Atlanta
LOW · source quality below tier-2
Adjusted to LOW in an earlier verification pass. Cited BLS URL provides general light-truck-driver wages, not gig-delivery-specific. earnings_sample admits the actual figure is from 'Indeed Atlanta DoorDash sample (n=27, low confidence)' blended with Gridwise national. Indeed is a blocklisted aggregator and n=27 is well below any reasonable threshold. The sample text itself says 'treat as directional'. Awaiting re-sourcing from a tier-1/2 Atlanta-specific source. Original rationale: Indeed Atlanta DoorDash Dasher posts (sample n=27, low) cross-checked with BLS OES Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell Metro Area (12060) wage data for SOC 53-3033 Light Truck Drivers (federal labor statistics, very large sample). Gridwise 2025 national tracking includes Atlanta market.
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Earnings (USD per hour)
Source: BLS OES Atlanta-Sandy Springs metro wage data (gig est blended)
What would you take home in Atlanta?
Take-home, weekly
$338
Take-home, monthly
$1,466
Gross, weekly
$473
Gross, monthly
$2,049
With a 1BR apartment outside the city centre at $1497/mo, rent costs more than your monthly take-home (102% of monthly net).
Take-home is gross hourly minus an estimated tax/expense rate per country. See the methodology page for the derivation. This widget assumes you actually work the hours you set. For app-based delivery, a portion of logged-in time is unpaid waiting; the headline rate reflects engaged time only where regulators have defined it.
Cost of living vs. earnings
That works out to roughly 31 hours per week. Rent at $1,497 per month is 55 percent of gross monthly earnings, which puts a Atlanta delivery driver in HUD's “severely cost-burdened” band by the federal definition (over 30 percent of gross income on housing). Measured against net take-home pay, which is what a worker actually has available to spend, the same rent is 77 percent. Affordable rent at this earnings rate, defined by HUD as no more than 30 percent of gross income, would be around $820 per month. Across the 46 cities in the dataset, Atlanta ranks 16th for hours needed to cover rent, where lower is better.
Pay vs. local labour market
Gross hourly is 156% of local minimum wage, 63% of local median.
Notes
Georgia uses federal minimum wage ($7.25/hr). Atlanta a strong DoorDash market per Gridwise; suburban sprawl favors car-based delivery. Atlanta food delivery earnings notably lower than headline $20-25/hr Indeed figures, which include UberX rideshare; pure food delivery typically $14-18/hr per Gridwise.
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Primary earnings source: www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_12060.htm · archived