Rideshare and delivery jobs in San Francisco

Not for the hourly passenger roles. The hiring company provides the vehicle and covers gas, maintenance and insurance. You pick the car up at the start of your shift and return it at the end. You only need your own vehicle if you want to do independent contractor work, whether that is rideshare, food delivery, grocery or parcels.

Both. The hourly passenger roles involve transporting riders who book through the Uber platform in a company vehicle. Alongside that we match drivers to delivery work, food, grocery, parcels and scheduled e-commerce blocks, which you do in your own vehicle as an independent contractor. Plenty of people do both, and one signup covers everything.

Around 20 dollars an hour plus tips, and you are paid by the hour rather than per trip, so a quiet hour pays the same as a busy one. There are also bonus opportunities. Because gas, maintenance and insurance are covered, that figure is much closer to what you actually keep than a gross per-trip rate would be. Full-time positions add medical, dental and vision options, a 401(k) with employer matching, paid parental leave and paid time off.

You must be 23 or older, hold a valid California driver license, and have at least one year of licensed driving experience. You also need a personal smartphone and to be able to read, write and speak English. A pre-employment drug test is required and random testing may follow, in accordance with California law.

Part-time runs up to six days a week and only one day a week is required, which is why it works alongside another job or studies. The patterns are a morning shift, a double shift split across the middle of the day, and an afternoon shift. Full-time is 37 or more hours a week on an 8am to 4pm schedule with consecutive days off.

This applies to independent contractor work in your own vehicle, not to the hourly roles. It guarantees at least 120% of the applicable minimum wage for your engaged time, meaning from accepting a job to completing it, plus a per-engaged-mile payment set at 37 cents for 2026. San Francisco has its own minimum wage of 19.61 dollars an hour from 1 July 2026, higher than the 16.90 California rate. The important limit is that waiting time between jobs is not covered, so the floor protects a busy hour far better than a quiet one.

If you are working as an independent contractor in the city more than 30 days in a fiscal year, yes. San Francisco requires a Business Registration Certificate from the Office of the Treasurer and Tax Collector, registered within 30 days of starting and renewed annually by the last day of February. It is inexpensive but carries penalties for skipping it, and most drivers find out about it late. It does not apply to the hourly employed roles.

It matters more than new couriers expect. The flat core runs roughly from the Embarcadero through SoMa and the Mission, and that is where most of the food volume sits. West of Van Ness and south of 24th Street the grades are steep enough that an unassisted bike is hard work, which is why e-bikes dominate here and why plenty of couriers stay inside the northeast quadrant on purpose. It is not a factor in a company car.

On the independent contractor side, yes, and most experienced San Francisco drivers do, because there is no exclusivity and it covers the gaps Prop 22 does not pay for. The hourly employed shifts are a scheduled commitment, so they work differently: you agree your shifts in advance. Service Club is one signup across all of it, so the paperwork happens once.

No. Service Club is free for drivers. We earn from the companies we connect you to, never from your earnings.