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Amazon Flex pay calculator: what a block really pays

Four 4-hour blocks at £60 each, with half an hour of unpaid extra time per block, leave a Flex driver about £10.34 an hour after fuel, wear and insurance. The block looks like £15.00 an hour. Put in your own blocks below.

Your Flex blocks

The app shows each block’s length and pay before you accept it. Use a typical week.

What the app offers for the block.
Driving to the station, queuing, and running over the block.
From home to the station, the route, and back.
Tips on Flex are uncommon in the UK.
Your vehicle and costs

Our starting figures are estimates. Change them to what you really pay.

UK petrol averaged about 174p in October 2026.
Town driving with stops is usually worse than the official figure.
Tyres, brakes, chains, servicing and repairs.
Check what cover Amazon provides during blocks and what your own insurer requires. Enter only the extra you pay.
Phone data, bags, parking, cleaning.
Tax
Before tax. A job uses your tax-free allowance first.
You keep £10.34 an hourDetails

What you really earn

Your weekPetrol car, 18 hours, 160 miles
Earnings, tips and bonuses£240.00
Fuel or charging−£28.13
Wear, tyres and servicing−£12.80
Insurance−£10.00
Phone, data and other−£3.00
After costs£186.07
Income tax and National Insurance£0.00
You keep this week£186.07
You keep per hour£10.34£13.33 an hour before costs. £10.34 after costs, before tax.

After costs you make £2.37 an hour less than the National Living Wage (£12.71, before tax).

How the tax estimate works

Over 48 working weeks you would earn £11,520. The lowest-tax option for you is the HMRC mileage rate (a deduction of £4,368), which leaves a taxable profit of £7,152. That gives about £0 income tax and £0 Class 4 National Insurance a year. Rates are for 2026/27 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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How Amazon Flex pay works

Amazon Flex pays per delivery block, not per parcel. Blocks usually last between three and five hours and can be released up to seven days ahead. Before you accept, the app tells you how long the block is and how much it pays. Amazon’s current UK adverts say drivers can “earn £14 to £18 per hour”, with an asterisk explaining that real earnings per hour vary with how long the deliveries actually take.

That headline rate leaves out three things. You pay for your own fuel and the wear on your car. You pay for insurance. And the block clock does not include the drive to the delivery station, the time queuing to load, or any time you run over. Our calculator adds that extra time to your hours so you see the real rate.

Worked example: four blocks a week

A driver takes four 4-hour blocks a week at £60 each, which is the £15.00 an hour shown in the app. Each block also takes 30 minutes of unpaid time and 40 miles of driving in a petrol car.

Per weekAmount
4 blocks at £60£240.00
Fuel, 160 miles−£28.13
Wear and servicing−£12.80
Insurance−£10.00
Phone and other costs−£3.00
Tax and National Insurance to set aside£0.00
You keep£186.07

The week took 18 hours, not 16. That is £10.34 an hour. No tax is due in this example because, over 48 weeks, the profit after HMRC’s mileage deduction is £7,152, below the £12,570 personal allowance. If you also have a job, that changes: enter your salary in the tax section.

Finishing early raises your hourly rate

Block pay is fixed. If you finish a 4-hour block in 3 hours, you still get the full pay, so your hourly rate goes up. If the route runs long, it goes down. This table shows a £60, 4-hour block before costs.

Real time including extra timeHourly before costs
3 hours£20.00
3.5 hours£17.14
4 hours£15.00
4.5 hours£13.33
5 hours£12.00

Picking better blocks

  • Compare pay per real hour, not per block hour. A block from a station 20 minutes away costs you 40 minutes of driving and fuel that the block does not pay for.
  • Watch the miles. At about 26p a mile for fuel and wear in our example, a 60-mile rural block costs about £15.60 more to run than a 20-mile town block.
  • Keep a mileage log. HMRC lets you deduct 55p a mile for your first 10,000 business miles in 2026/27, but only with records.

Tax for Amazon Flex drivers

Flex drivers are self-employed. Amazon pays you without taking off tax, and you report your profit through Self Assessment if your trading income is over £1,000 in a tax year. You pay income tax above your personal allowance and Class 4 National Insurance at 6% on profits between £12,570 and £50,270. The calculator estimates both.

Questions people ask

How much does Amazon Flex pay per hour in the UK?

Amazon’s UK adverts quote £14 to £18 an hour. That is before fuel, insurance, unpaid extra time and tax, and it varies with how long your deliveries take.

How much does a 4-hour Amazon Flex block pay?

The app shows the pay before you accept. At the advertised £14 to £18 an hour, a 4-hour block would pay about £56 to £72.

Is Amazon Flex worth it after costs?

In our example of four £60 blocks a week, the driver keeps about £10.34 an hour after costs. Short drives to the station and finishing blocks early make the biggest difference.

How long are Amazon Flex blocks?

Amazon says blocks typically last between three and five hours and can be available up to seven days in advance.

Do I pay tax on Amazon Flex earnings?

Yes. You are self-employed, so you register for Self Assessment once your trading income is over £1,000 a year and pay income tax and Class 4 National Insurance on your profit.

Sources

Written and checked by Owais Farooq. Last updated 30 October 2026.

Tax uses 2026/27 rates for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. See how we calculate for every rate, assumption and source.

This is an estimate, not tax advice. Found a mistake? Tell us and we will fix it.

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