TaskRabbit Earnings Calculator

Task platforms pay the worker their own rate less a service commission, so the rate set on a profile is gross and what arrives is smaller. This calculator multiplies tasks a week by hours per task to get weekly hours, applies the hourly rate for gross earnings, deducts the commission, and reports the weekly net alongside an annual projection. At the loaded figures that is 20 hours a week at 30 an hour, or 600 gross, less a 15% commission of 90, leaving 510 a week.

The figure worth carrying away is the effective hourly rate rather than the headline one. A 30 rate at a 15% commission is 25.50 an hour in practice, and that is the number to compare against any other use of the same hours. Commission rates differ by platform and change over time, which is why the percentage is an input here rather than built in: at these hours and rate, 10% leaves 540 a week and 25% leaves 450, a spread of 90 a week or 4,680 a year on identical work.

Volume is the other half, and it varies more than the rate does. Five tasks a week at the same duration and rate gives 255 a week; twenty-five gives 1,275. Which categories of work sustain that volume depends entirely on local demand, and the rate a category commands depends on the skill and equipment it requires, so both are local questions rather than general ones. Higher-rate work usually needs either a trade qualification or tools that have to be bought before the first job.

Run it with sensible defaults

Using tasks per week of 10, average hours per task of 2, an hourly rate of 30 and a 15% commission, the weekly net is 510. Gross is 600, the commission takes 90, and the annual projection is 26,520 across 52 weeks. That annual figure assumes every one of the 52 weeks is worked at the same volume, which is the model's least realistic assumption for this kind of work: at 46 weeks the same weekly net gives 23,460 rather than 26,520, so entering a lower task count is the simpler way to reflect quiet periods than adjusting the annual figure afterwards.

The levers in this calculation

Tasks per week, average hours per task and hourly rate are the larger levers: a 1% change in any of the three moves weekly net earnings by about 1%, against 0.18% for the commission percentage in the opposite direction. The first three multiply together, so they are interchangeable in proportional terms and differ only in how much room each has to move. The commission looks small in that comparison because a 1% change to it means moving 15% to 15.15%, not moving it by a percentage point. In whole points it matters considerably more: each point of commission is worth 6 a week or 312 a year at these hours and rate.

How the math works

Weekly hours are tasks multiplied by hours per task. Gross is those hours multiplied by the rate. Net is gross multiplied by one minus the commission. The annual figure is the weekly net multiplied by 52. The effective hourly rate follows directly from the same terms: it is the headline rate multiplied by one minus the commission, which makes it independent of how many tasks are done or how long they take. At the loaded values that is 25.50 an hour whatever the volume.

What this doesn't capture

Tax and any social or self-employment contribution sit outside this calculation, and both depend on jurisdiction. So do the costs of doing the work: tools and equipment bought before the first job, transport between jobs, consumables, and insurance where the work requires it. Unpaid time is missing too, including travel, quoting, messaging with clients, and cancellations. The figure is platform revenue after commission rather than what ends up available, and it is the base those charges and costs would then be applied to.