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.
