{"id":1977,"date":"2020-10-01T23:21:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T23:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2020-10-02T00:48:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T00:48:15","slug":"local-gig-economy-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/local-gig-economy-minimum-wage\/","title":{"rendered":"LOCAL Gig Economy Minimum Wage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The City: Seattle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The minimum wage proposal is part of Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan\u2019s \u201cFare Share\u201d program with has also imposed ride share fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The policy questions on how to distribute a minimum wage to gig drivers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>whether the driver uses ride share as his principle source of income<\/li><li>whether the driver uses ride share as a means to earn extra cash<\/li><li>current legislative draft: pay drivers $0.56 per minute<\/li><li>why $0.56 per minute, because if they spend 50% of their time waiting for a share ride, this rate would put them at Seattle&#8217;s minimum wage<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What do the City&#8217;s economists from New School&nbsp; &amp; University of California Berkeley say? Current average driver take-home pay is about $9.73 per hour<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What does the industry economist from Cornell say? Drivers earn about $23.25 per hour, above Seattle\u2019s minimum wage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2020\/debate-uber-lyft-driver-pay-comes-head-seattle-prepares-pass-minimum-wage-law\/\">Geek Wire | Debate over Uber and Lyft driver pay comes to a head as Seattle prepares to set minimum wage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/29\/business\/economy\/seattle-uber-lyft-drivers.html\">NY Times | Seattle Passes Minimum Pay Rate for Uber and Lyft Drivers<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City: Seattle The minimum wage proposal is part of Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan\u2019s \u201cFare Share\u201d program with has also imposed ride share fees. The policy questions on how to distribute a minimum wage to gig drivers: whether the driver uses ride share as his principle source of income whether the driver uses ride share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1984,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/1984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}