Manchester
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 UK 2024 (national report applies to all UK cities) + NimbleFins 2026 UK industry research (£9-15/hr) + Indeed UK Deliveroo n>200 + GMB Union Deliveroo agreement. Manchester rate adjusted slightly below London for lower density. £13/hr ≈ $16.51 USD.
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Earnings (USD per hour)
Source: Fairwork UK ratings (Manchester couriers)
What would you take home in Manchester?
Take-home, weekly
$344
Take-home, monthly
$1,490
Gross, weekly
$495
Gross, monthly
$2,145
With a 1BR apartment outside the city centre at $1164/mo, rent eats most of your take-home (78% 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 23 hours per week. Rent at $1,164 per month is 41 percent of gross monthly earnings, which puts a Manchester delivery driver in HUD's “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 59 percent. Affordable rent at this earnings rate, defined by HUD as no more than 30 percent of gross income, would be around $860 per month. Across the 46 cities in the dataset, Manchester ranks 7th for hours needed to cover rent, where lower is better.
Pay vs. local labour market
Gross hourly is 71% of local minimum wage, 52% of local median.
View Manchester on the interactive map
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/uk/ · archived