GTA Online Pizza Delivery Money Guide: How to Make Cash Without Losing Your Mind

TL;DR (for people who hate reading but love money)

Pizza Deliveries in GTA Online are a boringly reliable side hustle.

• $21,250-$22,500 per run if you’re fast and not stupid

• 3 locations = ~$65k in 20–30 minutes

• 48-minute cooldown per location, so don’t camp one shop like a stray cat

• Best done solo, invite-only

• Pizza is filler money, not a main grind

• Miss the Hot & Fresh bonus and you’re basically working for exposure

Do all three locations back-to-back, then move on. Pizza funds crime. Pizza is not the crime.

Pizza won’t make you rich. But it will quietly, reliably, and without drama fund your next bad decision.

And honestly, in Los Santos, that already makes it one of the more respectable careers. 🍕💀

You’re about to spend half an hour delivering pizza on a scooter while the city tries to kill you. You might as well be properly equipped. Grab a Pizza Cutter Wheel and an Insulated Pizza Delivery Bag from Amazon, so at least something in this job feels professional. If you’re going to be exploited by Rockstar, do it with accessories.

Read our CRIMENET GTA Online Weekly Money Guide before you clock in like a minimum-wage criminal.

Let’s get one thing straight. This is not a heroic job. You are not saving the city. You are not climbing the criminal food chain. You are delivering lukewarm pizza on a scooter that handles like it’s made of damp cardboard, while Los Santos does its absolute best to murder you.

And yet… this stupid little side hustle prints reliable cash if you do it properly. So let’s strip away the roleplay nonsense and talk money, efficiency, and cold-blooded optimisation.

The job, brutally explained

You start a Pizza This… delivery at one of three locations. Each run gives you five deliveries and a 10-minute Heat timer. Finish all five before the timer dies and the game pats you on the head like a good little errand boy.

Fail the timer and Rockstar quietly takes your wallet, laughs, and tells you to try harder.

The money (the only reason we’re here)

Each pizza pays a flat $2,000. That’s $10,000 for five, guaranteed. Then there are tips, which only exist if you’re fast. Then there’s the Hot & Fresh bonus, which is where the real money hides.

A perfect run gives you:

• Base pay: $10,000

• Tips: $1,250 to $2,500

• Hot & Fresh bonus: $10,000

Total: $21,250 to $22,500 per run.

This takes 6 to 10 minutes if you’re not driving like a chimpanzee who just discovered speed bumps.

At this point you’ve realised you’re basically a courier with a death wish. Fine. Lean into it.

A Motorcycle Dash Cam and Touchscreen Riding Gloves exist on Amazon, and yes, people actually buy them. Probably after pizza deliveries.

If Los Santos insists on chaos, at least record it and keep your fingers intact.

The catch (Rockstar’s favourite word)

Each pizza location has a 48-minute cooldown. Not per session. Per location.

This is Rockstar saying: “We’ll allow you to have fun, but only in small, carefully rationed portions, like a Victorian child with tuberculosis.”

So grinding one location over and over is for idiots.

The correct way to grind pizza (do not improvise)

There is exactly one smart loop:

1. Deliver at Location A

2. Immediately go to Location B

3. Immediately go to Location C

Congratulations. You just made $63,750 to $67,500 in roughly 20 to 30 minutes.

Then you stop.

You do not wait around like a confused pigeon. You do not complain on Reddit. You go do other short money jobs while the cooldown ticks down in the background.

Pizza is a side hustle, not a religion.

Solo vs multiplayer (aka: who ruins your day)

Solo, invite-only session is king.

Public lobbies turn this job into a live-action experiment in human cruelty. You are slow, fragile, and dressed like a walking target. Someone in a jet will see you and think, “Yes. This feels right.”

Multiplayer only works if:

• Everyone is doing their own deliveries

• Or one lunatic deliberately draws attention elsewhere

Pizza does not scale with teamwork. It scales with not being exploded.

Route planning (this is where adults win)

Open the map before you move. Plan the order. Every time.

Do not blindly follow GPS like a lost pensioner. Waypoint one stop at a time, because the in-game GPS is programmed by someone who hates you personally.

At drop-offs:

• Stop clean

• Dismount instantly

• Sprint to door

• Sprint back

Every second counts. This is logistics, not Fast & Furious: Breadstick Drift.

The scooter and unlocks

Do one perfect run and you unlock the Pizza Boy trade price. Deliver 50 pizzas and you unlock the outfit, which proves to the world that your dignity died a long time ago.

Some players report the job occasionally lets you use your own delivery bike, which feels like upgrading from a shopping trolley to an actual vehicle.

Why pizza is secretly good

Pizza deliveries are:

• Low risk

• Predictable

• Skill-based, not RNG hell

• Immune to bad luck if you’re competent

You always know what you’re getting paid. No setups. No heist partners who “need five minutes” and vanish for half an hour. No moral lectures.

Just you, a box of grease, and the clock.

You’ve finished the run, the box is empty, and your dignity is somewhere under a bus tyre. Time to spend the money.

Reward yourself with a Heated Pizza Stone or a Cast Iron Skillet from Amazon, so you can cook real food while pretending this was all part of the plan.

Pizza delivery funded dinner. That’s called a business model.

FAQ (questions asked by people who already messed this up)

Is Pizza Delivery actually good money in GTA Online? Yes, and that’s the mildly depressing part. It’s not glamorous, it’s not exciting, and it won’t make you feel like a criminal mastermind. But it is consistent. In a city built entirely on betrayal, bugs, and flying motorcycles, consistency is rare and therefore valuable.

What’s the maximum payout per delivery run? A perfect run pays up to $22,500. That means all five pizzas delivered before the Heat timer expires, no detours, no crashes, no philosophical pauses at red lights. Miss the timer and the game quietly shaves money off your pay like an annoyed accountant.

Can I grind pizza deliveries nonstop? No. Rockstar installed a 48-minute cooldown per location specifically to stop you from discovering joy. You rotate all three locations once, then you leave. Anyone standing around waiting for a pizza shop to reset has fundamentally misunderstood how time works.

Is pizza better solo or in multiplayer? Solo. Always solo. Public lobbies turn pizza delivery into a live-fire training exercise where everyone else is armed and bored. Multiplayer only works if everyone is running their own deliveries and nobody decides today is the day they feel like griefing for attention.

Should I follow the GPS blindly? Only if you enjoy unnecessary U-turns, illegal lefts, and existential regret. The correct method is planning the order yourself and setting a waypoint one delivery at a time. The GPS is not your friend. It is a suggestion engine designed by someone who hates efficiency.

Is the Pizza Boy scooter worth buying? Only after unlocking the trade price. Paying full price for it is like buying a branded shopping cart out of loyalty. Unlock the discount first, then decide how committed you are to this particular humiliation.

Do tips really matter or is that just flavour text? They matter. Tips and the Hot & Fresh bonus are the difference between a solid payout and wondering why you even bothered. Miss the Heat timer and the game treats you like you showed up late to work and asked for praise anyway.

Is pizza delivery better than heists or businesses? No, and it never will be. Pizza is filler money. It’s what you do between real crimes, not instead of them. If pizza delivery is your primary income stream, something has gone catastrophically wrong in your criminal career planning.

Can the pizza job bug out or disappear from the map? Yes, because this is GTA Online. If the icon vanishes, it’s usually a map blip setting issue, not a conspiracy. Fix it, move on, don’t spiral.

So what’s the final, correct way to use pizza deliveries? You run all three locations back to back, you always aim for Hot & Fresh, you leave the moment the cooldown hits, and you never emotionally invest in the job. Pizza delivery will not make you rich, but it will quietly fund your weapons, ammo, and next terrible decision without drama.