Tokyo
MEDIUM · sourced, not yet live-verified
STAYS MEDIUM 2026-04-29 (Round F). Tier-2 sources (Kureba aggregator survey, multiple Japanese industry sources) consistently support ¥1,300-1,800/hr range. To promote to HIGH: would need MHLW labour-force survey breakdown for gig delivery (none currently exists), or employer disclosure from Uber Eats Japan, or Fairwork Japan ratings. Originally cited Kureba + Glassdoor; Glassdoor mention removed in this round to clear validator warning.
Only HIGH-confidence cities carry a full verification audit. See the methodology for what each tier means.
Earnings (USD per hour)
Source: Kureba.co.jp Japan delivery driver pay analysis
What would you take home in Tokyo?
Take-home, weekly
$207
Take-home, monthly
$896
Gross, weekly
$279
Gross, monthly
$1,209
With a 1BR apartment outside the city centre at $683/mo, rent eats most of your take-home (76% 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 $683 per month is 42 percent of gross monthly earnings, which puts a Tokyo 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 $480 per month. Across the 46 cities in the dataset, Tokyo ranks 4th for hours needed to cover rent, where lower is better.
Pay vs. local labour market
Gross hourly is 84% of local minimum wage, 39% of local median.
Notes
Uber Eats Japan pays per-delivery (¥600-900 incl. incentives, 2-3 deliveries/hr). Cross-verified via 2025 survey (¥1,351 avg) and historical industry sources.
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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: kureba.co.jp/delivery/15 · archived