The average income of trishaw riders in the 1950s and 1960s varied depending on their working hours and the fares they collected, ranging from as low as $3 to as high as $20 a day. In 1948, the Municipal Commission set fixed hire rates for trishaws. Riders could charge $0.20 for every half mile or part of it traveled, or $1.50 per hour and $0.40 for each additional quarter hour of travel.
