A WOMAN who works as a food delivery driver for companies Uber Eats, Deliveroo and Just Eat has left people stunned by revealing how much she makes on each order.
Atlanta has made delivering her full-time job, and has been doing it for the past four years.
She’s also been sharing videos documenting the best and worst bits of her job on her social media pages.
And she recently posted a video on TikTok which showed how much she earned over a 6 hour shift in Littlehampton, West Sussex.
She explained that she made £39.82 through Uber Eats, £55.99 on Deliveroo and £7.92 on Just Eat.
That made a total of £103.73 which, over six hours, meant she made £17.20 an hour.
Once the tips were added in – a pretty measly £7 for the entire shift – it worked out at £18.40 per hour.
However, Atlanta did note that she drove for 90 miles during the six hours.
As an estimate, using the UK average cost for petrol per mile, and judging by her car – a Mini – Atlanta probably spent around £15.59 on petrol for the shift.
That means she probably made around £15.80 per hour – still a lot more than the UK minimum wage, which will be rising to £11.44 an hour for over 21’s in April.
She also has to take into consideration insurance and road tax, but would most probably still be making more than the hourly minimum wage rate.
In the comments section of another of her TikTok videos, in which she detailed how much she’d earned for a 2.75 hour shift (£43.23), one person wrote: “£17 an hour before expenses, is way better than min wage, so good on you!”
“50% above min wage just to drive a car at your own pace in your own time is good money.”
But not everyone agreed, as someone else argued: “No sick pay, no holiday pay, no pension.
“Petrol and wear and tear.
“Better off working for living wage!”
“It’s the type of job where you think you make money but you really don’t,” another said.
“Why do it? You would’ve spent that on fuel,” a third commented.
To which Atlanta replied: “You think I spent £43 in under 3 hours delivering?
“I’ve been delivering 4 and a half years; I think I know the costs involved.”
As someone else added: “It’s likely she used maybe £5 fuel, double this to then cater for the other costs based on mileage like maintenance and devaluation of car.
“At most it costs her £10 for this shift, which still leaves her earning £12 a hour for driving her car around.”
In another video on her YouTube page, Atlanta detailed a day working in the rain, as she showed some of the jobs she got.
She admitted it was “busier” when it was raining, as people don’t want to be going out themselves, and she even picked up a £3.27 order from a local Tesco.
The shop was 2.1 miles away, and she then had to drive the order to the customer, who was just 0.2 miles away from the Tesco.
“I don’t mind, if this takes me like 5 minutes total, then it’s so easy for £3,” she said in the video.
“I have been doing deliveries for a long time and I reject every order if it’s under £4,” one person commented on the YouTube clip.
“Aw really? How come if it’s quick to do?” Atlanta asked.
To which the person replied: “Sometimes I will take them if it’s like one stop/morrisons order and over at least £3.50.
“But usually I know I can get a better order.
“Plus the delivery companies keep putting their prices down.”
However, things are going from success to success for Atlanta.
As well as upping her social media content, she’s also starting her own podcast, where she’ll reveal more tales from her delivering jobs.
