Many of you know I admire the business Abhiraj has built, mainly because of positive externalities. This post stood out to me. I compared it with the government’s PLFS 2025 data on urban workers. Per hour, the average UC partner earns more than the average worker in every urban category. A UC partner takes home about ₹315 an hour after all costs. An urban salaried graduate earns about ₹170 an hour, and a postgraduate about ₹235. The UC figure also includes travel time between jobs, while the PLFS hours for salaried workers do not include the commute. Exclude travel and UC hourly wage is probably unbeatable. The average partner works about 22 hours a week and takes home ₹30,700 a month. The median urban salary is ₹18,000, for about 50 hours of work a week. The top 20% of partners take home ₹49,000 a month, which is more than the average urban graduate earns. Don’t come at me, but I find this impressive. The income level is the part I care about most. A common cutoff for a middle class household in India is ₹5 lakh a year. The top 20% of partners clear it on their own, and many more probably cross it once there is a second earner at home. At these incomes they pay no income tax under the new regime. This is where India’s consuming class begins. A full-time Zomato rider takes home about ₹80 an hour after fuel and vehicle costs, so a UC partner earns about four times as much per hour. UC also covers every active partner with group insurance, including life cover of up to ₹10 lakh. That's safety. More could be done here and i am sure (and hope) more will be done but That is not nothing. You can make many arguments about gig work. But 50,000 urban jobs are still 50,000 urban jobs. I will stop now but I think this is something that needed to be said. These UC fellows can be too humble by half.