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Lyft main competitors are Airbnb, Workday, and Square.

Competitor Summary. See how Lyft compares to its main competitors:

  • Avis Budget Group has the most employees (30,000).
  • Employees at Airbnb earn more than most of the competitors, with an average yearly salary of $145,035.
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Lyft vs competitors

CompanyFounding dateZippia scoreHeadquarters# of LocationsRevenueEmployees
2012
4.4
San Francisco, CA25$5.8B4,369
2009
4.7
San Francisco, CA8$44.0B22,800
1983
4.8
Mountain View, CA10$16.3B10,600
1946
4.1
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ2$5.4B30,000
1995
4.6
San Jose, CA6$10.3B13,300
2013
4.4
San Francisco, CA1$10.7B6,000
2008
4.6
Chicago, IL4$492.6M6,000
2008
4.6
San Francisco, CA8$11.1B5,597
2009
4.2
San Francisco, CA8$24.1B3,835
2012
4.9
San Francisco, CA1$1.5B10,000
2004
4.3
San Francisco, CA6$1.4B3,900
2005
4.8
Pleasanton, CA14$8.4B12,500
1856
3.6
Memphis, TN1$2.1M125
2010
4.9
San Francisco, CA1$44.0B22,800
-
4.6
Stamford, CT2$292.7M200
1955
4.7
Cincinnati, OH2$1.2B3,890
2003
4.7
Palo Alto, CA5$2.9B2,000
1982
4.4
Buford, GA4$45.0M50
Bessemer Venture Partners
1911
3.2
Menlo Park, CA5$1.2M7

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Lyft salaries vs competitors

Among Lyft competitors, employees at Airbnb earn the most with an average yearly salary of $145,035.

Compare Lyft salaries vs competitors

CompanyAverage salaryHourly salarySalary score
Lyft
$67,087$32.25-
Uber Technologies
$111,381$53.55-
Intuit
$106,118$51.02-
Avis Budget Group
$27,158$13.06-
eBay
$107,595$51.73-
DoorDash
$84,776$40.76-

Compare Lyft job title salaries vs competitors

CompanyHighest salaryHourly salary
Lyft
$72,030$34.63
Square
$148,231$71.27
Palantir
$134,484$64.66
Intuit
$129,419$62.22
Workday
$123,038$59.15
Uber Technologies
$118,013$56.74
Bessemer Venture Partners
$103,571$49.79
eBay
$76,552$36.80
Airbnb
$68,190$32.78
First Transit
$65,638$31.56
CAB Incorporated
$46,171$22.20
DoorDash
$41,236$19.82
Yelp
$38,854$18.68
Instacart
$37,793$18.17
Über
$34,905$16.78
Premier Transportation, Yellow Cab, Checker Cab, & Ride The Roo
$34,702$16.68
Groupon
$30,833$14.82
Avis Budget Group
$26,559$12.77
KAYAK
$26,171$12.58

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Lyft demographics vs competitors

Compare gender at Lyft vs competitors

Job titleMaleFemale
Groupon53%47%
eBay54%46%
Intuit55%45%
Square56%44%
Avis Budget Group57%43%
Lyft69%31%
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Female
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75%
50%
25%
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0%
25%
50%
75%
100%

Compare race at Lyft vs competitors

CompanyWhiteHispanic or LatinoBlack or African AmericanAsianUnknownDiversity score
57%20%11%7%5%
9.7
60%15%12%8%5%
9.9
58%14%9%14%4%
9.8
61%13%11%12%4%
9.5
54%18%9%14%5%
9.7
50%20%9%13%9%
9.5

Lyft revenue vs competitors

Lyft revenue is $5.8B. Among it's competitors, the company with the highest revenue is Uber Technologies, $44.0B . The company with the lowest revenue is Bessemer Venture Partners, $1.2M.

Lyft and similar companies CEOs

CEOBio
Joseph A. Ferraro
Avis Budget Group

Joe Ferraro was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer for Avis Budget Group in June 2020, following a six-month period as interim CEO. Prior to this, Mr. Ferraro served as President, Americas, for Avis Budget Group. In this role, Mr. Ferraro was responsible for the Company’s Avis, Budget, Payless and Zipcar brands in North and South America, including Latin America and the Caribbean. Mr. Ferraro was previously Senior Vice President of Operations, North America, where he oversaw all Avis and Budget car and truck rental operations in the United States and Canada, including airport and local market locations. He has 40 years of experience with Avis Budget Group, holding various positions of increasing responsibility. Mr. Ferraro holds a Bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University.

Jamie Iannone
eBay

Jamie Iannone is a purpose driven global leader and digital, product & technology innovator with more than two decades of ecommerce leadership. Prior to returning to eBay, Jamie spent six years with Walmart as COO of Walmart eCommerce, CEO of SamsClub.com and EVP of Membership & Technology where he helped lead to record-high ecommerce growth and launch the Sam’s Club Scan & Go, Ask Sam, Sam’s Club Now and Club Pickup technologies. During his four years with Barnes & Noble as President, Digital Products, Jamie helped grow Barnes & Noble and Nook Media from a 0% market share of the e-book industry to a 25% share.

Kedar Deshpande
Groupon

Sasan K. Goodarzi
Intuit

Sasan Goodarzi has served as a member of Atlassian's board of directors since April 2018. Mr. Goodarzi is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Intiuit Inc. From May 2016 to December 2018, Mr. Goodarzi served as executive vice president and general manager of Intuit’s Small Business and Self-Employed Group. Prior to that, Mr. Goodarzi held multiple general management positions during two separate stints at Intuit, including as senior vice president and general manager for the company’s ProTax division and Intuit Financial Services from 2004 to 2010, as chief information officer leading Intuit’s transition to the cloud from 2011 to 2013, and as general manager and executive vice president of TurboTax from 2013 to 2016. Prior to joining Intuit, Mr. Goodarzi worked for Invensys, a global provider of industrial automation, transportation and controls technology, serving as global president of the products group. He also held a number of senior leadership roles in the automation control division at Honeywell. Mr. Goodarzi earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at the University of Central Florida and a master's degree in business administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Jack Patrick Dorsey
Square

Jack Patrick Dorsey (born November 19, 1976) is an American billionaire technology entrepreneur and philanthropist who is the co-founder and CEO of Twitter, and the founder and CEO of Square, a financial payments company.

Aneel Bhusri
Workday

Aneel Bhusri (born February 14, 1966) is an American business executive. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Workday. He is also a partner at Greylock Partners and was a member of Intel's board of directors between 2014 and 2019.

Jeremy Stoppelman
Yelp

Jeremy Stoppelman (born November 10, 1977) is an American business executive. He is the CEO of Yelp, which he co-founded in 2004. Stoppelman obtained a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1999. After briefly working for @Home Network, he worked at X.com and later became the VP of Engineering after the company was renamed PayPal. Stoppelman left PayPal to attend Harvard Business School. During a summer internship at MRL Ventures, he and others came up with the idea for Yelp Inc. He turned down an acquisition offer by Google and took the company public in 2012.

Brian Chesky
Airbnb

Brian Joseph Chesky (born August 29, 1981) is an American billionaire businessman and industrial designer. He is the co-founder and CEO of the peer-to-peer lodging service Airbnb. Chesky was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People of 2015".

Alexander Caedmon Karp
Palantir

Alexander Karp (born October 2, 1967) is an American businessman and the co-founder and CEO of the software firm Palantir Technologies.

Dara Khosrowshahi
Uber Technologies

Dara Khosrowshahi (born May 28, 1969) is an Iranian-American businessman and the chief executive officer of Uber. Khosrowshahi was previously CEO of Expedia Group, a company that owns several travel fare aggregators. He is also a member of the board of directors of BET.com, and Hotels.com, and previously served on the board of The New York Times Company.

What employees say about Lyft's competitors

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Pros of working at Lyft

None

Lyft benefits

I don't like any of the benefits at all. They boss you around and treat you like crap.

Cons of working at Lyft

Everything.

What do you like best about Lyft's CEO and the leadership team?

Nothing

How would you improve Lyft's culture?

At least treating employees like people. Have real numbers to where people can address concerns instead of just through the app.

How did you prepare for the Lyft interview?

I did not really prepare I just went in.

How does your compensation at Lyft compare to the industry average?

Much less in the industry average

What's the diversity at Lyft like?

There is not a lot of diverse demographics. It's nothing but rich white people

What brings you the most joy at Lyft?

When I leave

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