B.C. is establishing a minimum wage of $20.88, which is 120% of B.C.’s general minimum wage (currently $17.40) and apply it to engaged time. Engaged time begins when a worker accepts an assignment through its completion. Engaged time does not include the time spent waiting between assignments. This is the rationale for adding a 20% premium. Platform companies will top up the difference when the earnings paid in a pay period do not meet the minimum earnings standard for the engaged time worked.

July 3, 2025 - The rules in Ontario guarantee a minimum wage of $17.20 an hour for “engaged time” — the hours drivers spend actively completing trips or deliveries — but ignore the time spent waiting for work, which many drivers say now makes up a ...

August 15, 2025 - Some Ontario gig workers, including drivers with ridesharing services, got a bit of a pay raise on Canada Day — but there are strings attached. The Digital Platform Workers’ Rights Act, which came into effect on July 1, aims to provide minimum wage standards for gig workers who get hired through digital platforms. Many gig workers in Canada drive for ridesharing and delivery services such as Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Uber Eats and Skip the Dishes.

July 12, 2022 - The Ontario government plans to require “gig economy” companies, which includes on-demand Uber drivers, to pay workers the provincial $15-per-hour minimum wage and comply with other requirements associated with hiring employees.

June 27, 2025 - So, if you want to make $25 per hour, you need to be earning $50 per active hour, and that's wildly unlikely at this rate. ... You aren't required to take every order, it pays per active hour you can still accept or decline. ... No ... active as in if you don't have any delivery you don't get paid for that hour or portion of hours

Example: A delivery services worker has engaged time totalling 56 hours in a 2-week pay period. Their earnings from the offers they received during that time total $1,100. In addition, they receive $45.67 as their distance allowance and $45 in tips.

June 13, 2024 - 3, the province says that anyone who accepts work through these and other gig-based apps, such as ride-hailing and delivery services, must receive $20.88 an hour from the time they accept an assignment to the time it is completed.

June 28, 2025 - New legislation is about to take effect, granting more rights to rideshare, food delivery, and other gig workers in Ontario who operate through digital platforms such as Uber Eats, Lyft, and Instacart. The new Digital Platform Workers' Rights Act, which was tacked on to the Working for Workers Act introduced in 2022, will, most notably, require employers to provide greater transparency regarding a respective position's duties and pay, and to offer at least standard minimum wage via a regular pay cycle, regardless of whether a worker is technically an employee by legal definition.

July 1, 2025 - Under the province's Digital Platform Workers' Rights Act (DPWRA), digital platform workers must be paid at least the minimum wage "for each work assignment performed by a worker."

July 3, 2025 - The rules in B.C. set a minimum wage of $20.88 per hour for “engaged time” — the hours drivers spend actively completing trips or deliveries — but don’t account for the time spent waiting for work, which many drivers say now makes ...

Explore UberEATS Delivery Driver salaries in Ontario collected directly from employees and jobs on Indeed.

June 27, 2025 - My understanding tips are not included in your minimum wage, it's the fare and fare only. So essentially you made 35.00$ per hour for these 3 trips. And I do believe any top up you are owed will be paid out bi weekly, sorta like the prop 22 deal. So really have to watch each and every delivery, ...

February 28, 2022 - Ontario Premier Doug Ford and his labour minister announced plans for new legislation that will extend the $15 minimum wage to gig workers, such as Uber drivers.

October 8, 2024 - The compensation change, which Uber is calling “upfront pricing” and takes effect this week, is a sharp deviation from the existing wage structure for drivers, which paid them a fairly predictable rate based on time taken to complete a trip and distance travelled. Critics say it removes the predictability of drivers’ pay and potentially drives it lower. Upfront fares will allow drivers to see their expected earnings in advance of the trip commencing.

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