{"id":311827,"date":"2026-08-02T07:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T07:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311827\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T07:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T07:52:10","slug":"new-york-city-delivery-workers-made-104m-in-tips-since-end-of-january-under-new-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311827\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City delivery workers made $104M in tips since end of January under new law"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\tA delivery worker with a DoorDash bag in New York, US, on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. The New York Department of Consumer and Worker Protection sent notices to major food-delivery\u00a0platforms including Uber Eats, DoorDash, Grubhub and Instacart, warning them to comply with new worker protections taking effect later this month. Photographer: Michael Nagle\/Bloomberg via Getty Images\t\t<\/p>\n

(NewsNation<\/a>) \u2014 Delivery workers in New York City have racked up more than $100 million in tips since the end of January, Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> announced.<\/p>\n

The city Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) began<\/a> enforcing the tipping protections after working with the New York City Council for three years to pass a new law strengthening rights for contracted\u00a0grocery and food delivery workers.<\/p>\n

Mamdani says<\/a> the new law will contribute to an additional $184 million annually in tips, or about $2,287 more each year for the average worker.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cFor years, delivery apps buried the tip button to pad their own bottom line, and delivery workers paid the price,\u201d he stated in a news release. \u201cWe changed the law, enforced it, and it\u2019s working: $104 million has gone back into the pockets of the workers who keep this city fed, rain or shine. New York will not allow billion-dollar tech companies to boost their profits by taking money from working people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Four weeks after the law went into effect, the city said there was a noticeable impact, including delivery workers earning an average of $1.18 per delivery and average tips increasing to $2.29 per delivery.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe data is clear: allowing consumers the clear ability to tip hardworking deliveristas benefits our workers and strengthens our economy,\u201d added DCWP Commissioner Samuel A.A. Levine.<\/p>\n

The city also acknowledged that since December 2023, delivery workers\u2019 total hourly earnings increased from $10.48 per hour to $27.32 per hour. Its minimum pay standard have also contributed over $2 billion in additional earnings for delivery workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A delivery worker with a DoorDash bag in New York, US, on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. The New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-311827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}