Citing a combination of leaked documents and data provided by Uber in response to requests by the publication, BuzzFeed News reports that Uber drivers in three large US markets make substantially less than the company has at times suggested.

After noting that Uber chief adviser (and Cleveland Cavaliers fan) David Plouffe extolled the ride-hail company as a means for drivers to obtain the middle-class American Dream, the publication reveals that drivers in Houston, Denver, and Detroit make shockingly little after expenses — certainly not the "more than $100,000 a year in gross sales" claimed in a 2013 Wall Street Journal article.

Just how little? BuzzFeed breaks it down. Drivers can expect to make $8.77 per hour in Detroit, $10.75 in Houston, and $13.17 in Denver. It is important to note that all of these numbers come after expenses, like the cost of a car and gas, and rely on some basic assumptions by BuzzFeed. At least one of those assumptions, that gas costs $1.75 per gallon, clearly doesn't apply to SF where gas is the most expensive in the county.

In fact, just earlier this month, the AP noted that gas in San Francisco is around $2.87 per gallon. So, yeah, chew on that one for a while.

BuzzFeed News acquired the data via "a source who worked with Uber pricing data," and notes that the information covers "tens of thousands of trips taken in the Denver, Houston, and Detroit markets during two- or eight-week periods in late 2015."

While the leaked data doesn't cover the Bay Area, it does paint a general picture of the kind of money a driver can actually expect to make working for the $62.5 billion company.

As a 61-year-old driver in Detroit explained to BuzzFeed, "I like the job. But financially, it’s not doing it for me.”

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