delivery. DoorDash's own framing of the deal: 'You decide when, where, and how much you work' with no office and no boss, and you choose whether to accept each offer. Pay is per offer - base pay set by estimated time, distance and desirability, plus promotions and 100% of tips - or, if you switch to earning by time, a minimum guaranteed hourly rate for time spent actively on a delivery. |
| No experience needed | No experience is required and the documentation is light - a driver's licence or other ID if you dash by bike, and a social security number for the background check - but the AGE GATE varies by state and is the thing to check first. The floor is 18 in most of the US; it is 19 in Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, Texas, Utah and West Virginia; and 21 in CALIFORNIA. You also need a car, scooter or (in select cities) a bicycle. |
| Works around classes | No shifts and no rota to negotiate: DoorDash's own pitch is that you decide when, where and how much you work, with no office and no manager, and you choose whether to accept each offer. For someone fitting work around classes that is the point of the job. The other half of it is that nothing is guaranteed - there is no minimum number of offers, so an evening you keep free may not be worth dashing. |
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