Reading your Earnings tab
What the big number is, what the two rings mean, and how This month and This week differ from your year to date.
Last checked 12/09/2026.
What it is
The Earnings tab, the first screen after you sign in. One headline figure, two rings, your year to date, and how this month and this week are going.
The headline rate
The big number is an hourly rate, and you choose which one from the selector beside it:
| Option | What it means |
|---|---|
| True £/hr | After fuel for every mile including your commute, insurance and tax. The default, and the honest one. |
| Before tax and expenses £/hr | Gross earnings divided by hours. Roughly what the platforms advertise. |
Your choice is remembered. The supporting figures underneath change with it, so they always explain the number above them.
The two rings
- Business miles tracks your car or van miles against the 10,000-mile threshold, where the HMRC rate drops. The badge shows the rate you are earning right now. Past 10,000 it flips to counting the miles beyond it.
- Personal allowance tracks your profit through the tax bands. While you are under your allowance it shows what is left of it; after that it tracks your progress through each band and resets as you move up one.
Both rings always cover everything you logged, whichever earnings you have picked for the rest of the page. The mileage threshold is per person per tax year, not per app, and so is the personal allowance.
The allowance ring counts your other income as well as your driving profit, because a job or rent uses the same allowance. A driver with a salary who saw only the driving would think most of their allowance was still left.
Year to date
Your totals for the selected tax year: gross earnings, other income, current balance, business miles, business fuel, estimated tax and your true hourly rate. An account with nothing logged still shows the full set, zeroed, because a wall of dashes tells you nothing. Change the tax year from the year shown at the top right.
This month and this week
The same arithmetic over a shorter period. The switch beside the headline figure swaps it between current balance and take-home pay, and remembers which you prefer.
This week uses the week start day you set in Settings, so it matches how you actually think about your week.
Which earnings
The menu at the top of the page appears once there is more than one thing to look at: two platforms, or a platform and some other income. It offers only what you have actually logged, and nothing twice.
| Option | What it shows |
|---|---|
| All Platforms | Your driving across every app. This is where the page opens, because JoltMile is about what the driving earns. |
| All Earnings | The driving and your other income together. Gross earnings, take-home pay and current balance all take the other income in. |
| All Other Income | Only the money from outside the driving. Shown when you have more than one other income source. |
| Uber Eats Only, Photography Only | One platform or one source on its own. |
An other income view has no hours or miles behind it, so the hourly rate and the chart step aside and the page shows four figures: gross, take-home, current balance and estimated tax. This month and This week show what came in and any tax taken off at source.
Estimated tax never narrows. It is always the tax on everything you logged, less any PAYE tax already paid, because a tax bill belongs to a person rather than to one app. Below zero, it means HMRC owes you.
Expenses are not tagged by platform, so every driving view counts all of them. An other income view counts none, because every one of them is a cost of the driving.
Mistakes to avoid
- Comparing your true £/hr against a job's gross wage. Compare like with like.
- Reading the tax estimate as a bill. It is a running estimate for setting money aside.
- Assuming the two rings follow the Which earnings menu. They never do, on purpose.
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