Since securing a first-in-the-nation minimum wage late last year, app-based restaurant delivery workers in New York City are making more money and spending less time idling between orders. That’s the upshot of a quarterly report released Thursday by the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, which developed and implemented the minimum pay rules.
Delivery workers earned, on average, $19.26 per hour including tips in the first quarter this year, a 64-percent increase from the $11.72 they earned in the first three months of 2023, according to the report. The new minimum pay rate of $17.96 took effect Dec. 4 after an appeals court judge upheld the city’s decision to institute the policy following legal challenges from delivery apps.
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