New York City’s Gig Driver Pay Standard: Effects on Drivers, Passengers, and the Companies

This report examines New York City’s app-dispatch driver pay standard and finds that in the first year of the pay standard (pre-pandemic) driver pay increased by about nine percent, passenger fares rose slightly but not much more than in Chicago without a pay standard, passenger wait times declined significantly, and some of the pay increase was absorbed by the app-dispatch companies through lower effective commission rates.

Inequality and Poverty, EconomySeth MoncreaseDecember 8, 2020Low-paid wage and gig workers, Report, Covid-19, report