Mumbai
MEDIUM · sourced, not yet live-verified
LOW-to-MEDIUM provenance, and the 'pending live-verification, will return to HIGH once fetched' framing is withdrawn: the URLs have been fetched and two of the three do not support what this row publishes. earnings_url is a Bengaluru report with no Mumbai cut and no hourly rate. median_wage_url is a ministry home page carrying no wage data at all. min_wage_url does support a rate, but not the one previously published here; it has been corrected to Rs 65.55/hr (see min_wage_note). Fairwork India 2024 rated 11 platforms with only bigbasket and Urban Company reaching the first Fair Pay point, but that report has no URL in this row and is not clickable.
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Earnings (USD per hour)
Source: BusinessToday India gig economy investigation
What would you take home in Mumbai?
Take-home, weekly
n/a
Take-home, monthly
n/a
Gross, weekly
$37
Gross, monthly
$159
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
Pay vs. local labour market
Gross hourly is 179% of local minimum wage, 108% of local median.
Notes
Mumbai has India's highest urban food delivery earnings (Swiggy, Zomato, Zepto). Cross-verified with India press; Fairwork India 2024 noted no major platform pays the local minimum wage after costs. Outside-of-center rent estimated as 70% of city-center pending Round D1.
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Primary earnings source: www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/are-zomato-swiggy-delivery-agents-earning-more-than-some-it-engineers-new-video-reveals-shocking-facts-438047-2024-07-22 · archived