#Family guy uber driver episode drivers

Incentives: This is where experience seemed to really payoff. What surprised me most though was that surge was such a small portion of all rides! Basically it was 1.03X surge. Surge: Apparently experience plays a part in getting surge pricing.

#Family guy uber driver episode drivers

I like to think that more experienced drivers are just more relaxed though. The economists guess that more experienced drivers hangout in congested areas because they’re more profitable. Speed: Men drove faster than women, but what I found surprising here was that as experience increased, average speed went down.

Trip Distance: Although there seems to be an increase in trip distance, the difference is quite low, probably because we don’t have much control of that. There’s a complicated table measuring ride rejections. Selective Reject/Canceling: This is on page 21 of the study, but basically it covers how those with more experience cancel more often to avoid bad passengers and unprofitable rides. I think this might be from selectively rejecting rides with long ETAs (like rides that are 15+ minutes away). Selective Accepting: As drivers gained more experience, their distance from accept-to-pickup went down. This is probably a result of knowing where to go to get their next ride faster over time. Noobs Wait Longer: The chart above shows that both men and women have lower wait times between rides as they progress in experience. Related: You Can Find Driving Strategies and More in The Rideshare Guide It also showed that experienced drivers were more likely to cancel and reject their calls strategically. The Gender Gap study showed that those who had given 2500 or more rides earned on average 14% more than those with fewer than 100 rides (pg 18). Drivers With 2500 Rides Earn 14% More Than Noobs This graph also shows a significant amount of drivers who have been driving for Uber longer than 2 years. We see that most drivers have been driving for less than six months (week 26).Īlso, a ton of drivers give up after their first month, which may be a combination of reaping the sign-up bonus or the experience not living up to expectations.

One graph in this study took a look at the seniority of all the Uber drivers who gave a trip in January 2017. Winter “Warm Up” February 2016 – April 2016: Uber offered hourly guarantees + Quest Earnings + Boost zones all at the same time. We would like to think that our article helped all of you “hack” them and contribute to the big increase on that graph 😉 Winter “Warm Up” February 2015 – April 2015: During this period, Uber offered Average Hourly Guarantees and other incentives to drive after cutting rates in January. Uber often launches pay promotions after cutting prices or as part of their old “Winter Warm-Up” strategy. In addition to seeing January dips, we see February spikes. You’ll also see that pay dipped a lot in January 2017, so it’s unclear what portion of this is a result of seasonality or a result of drivers having their pay cut. In both of those years, Uber cut driver pay (the rate card) by about 15% nationwide. Notice that January 2015 and January 2016 start off with a huge dip in hourly pay. January Earnings Dip: Price Cuts or Seasonal? This leaves us drivers with roughly ~$10.80-11.86/hr. The study goes on to make an educated guess (page 38) that those costs come out to around $5/hour. That’s still before gas, car washes, food, insurance, depreciation, etc. Related: How Does Upfront Pricing Factor Into All of This? So if we assume 20-25% commission, the gross earnings of drivers is a lot closer to $15.80-$16.86. The study calculated the hourly pay for drivers as $21.07/hr in gross earnings but that is before Uber’s commission. So Uber is retaining only 31.9% of its drivers after just 6 months, but due to their generous active driver definition, that number is probably even lower! Average Hourly Pay Was Only Around $16/Hour A lot of my friends have done one or two shifts in the last 26 weeks and I don’t know if that would make them “ active drivers” in my book. If you went out and gave a single ride within that 26 week period, that “inactivity timer” would start over again. You see, inactive drivers in the study were defined as those who hadn’t given a single ride in the last 26 weeks. But the numbers are probably even worse since it all depends on how you define an active driver. Within 26 weeks of giving their first ride, 65% of male and 76.5% of female drivers were considered inactive. Uber Had 1,873,474 Drivers in February of 2017 I’ll outline some of the most interesting data points below. You see, getting to the conclusion of why women earned 7% less per hour than men required the economists to unpack a lot of other data about driving.