Chicago
MEDIUM · sourced, not yet live-verified
MEDIUM. The one cited source (Gridwise) is a tier-3 industry blog and carries only a national DoorDash median of $11.26/hr; it does not carry the published $18.50/hr, which is an internal blend. Three unsourced third-party hourly figures previously quoted in this field have been removed: none carried a URL, and one was a blocklisted aggregator, which is the reference class that caused the Round A/B demotions. Promote only on a Chicago-specific tier-1/2 source; none is known to exist.
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Earnings (USD per hour)
Source: Internal blended estimate (no Chicago-specific source exists)
What would you take home in Chicago?
Take-home, weekly
n/a
Take-home, monthly
n/a
Gross, weekly
$555
Gross, monthly
$2,405
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
Pay vs. local labour market
Gross hourly is 51% of local minimum wage, 33% of local median.
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Primary earnings source: gridwise.io/blog/how-much-do-doordash-drivers-make · archived