Mexico City
LOW · source quality below tier-2
STAYS LOW 2026-04-29 (Round H): Cleaned up earnings_url to point to CONASAMI (Mexican federal minimum wage commission, gob.mx tier-1) instead of Glassdoor.com.mx. Mexico has no platform-delivery-specific labor protections. Previous Glassdoor citation removed. To promote: would need a Mexican platform-delivery survey (Fairwork Mexico does not publish hourly rates), or a STPS / CONASAMI publication breaking out gig-delivery from general transport.
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Earnings (USD per hour)
Source: Glassdoor Mexico Uber/DiDi/Rappi salaries
What would you take home in Mexico City?
Take-home, weekly
$52
Take-home, monthly
$225
Gross, weekly
$84
Gross, monthly
$364
With a 1BR apartment outside the city centre at $793/mo, rent costs more than your monthly take-home (353% 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 more than 90 hours per week. Rent at $793 per month is 164 percent of gross monthly earnings, which puts a Mexico City 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 265 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.
Pay vs. local labour market
Gross hourly is 128% of local minimum wage, 67% of local median.
Notes
CDMX shows wide variance (MXN 3,000-9,000/mo). Best earners hit MXN 20,000/mo with 10+ hr/day. Indeed and Talenteca aggregate to ~MXN 50/hr gross. Outside-of-center rent estimated as 70% of city-center pending Round D1.
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Primary earnings source: www.gob.mx/conasami · archived