Panel SA: Application delivery person earns an average of R$1,170 per month, according to research

Almost 70% of app deliverers are black or brown and earn, on average, R$1,172.63 per month. This is what a survey on working conditions in the sector, commissioned by the Única dos Trabalhadores and by the International Labor Organization, reveals, and will be released this Friday (17th).

According to the study, carried out by researchers at the University of Brasília and the Federal University of Paraíba in Brasília and Recife for 18 months, more than 90% of deliverymen are men, and most are 30 years old or younger.

The net amount received per hour worked by professionals is around R$ 5, according to the survey, but the researchers found cases of deliverymen who receive R$ 0.59 for the same time, working seven days a week.

“The survey reveals the companies’ strategies to increase their profits at the expense of the precarious working conditions of the deliverymen”, says Ricardo Festi, a professor at UnB, who worked on the survey. “The yields are very low and the hours are over 12 hours a day.”

According to Sérgio Nobre, president of the CUT, the data should be used to formulate proposals for the representation of the category, which grew with the advance of unemployment and informality in the pandemic.

With Ricardo Balthazar (interim), Andressa Motter e Ana Paula Branco.