Per-parcel pay hides the hours. Sorting, loading, failed drops, the drive out to the round and back: none of it is paid, all of it is your time. Type in a real day, door to door, using the rates from your own pay statement. It works for any per-parcel courier work, not only Evri.
Nothing you type is saved or sent anywhere.
Work it out
Per hour
Enter parcels, rate and hours to see what the round really paid.
Before tax and National Insurance. You pay those yourself as a self-employed courier.
How to read the numbers
- After fuel is the cash left from the round today.
- After the full cost of the car also counts tyres, servicing, insurance and the car losing value, using HMRC's 55p a mile as a rough guide. Stop-start driving is hard on a car, so this is the honest number.
- Parcels an hour to beat the minimum wage is what the round has to average, on your rate, to pay £12.71 an hour after the car. If your real pace is below it, the rate is too low for that round.
- An employee on the minimum wage also gets holiday pay and has tax taken for them. A self-employed round should pay comfortably more.
When your rate changes
Per-parcel rates get revised, and a few pence a parcel is easy to shrug off. On 120 parcels a day, 10p less is £12 a day, about £60 over a five-day week. Put the old and new rate through the calculator with the same day's parcels and hours, and you see what the change costs per hour.
Keep your pay statements. If a payment looks short, compare it with the parcels you actually scanned that day.
Tax for self-employed couriers
Self-employed couriers register for Self Assessment and pay income tax and Class 4 NI on profit. Business miles reduce that profit, at 55p a mile for the first 10,000 from April 2026 (45p before). Work out what to set aside with the courier tax calculator.
Track every round in Rydealog
Rydealog logs each shift's hours, miles and pay as you drive, so you can see what every round really paid week by week. The AI pay check reads a screenshot of your pay statement and checks it against the shifts you logged, so a short payment does not slip past.
Track this automatically in Rydealog. Free on iPhone and Android.
FAQs
How much does Evri pay per parcel?
It varies by round, parcel type and contract, and it changes, so use the rate on your own pay statement. What matters is what that rate turns into per hour once you count every hour on the round and the cost of the miles. This calculator does that sum.
How many parcels an hour do I need to make minimum wage?
Take the National Living Wage (£12.71 from April 2026), multiply by your hours, add the cost of the miles, subtract collection pay, and divide by your rate per parcel. That is the number of parcels the round needs. The calculator shows it per hour for your own numbers.
Do Evri couriers pay their own tax?
Self-employed couriers register for Self Assessment and pay income tax and Class 4 National Insurance on profit. Business miles reduce that profit, at 55p a mile for the first 10,000 from April 2026. Use the courier tax calculator to estimate what to set aside.
Sources
Checked 2026-11 on GOV.UK: National Living Wage (£12.71 from 1 April 2026) and simplified expenses for vehicles (55p a mile). Fuel uses the UK gallon, 4.54609 litres. Rydealog is not affiliated with or endorsed by Evri. Evri is a trademark of its owner.
More from Rydealog
What to set aside for HMRC: courier tax calculator. Flex blocks: Amazon Flex pay calculator. A multi-drop day with van rent: round pay calculator. Charged for a missing parcel: what to do.