Rome
MEDIUM · sourced, not yet live-verified
Pending live-verification. The source URLs have not yet been fetched and archived in this round; the city will return to a HIGH classification once that is done. Original rationale: Fairwork Italy 2024 Ratings ("Labour Standards and New Demands for Collective Representation in the Italian Platform Economy", in Fairwork published reports list at fair.work/en/fw/fairwork-reports/) + Indeed Italy Glovo + ISTAT national wage data. €12.15 ≈ $13.00.
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Earnings (USD per hour)
Source: Fairwork Italy ratings (Deliveroo, Glovo, Just Eat)
What would you take home in Rome?
Take-home, weekly
$266
Take-home, monthly
$1,152
Gross, weekly
$390
Gross, monthly
$1,690
With a 1BR apartment outside the city centre at $868/mo, rent eats most of your take-home (75% 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 23 hours per week. Rent at $868 per month is 39 percent of gross monthly earnings, which puts a Rome 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 57 percent. Affordable rent at this earnings rate, defined by HUD as no more than 30 percent of gross income, would be around $670 per month. Across the 46 cities in the dataset, Rome ranks 3rd for hours needed to cover rent, where lower is better.
Pay vs. local labour market
Notes
Italy has no statutory minimum wage. Glovo and Just Eat have collective agreements with riders unions. Pay structure is per-delivery; €7-8/hr typical.
View Rome on the interactive map
See full source citations for this city on the sources page. Read about how each metric is computed in the methodology.
Primary earnings source: fair.work/en/fw/fairwork-reports/ · archived