For journalists and researchers

Direct email for press inquiries, methodology questions, and data requests:

data@gigindex.org

We aim to reply within 48 hours on weekdays. For deadline-driven press inquiries, mention the deadline in the subject line and we'll prioritize.

Quote-friendly statistics computed live from the current snapshot (2026-Q2). Each is written so it can be lifted verbatim into a story; click the copy button to grab the sentence as plain text. Numbers update with every data refresh, so re-grab on the day of publication.

For verification language to put in a story's sourcing note, the verification page has the per-city audit (what was directly checked, what was assumed, source URL with Wayback archive).

Two ways to embed Gig Index data on third-party sites or stories.

Per-city iframe cards render a live, themed card with the city's headline number, confidence label, and a link back to the full data:

On any city page, the Embed this card link at the bottom reveals a ready-to-paste iframe snippet. The card updates automatically when the data does, so embedded stories never go stale on you.

Per-city preview PNGs are pre-rendered as 1200×630 OpenGraph images at stable URLs:

Each image shows the city, gross hourly USD, the verification status, and (for verified cities) the editorial label describing the source. Free under CC BY-SA 4.0; please link back to the city page when embedding.

If you use Gig Index in research, journalism, or policy work, please cite it. Update the access date and quarter to match your citation conventions.

Gig Index. (2026). Gig Index: Quarterly index of gig delivery pay across cities globally [Data set]. Retrieved 2026-05-02, from https://gigindex.org/

@dataset{gigindex_2026,
  author       = {{Gig Index}},
  title        = {Gig Index: Quarterly index of gig delivery pay across cities globally},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://gigindex.org/},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-05-02},
  license      = {CC BY-SA 4.0}
}

For inline attribution in articles, “Gig Index, an open-data project tracking app-based delivery pay across cities” works and is the format we prefer for first reference. Subsequent mentions can shorten to “Gig Index.”

All public data is on the data page: quarterly CSVs by year/quarter, plus the live JSON snapshot used by the interactive map. Per-city source citations are on the sources page; methodology is on the methodology page.

For HIGH-confidence cities, the verification page shows a per-city audit: value published, source URL with Wayback archive, what was directly verified against the page, what was assumed, what would invalidate the claim, and the re-verify-by date. This is the page to link to in a story footnote.

For “X vs. Y” story angles, the compare page renders any two or three cities side by side: gross hourly, net, hours of work for one month's rent, wage benchmarks, and source citations. The URL encodes the selection (/compare?a=seattle&b=berlin), so the link is shareable and can be embedded directly in a story.

Need a slice that isn't published (a single country, a single metric across cities, the master proof CSV with archive URLs and verification timestamps)? Email us and we'll send it. We're also happy to walk through the methodology or specific city derivations by email; the headline figures often need context that doesn't fit on the city panel (see the note on engaged-time floor vs. actual earnings, for example).

We're happy to fact-check a draft paragraph before publication. Send the relevant sentences and we'll flag any errors against the current snapshot. We don't ask for embargo, right of review, or copy approval. If we find an error we've already published in our data after your story runs, we'll log it on the errata page and email you so you can correct.