Rideshare profit calculator

Fuel and electricity defaults above come from the EIA gasoline price series ($4.085/gal) and the EIA electricity price series ($0.1834/kWh), checked 2026-08-27. Edit either field for your own market.

What this calculates

Every rideshare and delivery app shows gross earnings: fares plus tips plus incentives, before anything comes out. This calculator walks that number back to a net figure by subtracting four kinds of cost. Energy is miles driven multiplied by the cost of a mile's worth of gasoline or electricity, picked automatically from whichever the selected vehicle actually burns. Wear and depreciation are also per-mile costs — tires, brakes, oil changes, and the vehicle's loss of resale value as odometer miles accumulate, both sourced per vehicle rather than assumed to be the same for a paid-off Corolla and a financed three-row SUV. Insurance, the car payment, and miscellaneous costs like phone data and car washes are billed monthly regardless of how much driving happens, so the calculator converts them to a weekly figure before subtracting them. What is left is net weekly pay, plus net per month and net per hour once hours worked are entered.

Assumptions baked in

Energy cost per mile comes from one of two formulas depending on the selected vehicle: fuel price divided by combined MPG for a gas or hybrid car, or electricity price times kilowatt-hours per 100 miles for a battery electric car — the same underlying arithmetic either way, just fed a different number. Maintenance and depreciation per mile are pulled from this site's vehicle data, not invented for the occasion; the source for each figure is on that vehicle's page. Monthly fixed costs are converted to weekly using 52 weeks a year, which slightly understates the true weekly share in months with five weekly pay periods. The calculator does not subtract self-employment tax, since tax liability depends on filing status and other income in ways a generic tool cannot know — treat the net number here as pre-tax profit, not spendable cash. It also does not model platform commission changes, surge pricing, or driving in a market with unusually high or low fares; it only converts whatever gross number is typed in.

Full formulas, every default value, and how each vehicle's per-mile costs were sourced are on the methodology page.