What WageBrew does with your earnings
A plain description of what the app works out, where the numbers come from, and what it cannot tell you.
WageBrew takes the earnings you already have and works out the things your platform apps do not tell you. Here is what that means in practice.
It starts with your export
You download an earnings CSV from your platform and upload it. The app works out which platform it came from and reads it.
How much it can tell you depends on what your export includes. Some platforms give you start and end times for every job, and distance. Others give you a date and an amount and nothing else.
After an import the app tells you exactly what it found. If your file had no times in it, it says so, and it tells you which insights stay locked as a result. It does not fill the gaps with guesses.
What it works out
Your real hourly rate, after fuel, mileage and tax. Usually several dollars below the number your app shows you.
Which parts of the week pay you best, broken down by day and by morning, lunch, afternoon and evening.
Whether long shifts are costing you. It compares your first few hours against the later ones.
What an offer is actually worth. You put in the pay, the miles and the minutes, and it tells you whether that is a good one by your own standards rather than a rule of thumb from a forum.
How much to set aside for tax each week, using the safe harbor rule so you are not guessing.
What it will not do
It will not invent data. If you have twelve records and none of them have times, it cannot tell you your best hour, and it will say so rather than making something up.
It will not tell you to work more. Several of the things it looks for are about working less for the same money, because that is often the better answer.
It is not tax advice. The estimates are good enough to plan around and set money aside with. For filing, talk to someone who does this for a living.
Where the numbers come from
Everything is calculated from your own records. There is no benchmark from other drivers, no national average standing in for your city.
Every figure tells you what it is based on. If a rate comes from eleven sessions, it says eleven sessions. If there is not enough to say anything useful, it stays quiet instead of showing you a confident number built on three data points.
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