Bogotá
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: Fairwork Colombia 2022 Ratings ("Rising Cost of Living and Decent Incomes in the Platform Economy") in Fairwork published list. Plus Rappi spokesperson Márquez via El Colombiano + Rappi CEO Borrero via El Tiempo + Noticias RCN Rappi rates analysis. company-disclosed data via 3 independent press sources. Plus Tilburg Law Review Nov 2025 (Unidapp + Rappi 2024 first agreement on minimum remuneration via Min of Labour mediation). COP 6,750/hr × $0.000244 = $1.65.
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Earnings (USD per hour)
Source: El Tiempo: Rappi CEO Borrero on Bogotá rider pay
What would you take home in Bogotá?
Take-home, weekly
$34
Take-home, monthly
$146
Gross, weekly
$50
Gross, monthly
$214
With a 1BR apartment outside the city centre at $366/mo, rent costs more than your monthly take-home (251% 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 75 hours per week. Rent at $366 per month is 128 percent of gross monthly earnings, which puts a Bogotá 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 189 percent. Affordable rent at this earnings rate, defined by HUD as no more than 30 percent of gross income, would be around $90 per month. Across the 46 cities in the dataset, Bogotá ranks 41st for hours needed to cover rent, where lower is better.
Pay vs. local labour market
Gross hourly is 63% of local minimum wage, 59% of local median.
Notes
Colombia minimum wage COP 1,423,500/month (2026). Rappi was founded in Bogotá and dominates the local market alongside iFood and Uber Eats.
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Primary earnings source: www.eltiempo.com/cultura/gente/cuanto-gana-un-repartidor-con-la-aplicacion-de-rappi-esto-dice-la-empresa-799289 · archived