An Evri delivery driver has shared how much you can earn when doing a shift for them, asking his followers ‘can you make £100 a day?’ – and it turns out you can potentially earn more
Evri, formerly Hermes, delivers many parcels across the UK, but if you’ve ever considered how much their speedy delivery drivers get paid – chances are, you’re wrong.
A YouTuber named Isaac, who also delivers for the company, shared that how much you earn can vary from day to day, but he gave a rough breakdown of how much money is potentially up for grabs from a day of delivering. Captioning the short clip, he asked his followers: “Can you make £100 a day?” and the answer seems to be yes – if you work really hard and deliver enough packets.
He explained: “You’re getting 50p a collection, no matter what you’re collecting. A postable gets you 38p, despite some postables not being able to be actually posted. You get 47p per packet that you deliver – and there’s going to be a lot of packets, and your standard box gets you about 63p, unless it’s heavy or you have to use two hands because then, it’s £1.”
That may not seem like a lot, but with the amount of parcels that the staff deliver, it quickly adds up to up to £100 per day, depending on the hours you work. In the comments, someone commented that their friend earns a huge amount of money per week because he works really “hard.” He wrote: “This is the problem if you wanna earn an extra £50 to £100 a week its a nice little quick side hustle but my mate works here and he earns over £750 a week because of how many he does daily. Can be great money but hard work to earn it.”
Isaac responded to the comment, writing: “Agreed, being self-employed really teaches you self-worth. If you want to earn as much as you think you’re worth, then be prepared to work as hard as you can!” Someone else pointed out that you have to “pay petrol” to deliver for them, which obviously doesn’t come cheap.
An Evri spokesperson told LADbible: “Couriers are at the heart of our business and all of Evri’s people are paid above the National Living Wage, with the average courier pay in excess of £17 per hour. Evri is committed to good employment practices, and it was this commitment that led us to be the first parcel company to introduce holiday pay, the right to guaranteed pay, an automatic pension scheme, and parental leave for our couriers. If any courier feels that they have received pay which is different from what they were expecting, we ask that they contact their manager so that we can look into this immediately.”
