Jakarta
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 Indonesia 2022 second round ratings (verified at fair.work/en/ratings/indonesia/): evaluated 11 platforms. Grab/Gojek/Gobox scored 4/10, most others 0/10. Plus Fairwork Indonesia 2023 in published reports list. Cross-corroborated by ITUC March 2025 reporting (Nuryani case: 17-hr day = <100,000 IDR/$7) and ScienceDirect academic study (45 gig workers Greater Jakarta interviewed). IDR 18,000/hr × $0.000064 = $1.15 USD.
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Earnings (USD per hour)
Source: Fairwork Indonesia 2024 ratings
What would you take home in Jakarta?
Take-home, weekly
$24
Take-home, monthly
$103
Gross, weekly
$36
Gross, monthly
$156
With a 1BR apartment outside the city centre at $237/mo, rent costs more than your monthly take-home (231% 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 69 hours per week. Rent at $237 per month is 114 percent of gross monthly earnings, which puts a Jakarta 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 173 percent. Affordable rent at this earnings rate, defined by HUD as no more than 30 percent of gross income, would be around $60 per month. Across the 46 cities in the dataset, Jakarta ranks 40th for hours needed to cover rent, where lower is better.
Pay vs. local labour market
Gross hourly is 122% of local minimum wage, 56% of local median.
Notes
Outside-of-center rent estimated as 70% of city-center rent pending Round D1 verification.
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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/indonesia/ · archived