About PennyPerHour

PennyPerHour shows people who work for delivery and gig apps in the UK what they really earn for each hour of work, after the costs and tax that the apps leave out.

Why this site exists

Delivery apps show your earnings before fuel, insurance, vehicle wear and tax, and most of them count only the time spent on each job. Advertised hourly rates are worked out the same way. That makes it hard to compare apps, or to know whether a week was worth it. The calculators here put everything on one receipt and divide it by every hour you were working.

Who runs it

PennyPerHour is built and run by Owais Farooq, a web developer. I write the calculators and the guides, and I check every rate against the official source before it goes on the site. I am not an accountant or a tax adviser, and nothing here is personal tax advice. Where the rules get complicated, the pages say so and link to GOV.UK or HMRC.

How the figures are checked

• Tax, National Insurance, mileage and minimum wage rates come from GOV.UK, HMRC and professional bodies, and are listed with links on how we calculate.
• Facts about each platform come from that platform’s own pages, with links on each calculator page.
• Where we use our own estimate, such as the cost of wear per mile, we say so, and you can change it.
• Rates are reviewed each April when the new tax year starts, and whenever a Budget changes them.

Independence

PennyPerHour is not connected to, paid by or endorsed by Evri, Amazon, Deliveroo, Uber, Just Eat or any other company named on the site. Their names are used only to describe how they pay. The site may show advertising to cover its costs. Adverts never change what a calculator says.

Get in touch

If something looks wrong, or there is a calculator you would find useful, email hello@pennyperhour.co.uk. Corrections are made as quickly as possible.