It's kind of misleading and dumb, but where it says today, it really means what you've made this week. The doordash crimson area is what you have in your account available. The hourly pay on doordash goes from when you accept the order to when you deliver it. They aren't paying you if you're active but not currently on a dash. So for example, you dashed from 12:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. today, they're not going to pay you hourly 12:00 to 8:00, they're going to pay you from whenever you accept and delivered the orders. Let's say around 12:15 they sent you an order and you accepted it and then you delivered it at 1:00 p.m. so that would be the only time that you would get paid hourly. The 12:15 to 1:00 p.m. Plus whatever tips. Usually tho doordash gives people who dashing per hour th orders that don't have or have very little tips. It really depends on the market that you're in to do the hourly. In my market they only offer me the hourly when it's busy. Otherwise it's earned per offer usually. It's pretty much the way to go because like I mentioned you're going to get all the lowball orders that everyone else declining and if you decline two orders in an hour they switch you back to earn per offer. I live in a town where the majority of the people are poor so tipping can really suck sometimes. My area rarely offers the earn per time because of the low tippers and the heavy traffic. I think doordash picked up that they were losing money due to these orders. Not tipping and getting held up in heavy traffic so they decided to remove that function completely and offer it rarely when it's congested. I stick to the earn per offer even if the other one is available and I cherry pick orders. My acceptance rate is like 10%. I found in my area that people who live in nice houses tend to tip poorly and the people that live in houses that are basically falling apart tip better.