There are two ways we can find out what a customer tips. The easiest way is to access, is the weekly pay screen (see above). For those of you interested in DoorDash earnings, I dashed for 16.9 hours this week, that’s $17.9 per hour. I am also taking orders on uberEATS simultaneously and earned an additional $146 during the same time. That’s $26.4 per hour delivering food. A solid week, above my goal is $20 per hour. Of course, I only work when it’s busy and use a few other apps throughout the week, so don’t expect to make over $20 per hour all the time. Diversify your apps.

Back to the weekly pay screen, we can see the totals of the delivery pay, DoorDash’s contribution to the overall payout, and tips, the customer’s contribution. The delivery earnings include per delivery bonuses, an important aspect of your pay. This particular week, DoorDash paid 58.5% of my total weekly earnings. Since there is no guarantee that you will earn the per delivery bonuses for a given dash, let’s remove them from this calculation. The per delivery bonuses this week was $113.50. Without the per delivery bonus, DoorDash only paid $64.17, or 33% of the total earnings.

We can also use the weekly tip total to examine the differences between the Old Pay Model and the New Pay Model. I have kept track of my last 719 deliveries and by removing the extra delivery pay and the total tips you can find out the delivery pay per delivery. It comes out to $4.27 per delivery. On the Old Pay Model DoorDash paid $5 per delivery. DoorDash is saving $0.73 per delivery. That’s a lot. However, if the per delivery bonus is achieved then DoorDash pays $5.67 per delivery. That’s a lot more than $5.

Spread out over my last 719 deliveries, the New Pay Model seems to be heavily in DoorDash’s favor unless the dasher achieves the per delivery bonus. Read here on my strategy to get it almost all the time. Now, let’s see how this works per delivery.