Buenos Aires
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)
Source: Fairwork Argentina 2025 ratings
What would you take home in Buenos Aires?
Take-home, weekly
$45
Take-home, monthly
$195
Gross, weekly
$84
Gross, monthly
$364
With a 1BR apartment outside the city centre at $527/mo, rent costs more than your monthly take-home (270% 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 81 hours per week. Rent at $527 per month is 109 percent of gross monthly earnings, which puts a Buenos Aires 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 203 percent. Affordable rent at this earnings rate, defined by HUD as no more than 30 percent of gross income, would be around $150 per month. Across the 46 cities in the dataset, Buenos Aires ranks 43rd for hours needed to cover rent, where lower is better.
Pay vs. local labour market
Gross hourly is 100% of local minimum wage, 38% 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.
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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/argentina/ · archived