DoorDash will offer its drivers guaranteed hourly pay on top of tips, providing its delivery workers another way to earn money, as part of a series of changes to its platform.
The delivery app’s main competitor, Uber Eats, already pays its workers for every pickup and delivery that is successfully completed, along with a per-mile pay rate. In some U.S. cities, Uber Eats deliverymen can also receive a per-minute rate.
DoorDash announced the change as part of Dash Forward, a product event marking DoorDash’s 10th anniversary. The “earn by time” option will offer hourly minimum pay for the time spent on making deliveries, to provide better incentives to its workers to do smaller deliveries they would have skipped or found to be undesirable….