Scaling Uber driving as share of total compensation and employment, 2015–2017 first quarter

Row Item Source Data
1 Number of driver participants Cook et al. 2018, Table 1 1,873,474
2 Number of driver-weeks Cook et al. 2018, Table 1 24,832,168
3 Hours per week Cook et al. 2018, Table 1 17.06
4 Uber hourly compensation Table 2, Row 10 $11.77
Compensation share
5 Uber weekly compensation Row 3 × Row 4 $200.80
6 Uber aggregate compensation ($ millions) Row 5 × Row 2/1,000,000 $4,986
7 Cumulative U.S. compensation ($ millions) BEA NIPA 2.1 $22,228,478
8 Uber compensation share Row 6/Row 7 0.022%
9 Gig economy (1.5 × Uber) share of compensation 1.5 × Row 8 0.034%
Employment shares
10 Total employment, full-time and part-time, 2016 BEA NIPA 6.4D 148,658,000
11 Number of driver participants, per year Row 1/2.25 832,655
12 Uber driver participants’ share of employment Row 11/Row 10 0.56%
13 Driver-weeks per year Row 2/2.25 11,036,519
14 Uber full-year driver equivalent employment Row 13/52 212,241
15 Uber full-time, full-year equivalent (FTE) employment (Row 3/40) × Row 14 90,521
16 Full-time, full-year equivalent (FTE) employment, 2016 BEA NIPA 6.5D 132,752,000
17 Uber share of FTE employment Row 15/Row 16 0.07%
18 Uber share of employment Row 14/Row 10 0.14%
19 Gig economy share of FTE employment 1.5 × Row 17 0.10%
20 Gig economy share of employment 1.5 × Row 18 0.21%
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