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🇺🇸United States · High income · 2026-Q3

Philadelphia

39composite score · #34 of 50

MEDIUM · sourced, not yet live-verified

MEDIUM 2026-04-29 (Round F), newly added. Pennsylvania remains at federal minimum and has no gig-delivery-specific protections. Earnings figure is a market-median estimate based on national platform aggregator data. To promote to HIGH: need a Pennsylvania-specific tier-1/2 source for gig delivery hourly earnings.

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

Earnings (USD per hour)

Net, after tax & expensesn/a
Gross$13.00/hr

Source: BLS OES + market estimate

What would you take home in Philadelphia?

30hrs

Take-home, weekly

n/a

Take-home, monthly

n/a

Gross, weekly

$390

Gross, monthly

$1,690

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)334 hours
Rent, 1BR outside centre$1314/mo
Restaurant meal (mid-range)$21.50

Pay vs. local labour market

Minimum wage$7.25/hr
Median wage (all occupations)$26.11/hr

Gross hourly is 84% of local minimum wage, 23% of local median.

Notes

Pennsylvania uses the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hr, one of 20 states still at the federal level.

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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/special-requests/oesm25ma.zip · archived