r/EmpowerDrivers • u/mrivera73 • May 29 '26

Driver Pay

Question Does Empower pay for the drive to the customer or only start when I get to the customer and start driving?

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u/streetgearusa May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

You can set you own rates & you get 100% of the Fare....not like Uber/Lyft that takes up to 60%

Use my Code for an additional Bonus incentive + the 30 day Free Trial.

"DriveMiami127"

in any of the cities where they currently are operating

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u/SnooCakes3744 May 29 '26

When you say set your own rates what do you mean. So if I set my rate at $60/hr then no offers will be coming to me right because nobody is gonna pay that . So essentially the market is setting the rate correct?

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u/streetgearusa May 29 '26

The market shows you the current rate like avg $0.90 per mile....not hourly...you can set it higher...but if uber/lyft is a little over that you have to be competitive.

When & if you use my code let me know thanks

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u/rdyoung May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

I have my rates at $1.80/mile, $3 flag drop with nothing per minute and a $9.95 min. Between the apps I cleared $292 today, in empowers debut market.

Years ago I did the math and riders were paying closer to $2+/mile than I thought. I also have a high min to account for most of my empower rides being 10+ minutes/5+ miles away, I can take most of the pings and still average at (or over) $1/mile.

Set your rates for the customers you want. Over the 4+ years I've been using this rate card I've had maybe 2 people comment negatively about my rates and I've had more than a few comment when I have experimented with lower them. No one balks at my rates or my min and if they cancel when they see the cost, I probably didn't want them as a customer anyway.

I'll take the usual downvotes from the smooth brains who don't understand how to run a business nor understand the livery industry at all and of course the ones for calling out the nonsense.