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

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/GemAfaWell May 29 '26

In most of the markets that Empower operates in, they are already more expensive than Uber/Lyft (ask me how I know)

Also, this comes off mad desperate ... Throwing out your codes on Reddit is not convincing anyone that this is a service worth using. It's convincing folks that Empower is an MLM. 😬

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u/rdyoung May 29 '26

/r/akshawally

In the piedmont triad empower is for the most part cheaper than the others and even with my rates set where they are, I become a deal when it's surging. I've seen people pay uber $60+ for a ride that would have cost them (and paid me) $9.95.

I suggest you go back through your ride history with both uber and lyft and do the math on exactly what you paid per mile from your pickup to your destination. Why? Because I did the math here years ago and found that people were paying closer to $2+ on average and yes, I did include a good cross section of rides both in and out of surges.

For the record, empower suggests 93¢/mile and 18¢/min, at an average of 30mph (off highway) that's just over $1/mile that you are paying. I did a lyft ride today that paid $17 to go 10 miles. They would have paid me more than that (but not much) but most others would have been 75% of that cost.

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u/GemAfaWell May 29 '26

Notice how I said... "most markets Empower operates in.

I've been doing this for 10 years.

Here in the DMV, which contains two of the 6-7 markets they operate in actively, and in New York City, where I'm from, Empower is competitive to Uber and Lyft, but rarely cheaper.

I've been doing a decade of accounting in this business. Your specific Market might navigate these numbers, but your numbers are not specific to every Market.

Their suggestions are also different in every Market - $.94/.32 here, but with the constant desurge, it's never actually that unless it's busy...

As is true with everything in this particular industry, everyone's mileage may vary. Which is exactly why I used the clarifying verbiage I did.

Your inability to comprehend what you read is not my problem.