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Saturday, May 2, 2026

NYC cuts proposed delivery worker wage floor by almost $4 - Restaurant Dive

Dive Brief:

  • The New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection reduced the proposed minimum wage for app-based delivery drives by nearly $4 an hour, the department said Tuesday.
  • Despite the cut to the rate, the new wage scale ($17.96 in 2023 rising to $19.96 an hour in 2025) with an adjustment for inflation, constitutes a significant raise for workers, DCWP said. The new wage will be equivalent to almost three times what gig workers make now according to the department.
  • The DCWP cited public opposition by employers to the delivery driver wage rule proposed in November in its justification for shaving down the proposed wage from its initial target of $23.82 by 2025.
  • Dive Insight:

    Uber Eats, Grubhub and DoorDash all advocated for the city to cut its proposed base pay to account for so-called multi-apping, or the periods of time when delivery workers are logged in to multiple delivery apps, according to the new rule.

    The DCWP reduced its proposed total pay by $3.60 and also reduced proposed compensation for Medicare and Social Security contributions by 2 cents, alongside a 2 cent cut to proposed workers’ comp adjustments, and a further 22 cent reduction in base pay, resulting in a total cut of $3.86.

    Also at industry’s prodding, the department is adding an alternative scheme for calculating worker pay. According to a press release from the DCWP, this means that apps that pay workers for on-call time and delivery time must pay workers about $0.30 a minute,...



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