How Much He Makes: I can make about $500 to $750 a week. But it pays off no one has a car in New York City! I bought my own van and raised my hourly rate because I have to pay for gas and tolls. His Rate: $25 an hour for events and $60 or $65 an hour for heavy lifting tasks and furniture assembly $80 an hour for moving. I try to stick to Monday through Friday, but recently extended through Saturday. Jobs normally run two hours, and I try schedule two to three a day. Hours: About six hours a day, but it depends how long the tasks take. Originally, I started to work with them as a way to have a little extra cash coming in. Why He Started: I had just lost my job in the finance industry, and a friend mentioned that he read about this website TaskRabbit in an article. But you do end up experiencing and learning a lot of things from this diverse crowd of people you’d never normally meet. What He Doesn’t: Not having any kind of backup if something goes wrong, but TaskRabbit does offer different perks from insurance groups they’ve aligned themselves with. Also, there’s always a last-minute friend gathering, and not every job can accommodate that. I can’t imagine getting a job and within a month or two pulling the boat out of the water and undertaking this project. I live on a boat, and I started doing a major maintenance project on it. What He Likes About Being a Tasker: I have the freedom to do everything I want to do. I’ve dealt with a lot of really nice people doing TaskRabbit. This client just realized I’d been working for a long time and they brought me a sandwich. A lot of times when a task goes long, you have to clock out to go get food. I don’t remember what the task was, but it was something that was easy for me and just overwhelming for the other person. It taught me that if someone is desperate enough, they’ll pay what they need to pay to get people to help.īest Job: The first time I got a hug from a client was amazing. They were supposed to come folded, and the company was desperate to get them folded before an event. I think I can do even better than that, too.Ĭraziest Job: I got paid $70 an hour to fold t-shirts for a start-up company. Once I realized I could do it, I started to average a little over $2,000 a week, or $6,000 to $7,000 a month. How Much He Makes: My first week, my take home earnings were $1,500. His Rate: $150 an hour for any kind of job he's willing tackle most types of TaskRabbit jobs, from shopping to carpentry and construction. Hours: I typically spend half the week living and working on my boat in Napa, and the other half in the city completing tasks. So I decided to close down my petition management company and start working for TaskRabbit instead. He was always coming home every day bragging about it and wanting to show me things on his app. Why He Started: I had a friend staying with me, and he got a job with TaskRabbit. We spoke to three of the company's "elite taskers" to see just what it takes to earn those big bucks, the perks and pitfalls of the job, and the goofiest tasks to which they've subjected themselves. Taskers set their own rates and those who fully commit to the platform, roughly 10% to 15% of them, can earn $6,000 to $7,000 a month, according to Viggiano. Oh and then there's the money, which isn't half bad. She notes that 60% of Taskers come to the platform wanting to be in control of their own schedules So what's in it for the 30,000-odd people who've signed up to be Taskers? A flexible workday is one perk of the job, according to Jamie Viggiano, vice president of marketing for the company. Most of us hate running our own errands, let alone other people's. metro areas and London-simply have to enter information about the task at hand, pick a date and time slot to have it done, and select from a short list of people who are oddly willing to schlep your stuff, rake your yard, or build your unpronounceable shelving unit. And therein lies the business model for TaskRabbit, a web platform launched in 2008 that specializes in connecting people who need chores done with people willing to complete them.Ĭonsumers in markets where TaskRabbit operates-19 U.S. You have probably said one or more of these sentences at some point or another.
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