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🇺🇸United States · High income · 2026-Q2

Miami

46composite score · #27 of 46

LOW · source quality below tier-2

STAYS LOW 2026-04-29 (Round H): Cleaned up earnings_url to point to BLS OES Miami metro instead of Glassdoor (which violated our domain blocklist). Florida's $14.00 min wage is a defensible floor; the previous Glassdoor "Uber Driver Miami $20/hr based on n=6,757 salaries" was self-reported aggregator data inappropriate for tier-1/2 confidence. To promote: would need Florida-specific gig-delivery legislation (none currently proposed) or a tier-1/2 published Miami delivery hourly rate.

Only HIGH-confidence cities carry a full verification audit. See the methodology for what each tier means.

Earnings (USD per hour)

Net, after tax & expenses$10.08/hr
Gross$14.00/hr

Source: Glassdoor Uber Driver Miami (n=6,757 salaries)

What would you take home in Miami?

30hrs

Take-home, weekly

$302

Take-home, monthly

$1,310

Gross, weekly

$420

Gross, monthly

$1,820

With a 1BR apartment outside the city centre at $2105/mo, rent costs more than your monthly take-home (161% 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

Hours of work for one month's rent (1BR outside centre)146 hours

That works out to roughly 34 hours per week. Rent at $2,105 per month is 87 percent of gross monthly earnings, which puts a Miami 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 121 percent. Affordable rent at this earnings rate, defined by HUD as no more than 30 percent of gross income, would be around $730 per month. Across the 46 cities in the dataset, Miami ranks 19th for hours needed to cover rent, where lower is better.

Rent, 1BR outside centre$2105/mo
Restaurant meal (mid-range)$30.00

Pay vs. local labour market

Minimum wage$14.00/hr
Median wage (all occupations)$23.50/hr

Gross hourly is 143% of local minimum wage, 62% of local median.

Notes

FL minimum wage rises annually toward $15 by 2026.

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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: www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_33124.htm