How many hours does the rent cost you?
One number decides whether a rental works: the hours you have to drive before you keep anything. Put in your own figures — the ones below are only an example.
Your numbers
Pre-filled with example figures — replace them with your own.
After fuel or charging, tolls and platform fees — before the rent.
To cover the rent
14.0hours a week
Shown against a 60-hour week for scale.
- Over 6 days
- 2.3 h/day
- Over 5 days
- 2.8 h/day
Everything you earn after those hours is yours. Below them, you are paying to drive.
This is arithmetic, not advice. It ignores bond, excess on an at-fault claim, fines, cleaning, downtime and tax. Your real earnings per hour vary by day, weather and surge — track a few weeks before you commit.
How the maths works
Weekly rent divided by what you clear per hour. If the rent is $350 and you clear $25 an hour after fuel, tolls and platform fees, you drive fourteen hours before you have earned a dollar for yourself. That is the whole calculation — no assumptions, no averages borrowed from somewhere else.
What it deliberately leaves out: the bond you have to find up front, the excess if you have an at-fault accident, fines, cleaning, downtime when the car is being serviced, and tax. Those are the things that turn a workable week into a bad month, so build your own buffer on top of the number you see here.