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AIUI California minimum wages:

A) fast food employee: $20/hour

B) other employee: $16/hour

C) delivery gig worker: $19.20/hour plus $0.30/mile (but only for the time you're actively on a job)

I guess they did the math and figured out that C is cheaper than A. If the demand for pizza delivery workers is spiky, perhaps it makes more sense to link the costs to the actual output (# deliveries).

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Why do fast food workers get to make more than other employee types?

According to this article, it's the result of union strategy:

https://calmatters.org/economy/2023/12/minimum-wage-2024/

I don't know much about it.

also, you only pay a gig worker for the time they are delivering, not between orders or sitting around on slow days.

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