These Apps Will Pay You Up to $176 to Deliver Food 1 Day/Week

We all need — or want — extra money.

A little extra for groceries this week. A cushion for your savings. An additional student loan payment. Hey, maybe even splurge on something for yourself.

There are plenty of ways to add money to your bank account, but if you’re looking for a flexible gig that requires limited human interaction, food-delivery apps might be your perfect fit.

No, driving burritos around town doesn’t need to be your lifelong career. App-based side gigs are great for that reason — you can work as little or as much as you want, and you can quit when you’ve hit your money goal.

Perhaps the best part is that some of these delivery services pay pretty well. For example, grocery delivery service Shipt says it pays its shoppers up to $22 an hour.

We did some quick math: If you work one day a week for eight hours, you could add an extra $176 to your bank account. If you kept with this routine for a month, you could earn more than $700. That’s rent. Or a few months of student loan payments. Or a vacation. Or a new smartphone.

There are a number of food-delivery gigs out there looking for workers. Here are a couple of our favorites:

1. Get Paid to Deliver Groceries — Then Forgo Your Own Shopping

If you’re one of those people who enjoys grocery shopping — jamming to the cheesy throwback tunes that play over the speakers and meandering through aisles full of food — then you might make the perfect Shipt shopper.

With Shipt, you can get paid up to $22 an hour grocery shopping for other people. And what’s also cool? As a Shipt shopper you won’t even have to do your own grocery shopping; you’ll get a free Shipt membership so you can have someone deliver your groceries — for free!

We talked to one shopper, Destiny Frith, from Nashville, who said she made about $600 a week as a Shipt shopper — while working completely on her own schedule.

Just sign up online. (The application is pretty simple.) Once you’re approved, pick which jobs you want to take, and Shipt will send you a prepaid card to buy the groceries, and you’ll deliver them to customers.

2. Not Your Classic Food-Delivery Job (No Delivery Required)

Instacart is similar to Shipt in that you get paid to do someone else’s grocery shopping, but if you’re not keen on actually delivering the groceries, then it’ll pay you to be an in-store shopper.

Yup — as an Instacart in-store shopper, you don’t even have to leave the store. You’ll get paid to simply fill people’s grocery orders. That’s it. You’ll still get to choose your own hours, and you get paid weekly. According to Glassdoor reviews, in-store shoppers earn about $14 an hour.

If you want to earn a bit more, you can become a full-service shopper, which includes delivering the goods.

The first step to becoming a shopper is to fill out some basic info and download the app.

Happy shopping!

Carson Kohler ([email protected]) is a staff writer at The Penny Hoarder. She actually doesn’t mind grocery shopping.