Rideshare and delivery jobs in San Francisco

For independent contractor work, yes, you need a vehicle of your own: a car for rideshare, while for food delivery in the flat neighborhoods an e-bike often beats a car once parking is priced in. For the hourly passenger roles, ask the employer what the shift involves when you apply: the arrangement varies.

Both. The hourly passenger roles involve transporting riders who book through the Uber platform. 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 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. 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's 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 school. 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 an hour from July 1, 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 deliver as an independent contractor in the city on seven or more days in a tax 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 every year by the last day of February. It is inexpensive but carries penalties for skipping it, and most drivers find out about it late. Drivers whose only business in the city is rideshare are exempt, and it does not apply to the hourly employed roles.

They matter more than new couriers expect. The flats run from the Embarcadero and the Financial District through SoMa, Mission Bay and the Mission, and that is where most of the food volume sits. Nob Hill, Russian Hill and Telegraph Hill start right next to downtown, and Pacific Heights, Twin Peaks, Noe Valley and Bernal are just as steep, enough that an unassisted bike is hard work. That is why e-bikes dominate here and why plenty of couriers stick to the flats on purpose. On four wheels the grades stop mattering and parking starts.

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 set 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.