To rank the carriers with the best and worst on-time arrival records, Travel + Leisure surveyed the results provided by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics for the 12-month period ending January 2014 (the most recent numbers available).
Estimates of the typical cab driverâs salary hover around $30,000. According to Uber, the median wage for an UberX driver working at least 40 hours a week in New York City is $90,766 a year. In San Francisco, the median wage for an UberX driver working at least 40 hours a week is $74,191. Uberâs numbers donât account for the costs a driver incurs to own and operate a vehicle.
Uber Data Show How Wildly Driver Pay Can Vary. If average Uber driver earnings seem impossible to pin down, it might be because they canât be. Uber claimed its New York City UberX drivers earn a median of $90,766 a year. Slate couldnât find even one driver who made that rate. Then, in a numbers-heavy breakdown of 11 random New York drivers, Buzzfeed found that they earned anywhere from $15 to $53 an hour.