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🇦🇷Argentina · Upper-middle income · 2026-Q3

Buenos Aires

43composite score · #29 of 50

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 Argentina 2022 Ratings ("Labour Standards in the Platform Economy") in published reports list at fair.work/en/fw/fairwork-reports/ (Argentina ratings page exists at fair.work/en/ratings/argentina/). Evaluates PedidosYa/Rappi rider rates.

Only HIGH-confidence cities carry a full verification audit. See the methodology for what each tier means.

Earnings (USD per hour)

Net, after tax & expensesn/a
Gross$3.04/hr

Source: Chequeado, radiografia de los repartidores de apps en Argentina (Apr 2026)

What would you take home in Buenos Aires?

30hrs

Take-home, weekly

n/a

Take-home, monthly

n/a

Gross, weekly

$91

Gross, monthly

$395

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

Hours of work for one month's rent (1BR outside centre)321 hours
Rent, 1BR outside centre$511/mo
Restaurant meal (mid-range)$19.02

Pay vs. local labour market

Minimum wage$1.24/hr
Median wage (all occupations)$2.67/hr

Gross hourly is 245% of local minimum wage, 114% of local median.

Notes

FX volatile. figures snapshot at collection-week start. Outside-of-center rent estimated as 70% of city-center pending Round D1.