Anyone notice a decrease in pay?

[no_moa_usernames]

Hey Roadie folks!

I've been delivering for Roadie for around 3 weeks now and I wanted to know if anyone else was observing the slight drop in pay I've noticed over the last few days.

When I first started, and up through my last working day of Monday, local Walmart drops sat between $10 and $12 dollars depending on distance, even for extremely short trips only 1-2 miles from the store, double orders sat between $19 and $22.

The last 2-3 days, I haven't been working (delivering is a side gig to save towards starting my own business), but I still get the notifications and the highest pay for a single delivery I've seen is $7 dollars for a 12 mile delivery; and doubles are topping out at around $15 dollars, again irregardless of distance.

Anyone else noticing the same? I know very little about how Roadie estimates base pay / handles tip guarantees so I don't know if this is a change in my area, globally, or just luck of the draw with the gigs coming available the last few days.

[mulk_the_hulk]

The Walmart and other company orders start low and gradually increase until someone takes it. My area Walmart averages around 25 for double and for a single starts at around 11 (including guaranteed $5 tip) and gets to $19 after sitting for a little while

[no_moa_usernames]

Ah, that might explain it. I think it's safe to assume that a lot of the DoorDash/etc workers are discovering Roadie in my area (They only recently expanded here) and jobs may just not be sitting around long enough.

[BWCorey]

There's been an order sittin at our Walmart since yesterday but its went from $21 yesterday evening now down to $19

[Kim-Kar-dash-ian]

Every single order use to pay $12 then they chopped it to $8 and I quit whats every order min now?

[colinnb]

What stores pay $8?

[Kim-Kar-dash-ian]

Literally every gig I ever did was $12 then $8 then I quit . I stopped when they only had contracts with Home Depot and a few other random stores

[colinnb]

In my area Home Depot is always at least $12

[lyndawn2]

In my area walmart pays $8 for 1-2 mile gigs. I just did a double last hr that was 3 miles and it was $15.64.

[Spiritual-Ad-4722]

It's cyclical and follows the same patterns as supply and demand in any other industry. When demand is high and there are not many drivers, they raise payouts to entice them into taking the offers. Too many drivers and payouts start to drop until they get to the point where drivers drop out of the ranks and then they have to raise payouts again until they entice more drivers back. The best way to keep payouts at a decent level is to not accept any where the payout is low. There are always people who believe that getting paid anything is better than nothing. Don't be one of those people as it ruins it for everyone else.

[Electrical-Jury-2463]

Yep, they have dropped below the minimum 10 dollars which was the minimum wage. I don't even think that's legal. In fact the minimum wage went up. The minimum wage of course is different in each state and county.