Cost of Commuting?????

[KCM]

a month?

Yeah. Just seems high to me.

 

[dems4me]

Yeah. Just seems high to me.

It seemed very high for me too... especially with the cost of housing averaging 1200-1800 mortages, then you have commuting bills of 1400 a month, etc... I was just wondering if its just me or if anyone else noticed these things.... then I thought maybe the table/calculator thing was wrong... it does seem very high.

 

[sleuth]

Don't forget the cost of your time. If you get paid $25/hour at work, and you commute 2 hours per day, then theoretically it's costing you $50/day to commute.

If you commuted only 15 minutes each way, then it's only costing you about $12.50 per day to commute. You could work that extra 1.5 hours and earn $37.50 for your pocket.

 

[sleuth]

$195.44 per month for me.
That's probably right. I buy a tank of gas per week at about $40 a pop, so there's $160+ right there.

 

[dems4me]

Don't forget the cost of your time. If you get paid $25/hour at work, and you commute 2 hours per day, then theoretically it's costing you $50/day to commute.

If you commuted only 15 minutes each way, then it's only costing you about $12.50 per day to commute. You could work that extra 1.5 hours and earn $37.50 for your pocket.

Gosh, this is getting more depressing by the minute... if time is indeed money and going at your set rate of 25 and hour, I'd lose at least 100.00 in time alone... someone shoot me now...



That does it... I'm going to start popping out lots of babies and then go on welfare... Watch out for the wave of little Dems running around and about a few years from now...

 

[aps45819]

I vote for option #1

 

[Mikeinsmd]

Don't forget the cost of your time. If you get paid $25/hour at work, and you commute 2 hours per day, then theoretically it's costing you $50/day to commute. If you commuted only 15 minutes each way, then it's only costing you about $12.50 per day to commute. You could work that extra 1.5 hours and earn $37.50 for your pocket.

But who gets paid to drive to work??? :shrug:

 

[sleuth]

But who gets paid to drive to work??? :shrug:

Nobody, but you wouldn't be commuting if you weren't working.
And if you didn't have to commute, you could work more hours and thus get paid more.

 

[aps45819]

But who gets paid to drive to work??? :shrug:

I always figure commute time into any proposed wage. If they're going to pay me for eight hours and it takes 2 hours commute each way, I'm doing 12 hour days for eight hours of pay. Kind of knocks down the hourly rate.

 

[dems4me]

Nobody, but you wouldn't be commuting if you weren't working.
And if you didn't have to commute, you could work more hours and thus get paid more.

plus if you weren't commuting you'd be at home eating something so now, you have to add in money for fast food into the budget too!!!

 

[cattitude]

Don't forget the cost of your time. If you get paid $25/hour at work, and you commute 2 hours per day, then theoretically it's costing you $50/day to commute.

If you commuted only 15 minutes each way, then it's only costing you about $12.50 per day to commute. You could work that extra 1.5 hours and earn $37.50 for your pocket.

That's the wrong way to figure it. You don't use work pay for your travel time because you wouldn't be at work if you lived closer. That's your "free" time that you would be doing other things, things at home or whatever. Not everyone can just work longer and claim the OT.

 

[dems4me]

I always figure commute time into any proposed wage. If they're going to pay me for eight hours and it takes 2 hours commute each way, I'm ding 12 hour days for eight hours of pay. Kind of knocks down the hourly rate.

ding?? Was that the bell for round number 10?


ding...ding...

 

[Mikeinsmd]

Nobody, but you wouldn't be commuting if you weren't working. And if you didn't have to commute, you could work more hours and thus get paid more.

Ok, if you wanna take that approach then you have to figure in overtime. So if you make $25.00/hr x 1.5 (OT) = $37.50/hr x 2 hrs/day = $75.00 x 22 days/month = $1,650.00 you're losing by commuting 2 hrs/day.

Now to really mess everyone up, lets think about holidays, vacation & sick days off that need to be deducted......

 

[dems4me]

That's the wrong way to figure it. You don't use work pay for your travel time because you wouldn't be at work if you lived closer. That's your "free" time that you would be doing other things, things at home or whatever. Not everyone can just work longer and claim the OT.

Wow catt!!! I didn't know ya' had it in ya!!! I think that's the longest post I'd ever seen you make!!!

 

[sleuth]

That's the wrong way to figure it. You don't use work pay for your travel time because you wouldn't be at work if you lived closer. That's your "free" time that you would be doing other things, things at home or whatever. Not everyone can just work longer and claim the OT.

Guess it depends on the job. For me, I get to charge OT at my regular hourly rate.

I make about $25/hour. Thus, I value my free time at $25/hour.

This also goes hand-in-hand when deciding to hire someone to do a job versus doing it myself. I think about how long it takes me vs. them to do the job as a starting point. Then I figure in whether I would rather work the extra hours to pay them, or do it myself. And of course, there's an intangible "enjoyment" factor. Will I enjoy doing it? Or will I be miserable doing it?

 

[Mikeinsmd]

I always figure commute time into any proposed wage. If they're going to pay me for eight hours and it takes 2 hours commute each way, I'm doing 12 hour days for eight hours of pay. Kind of knocks down the hourly rate.

Take a poor salaried sap like me x the number of hours I work and it can get depressing....

 

[sleuth]

Ok, if you wanna take that approach then you have to figure in overtime. So if you make $25.00/hr x 1.5 (OT) = $37.50/hr x 2 hrs/day = $75.00 x 22 days/month = $1,650.00 you're losing by commuting 2 hrs/day.

Now to really mess everyone up, lets think about holidays, vacation & sick days off that need to be deducted......

My overtime gets paid at my regular hourly rate. No time-and-a-half for me, but at least I get something.

 

[aps45819]

Now to really mess everyone up, lets think about holidays, vacation & sick days off that need to be deducted......

I'm a Druid, we don't get any holidays
We used to get the winter solstice and the spring equinox off, but the christians ruined it for us.

 

[Katie]

I pay $59.13 month for my commute. My commute round trip is five miles.

 

[dems4me]

Guess it depends on the job. For me, I get to charge OT at my regular hourly rate.

I make about $25/hour. Thus, I value my free time at $25/hour.

This also goes hand-in-hand when deciding to hire someone to do a job versus doing it myself. I think about how long it takes me vs. them to do the job as a starting point. Then I figure in whether I would rather work the extra hours to pay them, or do it myself. And of course, there's an intangible "enjoyment" factor. Will I enjoy doing it? Or will I be miserable doing it?

well in that case.. I'll say my free time is 25.00 an hour too!! Please let me know next time you need to borrow a truck!!
My "free time" is really not "free time" you see... its 25.00 an hour + gas...