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DoorDash driver guide — earnings, taxes, and mileage tracking

How to track DoorDash earnings, deduct mileage correctly, and find your real hourly rate after gas and wait time.

DoorDash is the most common platform for ShiftTracker users, and also the one with the messiest earnings reporting. Here's what to track, how to deduct, and where the real money is.

What DoorDash reports vs. what you actually earned

DoorDash's weekly earnings summary shows gross pay including tips. It does not show:

  • Miles driven
  • Time spent waiting for orders
  • Gas burned
  • Wear and tear

Which means the "$24/hr" you see in the Dasher app is almost certainly not your real hourly rate. ShiftTracker's net hourly calculation factors all of that in. Most Dashers find their true rate is 20–35% lower than the in-app number.

Mileage deduction for DoorDash drivers

Every mile you drive while logged in and active counts as a business mile. That includes:

  • Driving to a restaurant to pick up an order
  • Driving to the customer
  • Driving back to a "hot zone" to wait for the next order
  • Driving home from your last delivery

At the 2025 standard rate of 67¢/mile, a typical Dasher who drives 200 miles per shift is eligible for a $134 deduction per shift. That's roughly $700/week for full-time drivers.

How to track DoorDash earnings in ShiftTracker

  1. Tap "Start shift" before you go online.
  2. Tag the platform as DoorDash.
  3. Snap your odometer.
  4. At the end of the shift, open the Dasher app, copy your earnings total, paste it into ShiftTracker.
  5. Snap your odometer again.

Your net hourly rate, mileage deduction, and gas expense all update in real time on your earnings heatmap.

DoorDash-specific tax considerations

  • DoorDash sends a 1099-NEC if you earned over $600 in a year.
  • Your DoorDash earnings go on Schedule C as self-employment income.
  • The mileage deduction goes on Schedule C, Line 9 (Car and truck expenses).
  • Quarterly estimated taxes are due in April, June, September, and January.

ShiftTracker generates a Schedule C-ready report that itemizes all of this automatically.

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