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.
(Shutterstock) ( 1 Newser) â At various points, Uber has claimed its drivers can make up to $90,000 a year or $17 an hour, Vanity Fair reports. 2  Uber says it doesn't know how much its drivers make after expenses, and that the numbers arrived at by BuzzFeed are just rough estimates.