What do Uber drivers actually keep per hour?

Take the fare, subtract the miles at what the car really costs, and divide by the whole job including the drive to the pickup. In 1112 offers logged in Houston between 2026-08-08 and 2026-10-08, 12% cleared $16 an hour once 35 cents a mile was subtracted.

What does DSI mean on an Uber offer?

DSI scores an offer against the hourly rate you need to keep after the car. 100 means the offer cleared that line. A day can show a median DSI near 100 and still clear almost no offers, because the median describes the middle offer rather than the count above the line.

Uber driver pay in Houston, after the car

Name: Houston Uber offer economics, daily
Creator: PuddleJumper
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Uber shows the fare. It does not show what is left after the miles. This chart uses offers logged in Houston, sets a cost per mile and an hourly line, and counts how many still cleared. Not rides driven. A day is included only if at least 5 offers were logged.

185 of 1419 offers (13%) cleared $16/hr at 35¢ a mile

44 days with offers, 2026-08-08 to 2026-10-27 (90-day window).

What you need to keep, per hour

What is left after the car is paid for — not what Uber pays.

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What the car costs, per mile

35¢ is gas and wear. Slide it to zero to see the offers the way the cards showed them, with the car pretended free. The IRS rate of 72¢ also covers insurance and registration, which you pay whether or not you take the ride.

Days shown

The window, counted back from the most recent day with offers.

What Uber drivers actually keep per hour

Take the fare, subtract the miles at whatever your car really costs, and divide by the time the whole job took — the drive to the pickup as well as the trip. That is what you keep per hour. Set the two sliders above to your own numbers and the chart recounts every logged Houston offer against them.

Why the fare is not the hourly rate

A fare says nothing about how long it takes or how far you drive to earn it. Two offers paying the same can be twenty minutes apart in work and several dollars apart in cost. The car is paid out of the same fare, whether or not the card mentions it, which is why an offer that looks fine can leave very little behind.

What DSI means on an offer

DSI scores the middle offer against your line. 100 means it cleared. The green bars are the share of offers that reached 100. A day can sit near 100 and still clear almost none, because the line is the middle offer, not the count.

On a shift you get one offer and about ten seconds. This page needs a slider. PuddleJumper runs the same line on the live offer and says cleared or not, out loud, before you tap. Houston, last 90 days, from offers logged in the car — not rides driven.

PuddleJumper runs this check on the live offer, including your zones, before the 10 seconds are gone.

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