Delivery drivers
Delivery minimum acceptable offer
Calculate the displayed offer needed to cover a full route and your chosen pre-tax hourly earnings target.
Your inputs
Complete the fields for your selected method. Zero means intentionally zero, not unknown. Currency selection labels amounts; it does not convert exchange rates.
How this calculation works
required shown amount = route operating expense + target hourly net × total elapsed hours - separately known unincluded receipts
Use the amount shown to the driver; it may already include tips or platform deductions. Add only amounts not already included. Include pickup, delivery, waiting and allocated unpaid return travel. Results are before income taxes and describe the supplied scenario, not promised platform earnings. The target is your own decision threshold, not a wage promise. Do not subtract hoped-for tips as confirmed receipts. If known extra receipts already cover the target, required additional displayed amount is zero. This does not decide platform acceptance rules.
What information do I need?
Use records for the same job, equipment or accounting period. Only the fields for your selected entry method are required. An unknown amount is not zero.
Input definitions and where to find them
- Pickup and repositioning distance (mi): Own cost/mile, all-in time/distance and chosen compensation target. Owner records or explicit assumption; no account connection or maintained rate tables required.
- Loaded delivery distance (mi): Own cost/mile, all-in time/distance and chosen compensation target. Owner records or explicit assumption; no account connection or maintained rate tables required.
- Allocated unpaid return distance (mi): Own cost/mile, all-in time/distance and chosen compensation target. Owner records or explicit assumption; no account connection or maintained rate tables required.
- Total elapsed minutes including pickup waiting delivery and return (minutes): Own cost/mile, all-in time/distance and chosen compensation target. Owner records or explicit assumption; no account connection or maintained rate tables required.
- Your entered vehicle operating cost per total mile (selected currency): Own cost/mile, all-in time/distance and chosen compensation target. Owner records or explicit assumption; no account connection or maintained rate tables required.
- Other trip expenses (selected currency): Own cost/mile, all-in time/distance and chosen compensation target. Owner records or explicit assumption; no account connection or maintained rate tables required.
- Your chosen net hourly target before income tax (selected currency): Own cost/mile, all-in time/distance and chosen compensation target. Owner records or explicit assumption; no account connection or maintained rate tables required.
- Confirmed receipts NOT included in the displayed offer (selected currency): Own cost/mile, all-in time/distance and chosen compensation target. Owner records or explicit assumption; no account connection or maintained rate tables required.
Use the Where to find this value controls beside the inputs for available work-it-out helpers. Estimates remain your assumptions; a helper does not verify the source figures.
Worked example
Example amounts use US dollars (USD).
Example answer: Minimum displayed offer at entered target is $16.03 for the illustrative inputs below.
Example inputs
- Pickup and repositioning distance: 2.00 mi
- Loaded delivery distance: 5.00 mi
- Allocated unpaid return distance: 2.00 mi
- Total elapsed minutes including pickup waiting delivery and return: 40.00 minutes
- Your entered vehicle operating cost per total mile: $0.30
- Other trip expenses: $0.00
- Your chosen net hourly target before income tax: $20.00
- Confirmed receipts NOT included in the displayed offer: $0.00
- Minimum displayed offer at entered target
- $16.03
- Entered route operating expense
- $2.70
- Time-value target for the full route
- $13.33
These illustrative values are not recommended rates or industry averages. Replace every example input with your own figures.
Use the result well
Find pay corresponding to chosen compensation target.
Keep inputs on the same scope and time basis. Calculations retain precision internally; displayed values generally round to two decimal places, with extra precision for very small values and whole-unit rounding where required. Economic comparisons describe your supplied assumptions and do not guarantee future results.
This tool provides business arithmetic. It does not approve engineering designs, establish legal or tax treatment, select equipment or certify safe operating conditions.