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income calculator.
Plug in your hours and platform mix. We will show what you would take home and what the bike costs to keep on the road. Built for riders on Uber Eats and DoorDash across Australia.
Most delivery rider income pages are vague on purpose. We are not. The tool below takes four inputs (hours per week, average hourly rate, weeks active per year, what the bike costs you) and shows your projected take-home before tax.
Defaults are pulled from publicly reported bike-rider earnings on Uber Eats and DoorDash through 2024 and 2025. Tweak them to your own city, your own platform mix, your own peak discipline. This is a planning tool, not a guarantee. Your week will look different from the average week, that is the point of the sliders.
Hours, hourly rate, weeks active, weekly bike cost. The output updates as you drag.
Defaults are mid-range bike-rider numbers reported across AU capitals. Move the sliders to match your reality.
Adjust for how hard you plan to ride.
Two platforms cover the vast majority of metro delivery work, and most full-time riders stack both during peak. Numbers below are reported ranges, not company-published rate cards.
Biggest order volume in every AU capital. Surge multipliers in dinner peaks and Friday-Sunday lift the per-order fee meaningfully. The 2026 TWU agreement adds a $31.30/hr floor on engaged time.
Brisbane Uber Eats ridersSmaller order pool than Uber Eats but Peak Pay incentives can stack higher. $2 base per order, scaled by distance, duration and desirability. The 2026 TWU agreement applies the same $31.30/hr engaged-time floor.
Brisbane DoorDash DashersEngaged-time floors come from rider-services agreements between the Transport Workers' Union and each platform, phased from 2026. Engaged time only counts when you have an active order, not while you wait.
The hourly rate on the calculator is only half the picture. These are the levers that separate a $25/hr week from a $42/hr week.
60-70% of order volume lands in two windows per day: 11-2 lunch and 5-9 dinner. Riders who work only those windows clear the same dollar as someone grinding 30 hours including dead time, and burn way less battery and body.
A 24kg purpose-built delivery e-bike beats a 30kg cargo e-bike on completion rate. Lighter bike, more stops per hour, more orders. The cheap 30kg imports from marketplace sites look like a deal until you do four trips an hour instead of six.
Single battery at ~50km real range is fine for a 4-hour shift. If you want to cover lunch and dinner peaks in one session without a mid-shift charge, you need either a dual-battery bike or a spare in the bag. Otherwise you lose the dinner peak to charging.
Running Uber Eats and DoorDash simultaneously is the most common AU rider setup, and it works. Stacking the two big platforms lets you accept whichever offer pays better in the moment, without juggling order conflicts or watching your acceptance score collapse on a third app.
You are a sole trader. Set aside 25% of every payout for income tax, plus GST once you cross the $75,000 turnover threshold. Bike costs, charging, helmet, phone, bag and data are all deductible. A free ATO myDeductions app entry per day saves a tax-time scramble.
A bike that breaks once a month costs you a full week's earnings over a year, even before repair bills. Buy or rent based on parts availability, brake quality and the warranty terms, not the spec sheet's top speed.
Reported gross ranges sit between $20 and $35 per hour on a bike in metro Australia through 2024 and 2025. Bottom of the range is quiet shifts in smaller cities, top is peak Friday and Saturday dinner runs in Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane CBD. Net is lower once you back out bike costs, charging and tax. From 2026 a $31.30/hr engaged-time floor applies on Uber Eats and DoorDash under the TWU agreement, but engaged time only covers the minutes you have an active order.
Yes. Both Australian delivery platforms classify riders as independent contractors and require a valid ABN to onboard. Getting an ABN is free, takes about 15 minutes through the Australian Business Register, and you can usually start riding within a day of approval. You do not need a registered business name or a company structure, sole trader is fine.
Yes, the bike is a work-related expense. If you rent, the weekly fee is deductible in full for the months you actively rode. If you buy outright, you depreciate the bike over its effective life (the ATO currently allows around three years for a delivery e-bike). Other deductible costs: helmet, hi-vis, delivery bag, phone (work-use portion), data, charging electricity, repairs. Keep receipts and a logbook of work-vs-personal trips. Consider a registered tax agent in your first year, they pay for themselves on the first return.
There is no single answer because it depends on city, time and your own discipline. Uber Eats usually wins on order volume in every capital. DoorDash often wins on peak-pay bonuses during Friday-Sunday dinners. The honest take: stack Uber Eats and DoorDash on the same shift, accept whichever offer pays better, and you will outearn anyone on a single app.
For a few peak shifts a week, yes. The maths is: 8-12 hours covering two dinner peaks at $25-$30/hr gross is around $200-$350 a week. After tax, charging and bike-share of fixed costs, that's $130-$240 cash. Worth it if you ride efficiently in peak hours only. Not worth it if you grind 30 hours including dead time, that hourly rate collapses fast.
Each platform provides limited third-party liability cover for the duration of an active order. That does not cover you between orders, it does not cover theft of your own bike, and it does not cover injury to you. Most full-time riders also carry a separate income-protection or accident-and-illness policy through a broker. If you rent a bike through MyEbike, theft and damage cover is included in the weekly with a $150 excess.
The non-marketing answer: a bike with a 50+ km real-world range, a step-through frame for quick mount/dismount at every drop, hydraulic disc brakes, integrated lights and racks, and an Australian dealer who can swap or repair it within 24 hours when something fails. The marketing answer (the one most retailers tell you): a flashy 250W mid-drive city bike with no rack and no Australian support. The first one earns. The second one breaks in month 4 and sits in your garage.
Through MyEbike, no. Our rent-to-own program is Brisbane metro only because every plan includes in-person servicing, swap bikes within 24 hours and workshop pickup from Fortitude Valley. We will not rent into a city we cannot service, that fails the rider on day one when something breaks. Riders in Sydney, Melbourne or other cities can buy one of the same fleet bikes outright, AU-wide shipping from $129.
Brisbane riders can rent and pick up today. Riders anywhere else in Australia can buy outright and have it shipped.
Servicing, insurance and a 24-hour swap are baked into the weekly. If your postcode is inside Brisbane metro, you can be on a delivery run by the time the dinner peak starts.
From $69/wk. Apply in 4 minutes. Brisbane metro postcodes only.
Same delivery-grade fleet, available to ship anywhere in Australia. AU-wide shipping from $129. Tuned by a Brisbane mechanic, boxed for safe transit, set up in 15 minutes with the included tools.
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