My 33rd Instacart paycheck 💸 🛒

Instacart has been hit or miss all summer, but I haven't lost faith. Much like crypto, Instacart has its ups and downs. I'm there for both sides of the battle and trust that eventually things are going to turn up to a level that I'm more satisfied with.

I plan on doing a weekly Instacart Financial Report like this one, so if you enjoy this kind of content be sure to follow me if you aren't already doing so.

I'm going to be breaking down each day of work individually. Luckily, the Instacart Shopper app makes that extremely easy to do. Let's go ahead and get things started.

Monday, September 4th

Monday was Labor Day and that means it was basically an extra weekend day. More people were home from work than a typical Monday, but also more than usual were inside of the grocery store. I didn't turn the app online until around 2 pm and only got two orders after that.

I made about $45.55/hr on this day.

My first order of the day was for probably my most common customer. I've delivered to him and his family at least a dozen times now. He always tips well and his orders are very simple. The best part of it all is that it's only two minutes from my apartment.

Tuesday, September 5th

Was busy with family so I didn't work on Tuesday.

Wednesday, September 6th

Wednesday was surprisingly a really good day. I had orders pretty much all day long, although none of them were particularly fantastic. The thing is, I was happy to just have some orders and be able to stay busy.

I made about $43.65/hr on this day.

The longest I had to drive for any of these orders was 5 miles, the rest of them were often less than 1 mile total. Saving money on gas is huge, especially with my car since the gas mileage is not good at all. about 14.5-15 mpg usually.

Thursday, September 7th

Thursday may as well have been a zero-day. I accepted just one order all day long and it wasn't worth much at all. The only reason I even took the one was because it was only 0.2 miles from the grocery store and they only needed two items.

I made about $36.66/hr on this day.

I also spent a great deal of the day packing to go dogsit at my parent's house for the weekend while they are out of town. I didn't expect to get to work a bunch, but definitely not this little.

Friday, September 8th

Saturday, September 9th

As I mentioned on Thursday, I spent the weekend watching my dogs at my mom and dad's house. There was a grocery store nearby, but I didn't get any orders all of Friday. Saturday I didn't even turn on the app and just decided to take a day off, which the dogs very much appreciated. I gambled that Sunday would be a really good day.

Sunday, September 10th

Boy oh boy am I glad that Sunday came through in the clutch with loads of orders. This was the busiest Sunday I've had in months and I wasn't even able to get started until 1 pm.

I made about $48.85/hr on this day.

As you can see I had 7 orders which means I stayed busy from start until finish. I even got lucky and was able to take advantage of a promotion that randomly started at 3 pm and ended at 6 pm. This gave me an extra $5/batch, which totaled up to an extra $20. I wish I could stay busy like this daily because I really do love doing this gig. Maybe this is a sign that things are getting back to being busy finally and other shoppers are dwindling off. I sure as hell was happy about how this Sunday went though.

End of week hours and pay 🤑

My weekly pay was $304 and I worked almost 7 total hours.

I made about $45.77/hr on average this past week.

Doing it again next week 👀

This week was the first time in a long time that I've had two $100+ days in one week. It used to be that I had seven $100 days every week and often even earned over $200 in one day. Here is to hoping that starts to happen again now that fall is almost here. This was another week where I barely hit my minimum goal of $300, but a success is a success.

I hope you have enjoyed this insider look at what kind of pay is possible while working for Instacart.