by dankeelan | Aug 25, 2026 | Featured, Gig Workers, Pay
Congress made Labor Day a federal holiday in 1894 to honor the American worker. For the people who move Americans and their furniture, it is one of the busiest working weekends of the year. Data from more than 1.5 million completed jobs at Lugg, an on-demand moving...
by dankeelan | May 26, 2026 | Jobs, Pay, U.S. Economy
Family medicine physician was the best-paying job in seven states last year. Business Insider previously ranked the highest-paying jobs in the US using May 2025 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Now, we wanted to see what pays the best on average by state and...
by dankeelan | Mar 17, 2026 | Featured, Gig Workers, Pay
The gig economy has grown to include apps from Uber to Instacart. They don’t all pay the same. Average hourly pay on the apps varied in 2025, according to data analytics company Gridwise, which analyzed about 1 billion tasks across ride-hailing, delivery, and...
by dankeelan | Mar 10, 2026 | Featured, Pay
An estimated 900 city of Detroit employees could see a wage boost this summer, bringing their compensation up to what’s considered a livable wage in Wayne County. The proposed minimum wage increase to $21.45 an hour, or $44,616 a year, for full-time employees...
by dankeelan | Feb 25, 2025 | Featured, Gig Workers, Pay
Uber hide-hailing drivers saw their earnings for 2024 fall 3.4% on average to $513 a week, according to a study released Tuesday by data analytics company Gridwise. At the same time, Uber drivers worked 0.8% more hours in 2024. Lyft drivers, meanwhile, worked...
by dankeelan | Jan 7, 2025 | Featured, Gig Workers, Pay
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has sued Walmart and work scheduling platform Branch Messenger for allegedly forcing delivery drivers that are part of the discounter’s gig program to use costly deposit accounts to get paid and mispresented how they...
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