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Part time job with a lot of driving my personal car, is this pay structure standard or above or below par. Thanks

US travel is like $0.70/mile set by the federal government Everything you listed is wrong. Find another job

Break this up into two pieces Reimbursement. Randomly choosing Ohio at $4/gal, that works out to $133.33 in fuel and $230 in “car reimbursement” per 1000 miles. Total of $363.33. The current federal limit for vehicle use is $760 per 1000 miles. That’s what the USGov thinks it costs to operate a car. This includes the insurance consideration you’ve raised in addition to oil changes, tires, wiper blades, whatever. They are wildly under-compensating for the use of your vehicle. And this is before whatever happens at 2k miles/mo where they stop paying the larger half of the car reimbursement that they are paying, at which point it just turns criminal. Then, wages. Draw a 100 mile circle around your house. Are there any cities? A rolling 60 on the highway is reasonable, but is that representative of your whole driving experience? You’ll need to decide that for yourself. Also, I’m assuming they pay round trip transit, but you don’t mention that. It would be expected that you get paid from your door leaving to your door coming home. The rest… 1 min per photo seems reasonable-ish. Quick greeting, snap, snap, snap, and leave. You’re not hanging out and being social, but they’re not paying you to be. So wages is a bit of a question. Vehicle reimbursement is a shit show. I’d point blank ask why we’re not using the federal rate and see what the answer is. I have a feeling it will tell you everything you need to know.

If I understand this, you are not actually getting paid per hour, you are getting paid per mile and per photo. They are paying $24/60 = $0.40 per mile of driving for a 'time allowance' + $0.23 per mile of driving for a 'car allowance' plus $(gas price)/30 per mile for 'mileage', plus ($24/60) = $0.40 per photo with a cap of 60 photos and and a cap of 2000 miles, I can't tell which. So, you get $0.63 per mile and $0.40 per photo no matter how long it actually takes you to drive or take the photos (or process them or report/send them). Basically they are paying for your gas if you have a 30 mpg vehicle plus a total of $0.63 / mile and $0.40 per photo, regardless of your time and with some caps. You'd be silly to work past the mileage or photo cap. This seems like a scheme to convert the value of your vehicle into cash in your pocket while earning $0.40 per photo, a photo that may typically cost you 10 minutes or more to take, if you include the drive time. This is roughly equivalent to selling your car and taking a job that pays something like $2.50/hour, except that you have to pay income taxes on the value of your car and then pay sales tax when you buy a replacement for the car. The only way this makes sense is if most accidents take you only a couple of minutes to get there and you get to take many photos of each accident, and you found a really good deal on a hybrid Corolla. If you really have to drive100 miles in traffic for a job, you'll be hemorrhaging money.