Net pay per hour after gas
$19.22
Gig Driver Hourly Pay After Gas Calculator
Enter a delivery or rideshare shift's pay, tips, expenses, miles, mpg and gas price to see your net pay per hour and per mile after gas.
Gig Driver Hourly Pay After Gas Calculator
Your shift
Works for one shift, a day or a week. Just make every number cover the same period.
What the shift paid
Base pay and promotions. If the app's total already includes tips, enter that total here and leave Tips at 0.
Only tips that aren't in the gross pay above, cash tips included. Leave at 0 if they're already in it.
Time and distance
From going online to going offline, waiting between orders included. Use decimals for minutes: 5.5 = 5 h 30 min.
Odometer miles for the shift: end reading minus start reading. That counts every mile, including driving between orders.
Gas and costs
Your real mpg, not the sticker rating. To measure it, fill up and note the odometer. At the next fill-up, divide the miles driven by the gallons you pumped.
What you paid per gallon. The US average for regular was $4.48 in the week of Sep 21, 2026 (EIA).
Parking, tolls, a car wash or supplies for this shift. Don't enter gas here; the calculator works it out from miles and mpg.
You kept $19.22 an hour, $4.78 less than the $24.00 an hour you were paid before costs.
Pay per hour before costs
$24.00
Gross pay plus tips, divided by hours
Net for the shift
$96.08
$120.00 pay minus $23.92 in gas and expenses
Gas for the shift
$17.92
$0.19 a mile, 15% of your pay
Net pay per mile
$1.00
Net for the shift divided by miles
Gas isn't counted until you enter miles driven and your mpg.
Before taxes, and car wear isn't included. Not tax advice.
Road44
Driving Hours Tracker & Logger
See net pay for each drive in Road44
Start a drive with one tap or add it afterward. Road44 totals your hours or miles and exports the logbook as a PDF or CSV.
Free · No sign-up needed
Road44, the driving log app mentioned below, is our app. Gas prices and pay figures were checked on EIA, AAA, Gridwise and platform pages in September 2026. This calculator shows pay before taxes and isn't tax advice.
How the calculator works out your pay after gas
It runs three lines of math:
- Gas = miles ÷ mpg × price per gallon
- Net = gross pay + tips, minus other expenses and gas
- Net per hour = net ÷ hours, and net per mile = net ÷ miles
Take the sample shift that's filled in above. $78 of pay plus $42 in tips is $120 for 5 hours, or $24.00 an hour before costs. 96 miles at 24 mpg burns 4 gallons, and at $4.48 a gallon that's $17.92 of gas, about 19¢ a mile. Take off $6 of parking and tolls and you keep $96.08. That's $19.22 an hour and $1.00 a mile.
Gas on its own costs $3.58 an hour ($17.92 ÷ 5), and the $6 of expenses costs $1.20 an hour. Together they make up the $4.78 gap between $24.00 and $19.22.
On rounding: money is worked in cents, and the gas cost is rounded once, to the nearest cent. Per-hour and per-mile figures divide the net in cents and round only at the end. A loss shows as a minus amount, such as -$3.50.
The "pay per hour before costs" tile is the easy number to quote. The gap between it and your net per hour is what gas and other costs took.
Getting each number right
The answer is only as good as the numbers you put in. Here's where to find each one and what to watch out for.
| Input | Where to find it | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|
| Gross pay | The platform's earnings screen for the shift | DoorDash says Dasher pay has three components, tips among them, so a Dasher total includes them. Uber's statement lists trips, promotions and tips. Don't count tips twice. |
| Tips | The same screen, plus any cash | Only what isn't already in gross pay |
| Hours | Your online time. DoorDash calls this dash time: "the entire time between starting a dash and ending a dash." | Active or engaged hours leave out the waiting, which DoorDash calls idle time, so they make the rate look higher |
| Miles | Your odometer at the start and end of the shift | Include the drive to your first pickup and the miles between orders |
| mpg | Fill-up to fill-up: miles driven ÷ gallons pumped | fueleconomy.gov says EPA ratings "may not accurately predict the average MPG you will get" and lists "How & where you drive" among the reasons. Use your measured figure. |
| Gas price | Your receipt | EIA's US regular average was $4.48 in the week of Sep 21, 2026. Local prices vary. |
| Other expenses | Parking and toll receipts | Don't add gas here as well |
Here's a real shift run through the calculator. NerdWallet's Tommy Tindall made $86 over three dashes totaling 6.5 hours and drove 90 miles in a full-size pickup, at about 17 mpg and $3.60 a gallon. Entered here, that's $19.06 of gas and $66.94 net: $10.30 an hour, against $13.23 before gas, and 74¢ a mile. NerdWallet reported $10.31 an hour because it rounded gas to $19 before dividing.
Gas took 22% of that shift's pay, compared with 15% in the sample shift. Gas per mile was only a little higher (21¢ against 19¢). The bigger difference is pay per mile: about $0.96 ($86 ÷ 90) against $1.25 ($120 ÷ 96) in the sample shift.
What pay after gas leaves out
Car wear and ownership. AAA's Your Driving Costs 2026 puts maintenance, repair and tires at 11.7¢ a mile. For a new car driven 15,000 miles a year, the all-in cost is 86¢ a mile once depreciation, insurance, finance charges and fees are counted. AAA's fuel line is 17.3¢ a mile, based on regular gas averaging $4.152 a gallon over the 12 months ending May 2026.
To count wear, add it as a per-mile amount under Other expenses. The FAQ below works through the sample shift that way. Wear is left out by default, so your cash net stays separate and the per-mile allowance is your call.
Taxes. The calculator works before tax. The IRS Gig Economy Tax Center says gig income must be reported on a tax return, even if it comes from part-time, temporary or side work. The IRS standard mileage rate is a deduction standard, not what your car costs to run; the FAQ below gives the 2026 rates. This isn't tax advice. For your own return, check the Tax Center page linked above or ask a tax professional.
A benchmark for your gas share. Gridwise found that in the first quarter of 2026, fuel's share of delivery drivers' pay rose from 11.2% to 15.6%. Its share of rideshare drivers' gross hourly earnings rose from 13.2% to 17.4%, the highest since 2022.
Compare those with the "% of your pay" line under the gas tile. A share well above them points to low mpg, long miles per order or low pay per mile.
Track your net pay every shift in Road44
Road44 is the driving log we built, and its Earnings mode uses the same formula as this calculator. Choose Earnings as your goal metric and Road44 nets every drive as gross pay plus tips, minus expenses and fuel. The home screen shows your net for all time, this month or this week, and the calendar shows each day's net. Both are free.
- Log each shift as one drive, so its hours match what you'd enter here. Start a live drive when you go online and hold to stop when you go offline. The timer keeps running in the background and through app restarts. Or add a past drive with its start and end times.
- Distance comes from start and end odometer readings, or a distance you type in.
- Fuel cost is a field you fill in for each drive. Road44 doesn't work it out from mpg, so enter the gas figure from this calculator or your receipt. You can log the gallons you add, too.
- With Road44 Pro, the Insights screen's Efficiency card shows gross, tips, expenses, fuel cost and net, plus net per hour and net per mile, for all drives or the last 7, 30 or 90 days. The Fuel card shows fuel economy from the distance and fuel you log, which gives you a real mpg to use here. Recurring weekly and monthly goals, such as a weekly net target, are Pro too.
- Purpose chips (Business, Personal, Commute, Medical) tag each drive. History and export are free: Text, CSV, PDF or PNG, with no watermark.
Road44 is a personal record, not an official or certified logbook, and not tax advice. Drives stay on your phone, and there's no account to set up.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about gig driver hourly pay after gas calculator
How much do delivery drivers make per hour after gas?
It depends on your pay, tips, mpg and how many miles you drive in an hour. Food On Demand, reporting Gridwise data, put delivery drivers' after-gas pay at $13.04 an hour in March 2026, down 8.8% from $14.29 as gas prices rose. Gridwise also found that fuel's share of delivery pay rose from 11.2% to 15.6% in the first quarter of 2026. The calculator's sample shift has a similar gas share: $17.92 of gas on $120 of pay is 15%. Its $19.22 an hour is above that March average, so don't take it as typical. Enter your own shift to get your number.
How do I work out the gas cost of one shift?
Divide the miles by your mpg, then multiply by the price per gallon. 96 miles at 24 mpg is 4 gallons, and at $4.48 a gallon that's $17.92. Price divided by mpg gives your gas cost per mile: $4.48 ÷ 24 is about 19¢. Use odometer miles for the whole shift and your measured mpg, because fueleconomy.gov says EPA ratings "may not accurately predict the average MPG you will get." This estimates the gas the shift burned, which isn't the same as what you paid at your last fill-up.
Should I enter tips separately?
Only if the gross pay you enter leaves them out. DoorDash says Dasher pay has three components: base pay, promotions and tips. Uber's weekly statement lists earnings from trips, promotions and tips. If you copy a total that already includes tips, put it in Gross pay and leave Tips at 0, or the tips get counted twice. Tips that aren't in that total, like cash tips, go in the Tips box.
Should I count active hours or all my hours online?
To see what your time earned, count all of it, from going online to going offline, waiting included. Platform figures often divide by the smaller number. Lyft reported a median $30.68 gross per engaged hour for the second half of 2023, counting only time on the way to a pickup or with a passenger. Dividing the same pay by online hours gives a lower figure that includes the waiting. The calculator divides by whatever hours you enter, so use the same kind of hours every time you compare shifts.
Why is my net pay negative?
Your gas and other expenses came to more than your pay and tips. Take a shift that paid $20, with $10 of parking and tolls and 60 miles at 20 mpg and $4.50 a gallon ($13.50 of gas). It nets -$3.50, or -$1.75 an hour over 2 hours. The calculator shows a loss as a minus amount instead of hiding it, so you can spot the shifts that cost you money.
Does the result include wear and tear on my car?
No. It counts gas and the expenses you enter, the money that left your pocket that day. AAA's Your Driving Costs 2026 puts maintenance, repair and tires at 11.7¢ a mile. It puts the total cost of owning and running a new car at 86¢ a mile at 15,000 miles a year, including depreciation, insurance and finance costs. To include wear, multiply your miles by a per-mile figure and add it to Other expenses. In the sample shift, 96 miles × 11.7¢ is $11.23, which takes net pay from $19.22 to $16.97 an hour.
Should I use the IRS mileage rate instead of my gas cost?
Not for this number. The IRS business standard mileage rate is 72.5¢ a mile for January 1 to June 30, 2026 and 76¢ a mile for July 1 to December 31, 2026. It's a tax deduction rate, set from a yearly study of the fixed and variable costs of running a car, not what you paid for gas. This calculator shows the cash you kept before tax, so it uses your gas cost. It doesn't estimate or set aside any tax, and it isn't tax advice. For tax questions, start with the IRS Gig Economy Tax Center.
Can I use it for a whole day or week?
Yes, as long as every box covers the same period: a week's pay, tips, expenses, miles and hours. The gas figure comes from miles and mpg, not from receipts, so it doesn't matter when you filled up. A week of 812 miles and 38.75 hours works just as well as a single 5-hour shift.