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Most drivers overestimate their pay by 30–40%. Drop in 4 numbers and see what you actually make ↓
The gig economy sells you freedom. We show you what it actually costs. Calculate your true take-home after gas, taxes, wear, and hidden fees.
App earnings look great on the surface. But after platform fees, self-employment tax, mileage, maintenance, and unpaid wait time — most gig workers earn far less than they think.
Every gig worker goes through it. Short trips, big payouts, the feeling that you cracked the code. Then the orders get longer, the gas bill spikes, the oil change hits, and you're sitting in a pickup line scarfing down a Circle K hotdog between runs — frantically tapping "accept" on what you thought was a solid $1-per-mile order.
Nobody tells you that $1/mile is gross. Nobody mentions the empty return trip. Nobody explains the 15.3% self-employment tax waiting for you in April.
Read the full story →Plug in what you make and what you spend. GigExit does the math — including everything the apps conveniently leave out.
Here is a real audit of a common week. A driver grosses $1,000 across 500 miles in 40 hours and assumes a tidy $25/hour. The mileage deduction and the 15.3% self-employment tax tell a different story.
Audit My Week →"I thought $1,000 for the week meant I was clearing twenty-five bucks an hour. Then I ran the mileage and the self-employment tax. My real number was almost half that. The app never showed me the second half of the equation."
Gross earnings (500 mi · 40 hrs)$1,000.00 Mileage deduction — 500 mi × 76¢− $380.00 Self-employment tax — 15.3% of net− $87.60 Real take-home for the week$532.40 Real hourly rate$13.31/hrPerceived rate: $25.00/hr. Real rate: $13.31/hr — a 47% gap. The mileage deduction already covers gas, maintenance, insurance, and depreciation, so the vehicle cost is not subtracted twice.
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