← Gig driver net pay calculator
Gridwise is a phone app built for ongoing tracking: create a driver account, link your Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, or other gig-platform account so it can auto-import earnings, and it runs background GPS tracking to log mileage over days and weeks. Its effective-hourly figure is built from that tracked history — gross earnings minus logged mileage and expenses — and deeper analytics sit behind a paid Gridwise Plus tier that starts with a 14-day trial and then bills automatically unless cancelled.
That makes Gridwise the right choice for tracking pay and mileage automatically across every trip, every app, over time. This page answers a narrower, faster question: for one session you already have numbers for, right now, what did the car actually cost, and what's really left — with no account, no install, and nothing uploaded.
| Question | Where to answer it |
|---|---|
| What's my average effective hourly rate across weeks of dashes, tracked automatically? | Gridwise's linked-account tracking. |
| For this one session, what did the car cost at my own gas price and MPG, and what's left per hour and per mile? | This calculator — type the session's numbers, get an answer immediately, nothing installed. |
| What should I set aside for self-employment tax on this session's profit? | This calculator's tax reserve figure — enter your own reserve percentage. |
| What gross pay would this session need to hit a take-home goal? | This calculator's target take-home solver. Gridwise's public materials describe forward tracking, not a reverse solver for a take-home goal. |
| Can I check the number without creating an account or installing anything? | This calculator — a static page, no sign-up, no app store. |
This tool needs no account and no gig-platform link: it is a static
page, the arithmetic runs in your browser, and your gross pay, miles,
and every other figure stay on this device — nothing is uploaded
anywhere, and a shareable link carries your inputs after the
# in the URL rather than on a server.
Both answer different questions. Gridwise is a phone app: you create a driver account, link your Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, or Instacart account so it can auto-import earnings, and it runs background GPS tracking to log mileage over days and weeks, building an ongoing effective-hourly and expense history. This page is a single static form: no account, no download, no linking a gig platform. You type one session's gross pay, miles, hours, gas price, MPG, and a maintenance-per-mile reserve, and it computes that session's net pay per hour and per mile, a self-employment tax reserve, and the gross pay needed to hit a take-home goal — right now, with nothing installed and nothing uploaded.
Not the same way. Gridwise's own material describes its effective-hourly figure as gross earnings minus logged mileage and expenses, drawn from its background GPS tracking and whatever expenses a driver has entered in the app — a rolling average built from tracked data, not a single session priced against a specific gas price and MPG you choose. This page asks for your own gas price, MPG, and a maintenance-per-mile reserve for one session, plus monthly insurance and other fixed costs prorated across your typical monthly mileage, so the figure is arithmetic you can check against a fuel receipt and your own odometer for that one session.
The core tracking is free to use, but a driver account is required and deeper analytics sit behind Gridwise Plus, a paid tier that starts with a 14-day trial and then bills automatically unless cancelled. This calculator has no account, no trial, and nothing that bills — it is a free static page with no server behind the numbers you type.
No. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Gridwise, Inc. Gridwise is a trademark of its owner, named here only to describe what this calculator is for.