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Delivery drivers could get paid $33 an hour in this cityDelivery drivers could get paid $33 an hour in this city

Holly Petre, Assistant Digital Editor

June 13, 2023

 

New York City just passed a minimum wage law for restaurant delivery workers — the first of its kind in the country — that would require app-based food delivery platforms to pay their delivery workers $19.96 per hour, which is almost triple the current $7.09 average rate.

The city’s mayor, Eric Adams, announced Sunday that the new minimum wage would affect app-based restaurant delivery workers that drive or bike-ride over food orders to restaurant customers and that Grubhub, Uber Eats, DoorDash, etc. would have flexibility in how they pay delivery workers the new minimum wage – either paying them per trip, per hour, or via their own formula.

The pay rate will be incrementally raised, starting at $17.96 when the law takes effect on July 12 (0r $.30 cents per minute), and will increase to $19.96 when it is fully phased-in on April 1, 2025, and the pay rates will receive incremental increases based on inflation after that.

About the Author

Holly Petre

Assistant Digital Editor

Holly Petre is a digital editor for Nation’s Restaurant News as well as the host of NRN’s podcast, Extra Serving, and producer for Informa Restaurant and Food Group’s other three podcasts, One On One by Food Management, Off the Shelf with SN and In the Kitchen with Bret Thorn. Holly holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in Sculpture, fibers and Material Studies and Ceramics from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A native New Yorker, Holly enjoys her place on staff as the resident pop-culture expert and millennial with a sassy attitude and great sense of style.

Holly Petre’s work on Nation’s Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality often covers marketing and trends, either aimed-at or examined-through the millennial mindset. Holly is responsible for introducing TikTok and Twitch to NRN and RH readers as well as explaining terms like “Karen” to staff and readers alike. She also spends her time on staff trying not to make every headline a pun.

Holly Petre hasn’t spoken at any events or on panels, but she is readily available with a killer shoe wardrobe and several witty quips.

 

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