The company got away without admitting or denying the charges, but the details offered by the FTC painted a picture of a company engaged in wholesale deception in order to recruit drivers. In 2014 and 2015, the FTC said, Uber asserted on its website that its UberX drivers — that's the basic Uber service — earned median incomes of more than $90,000 a year in New York and more than $74,000 a year in San Francisco. ("Median" means half the drivers earned more and half earned less.) The truth, according to figures from 2013 to 2014, was that the median driver's income was only $61,000 in New York and $53,000 in San Francisco. Fewer than 10% of all drivers in those two cities made as much as Uber had claimed.