I did a quick search and it appears the law sets a minimum of about $20 per hour. So I guess DoorDash considers there to be about 40 minutes of "active time" per hour?
That seems to "match" what I quickly saw. I'm in no way an expert on this, but I did some quick spot checking of what I could find online. From 5-10 screenshots I saw of people's earnings drivers seem to have about 70% or 75% of "dashing time" as active time.
There were exceptions I also saw, someone at 50%, some other people said they were at ~90% although I didn't see screenshots.
I assume this varies heavily by if your in a city or not or how close to meal time it is which I've got no insight into.
And note this could be all entirely wrong - it's people who chose to post their screenshots online so huge risk for selection bias to it being higher paid workers.
What law are you referring to, and a minimum of $20 per hour for what? Wouldn't your interpretation mean I can sign up for DoorDash, keep the app open, never accept a delivery, and be guaranteed $20/hr?
I don't know, but presumably OP is referring to a $20min wage as covering active time, not "dashing" time. The latter means you have the app open and are scheduled to work. Active means you are actively driving to a restaurant, picking up food or dropping it off.
So if you schedule two hours and the app give you no hits, or you decline hits that time wouldn't count.
Now that said, I know nothing about the $20 min wage and can't say if that's accurate or not.
That states they can choose hourly minimum or "or pay per delivery at about 50 cents a minute" which is in line with $29.93 per hour for what DoorDash calls "active" work.
There were exceptions I also saw, someone at 50%, some other people said they were at ~90% although I didn't see screenshots.
I assume this varies heavily by if your in a city or not or how close to meal time it is which I've got no insight into.
And note this could be all entirely wrong - it's people who chose to post their screenshots online so huge risk for selection bias to it being higher paid workers.