Minneapolis
MEDIUM · sourced, not yet live-verified
MEDIUM 2026-04-29 (Round F) — newly added. Minneapolis has rideshare protections (Uber/Lyft passenger only) but no equivalent for food delivery. Earnings figure is a market-median estimate. To promote to HIGH: would need extension of city ordinance to food delivery, or a tier-1/2 Minnesota-specific delivery source.
Only HIGH-confidence cities carry a full verification audit. See the methodology for what each tier means.
Earnings (USD per hour)
Source: BLS OES + market estimate
What would you take home in Minneapolis?
Take-home, weekly
$324
Take-home, monthly
$1,404
Gross, weekly
$450
Gross, monthly
$1,950
With a 1BR apartment outside the city centre at $1252/mo, rent eats most of your take-home (89% 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 37 hours per week. Rent at $1,252 per month is 48 percent of gross monthly earnings, which puts a Minneapolis 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 67 percent. Affordable rent at this earnings rate, defined by HUD as no more than 30 percent of gross income, would be around $780 per month. Across the 46 cities in the dataset, Minneapolis ranks 22nd for hours needed to cover rent, where lower is better.
Pay vs. local labour market
Gross hourly is 94% of local minimum wage, 59% of local median.
Notes
Minneapolis has a rideshare driver minimum pay ordinance for Uber/Lyft passenger transport. Food delivery is not currently covered.
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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_33460.htm · archived