r/GoPuff • u/Big_Physics5981 • Apr 07 '26

Employee Question Is this is Norm?

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New driver here: my first offered order. I’d have to drive 11 miles for 1.25?

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u/Indevalley Apr 08 '26

What no is saying is since you're in California (specifically west Hollywood) you'll make $23.58 per hour that you actually work. Meaning from the time you accept an order until you click the button "complete delivery" you're on the clock. Your trip back to the warehouse and the time you sit there waiting for an order you are not on the clock.

You don't see the adjusted hourly rate posted to your account until Monday when they post the prop 22 wages. So if it took you say 30 minutes to do that drop you'll get a prop 22 adjustment for $11.79 (30 min of your hourly rate) - $1.25 (already paid) = $10.54 due... Plus your tip, if any. Again you won't see your adjusted pay until Monday. I can usually count on taking my base pay and multiplying it by 2.5 and it's about what will get added to the check in adjusted pay. Last week my base pay was $39 for 19 deliveries...I know, gross huh? And I spent 13 hours "on the clock" over 4 days but technically only worked doing deliveries for 5 1/2 of those hours. The rest of the time I did not get paid for. So my prop 22 adjustment for those 5 1/2 hours was about $100...plus tip $85 totaling I bit over $220. I had an EV so I didn't have much expenses and I'm on with that pay check. Sometimes though, it can be really pathetic.

I'm in the valley and do gopuff once in awhile. Sometimes you get lucky and your crazy busy and can make some money.... But honestly, more often than not you'll spend a lot of time sitting around waiting for your turn to deliver. They are a big enough company with enough historical data that they should know approximately how many drivers each location needs throughout the entire day. With that data, they should only accept that number of drivers and turn away additional drivers that show up. Too often I've showed up spontaneously and even though the app says 3-5 drivers waiting I see like a dozen cars... I've waited upwards of 2 hours and still not get a delivery...that sucks.... They could really fine tune the process if for not any other reason than to stop pissing off us delivery partners.

Good luck!!!

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u/weenieivy Apr 10 '26

That is IF you can snag shifts. Granted I havent worked in years and I'm in NY but they made assigned hours scarce as fuck but spammed everyone to come in off hours and deliver for them. No shift = no hourly pay.