Bangalore
MEDIUM · sourced, not yet live-verified
Pending live-verification. The source URLs have not yet been fetched and archived in this round; the city will return to a HIGH classification once that is done. Original rationale: Same BusinessToday investigation (Bangalore originally Fairwork India research base) + Fairwork India 2024 Ratings (Bangalore was original 2019 study city. "Please note that in 2019 India's ratings were only for Bangalore" per fair.work/en/ratings/platforms/india-foodpanda/). 11 platforms evaluated 2024: only bigbasket and Urban Company hit Fair Pay first point. Cross-corroborated by TeamLease India staffing data.
Only HIGH-confidence cities carry a full verification audit. See the methodology for what each tier means.
Earnings (USD per hour)
Source: Fairwork India 2024 ratings
What would you take home in Bangalore?
Take-home, weekly
$23
Take-home, monthly
$100
Gross, weekly
$41
Gross, monthly
$176
With a 1BR apartment outside the city centre at $216/mo, rent costs more than your monthly take-home (216% 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 65 hours per week. Rent at $216 per month is 92 percent of gross monthly earnings, which puts a Bangalore 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 162 percent. Affordable rent at this earnings rate, defined by HUD as no more than 30 percent of gross income, would be around $70 per month. Across the 46 cities in the dataset, Bangalore ranks 39th for hours needed to cover rent, where lower is better.
Pay vs. local labour market
Gross hourly is 140% of local minimum wage, 64% of local median.
Notes
Cross-verified with BusinessToday + Trak.in + Fairwork India 2024 (Swiggy, Zomato, Zepto sections). Outside-of-center rent estimated as 70% of city-center pending Round D1.
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See full source citations for this city on the sources page. Read about how each metric is computed in the methodology.
Primary earnings source: fair.work/en/ratings/india/ · archived