Uber vs Car: Seattle Cost Breakdown

Sarabeth Jaffe
3 min readDec 24, 2016

Three months ago, my partner and I moved across the country from the East Coast to Seattle, Washington. In our three months, we’ve used ride-sharing apps like Uber a hefty amount of times… Running late to a meeting? Can’t carry the groceries on the bus? Meeting up with some friends and don’t feel like taking the public bus? Take an Uber.

Needless to say, it’s felt like we’ve been taking a lot of Ubers. As a finance conscious person and someone who just likes to work with numbers I thought I’d investigate:

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