What % of your take home pay goes on commute costs?

Vonhelmet said:
But travel to your base, if you have one, would not be paid for.

I’m pretty sure anyway... I’m gearing up to be wrong now...
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Nah, you're right, stick at it...you've already got Jez from negative tax to zero, keep at it and you might get him to actually pay some :p




sorry Jez! ;)
 
UTmaniac said:
Over the year, it costs me close to one chain; cassette; pair of tyres for my commuter bike... So ~£50 (and that's allowing for a pair of nice commuting tyres), less than 1%.
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At least you didn't say 0% like other cyclists :)

I've had 5 bikes in 6 years plus spare tyres, inner tubes and other bits so it would have probably worked out cheaper in my car.
 
Had a job change last few months. Going from a 1 mile each way commute to 40 mile each way commute.
 
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I fly everywhere by private helicopter that looks like airwolf, even when I go to the offy. Costs around 20k per week including pilot fees, fuel etc so around 0.5% of my take home.
 
I used to live 2.5 miles from work, now I live about 25 miles away and I actually think I prefer it.

I work for quite a big company and definitely one of the largest employers in the town (~1,000 employees) and it's nice to not see people from work everywhere when I go out at the weekend. I also feel more like I'm getting away from work when I go home, rather than going almost just round the corner.
 
I have a car that I tax and insure but never commute with.

I cycle 99% of the time and I think used the tram and jogged a couple of times.

Doing the maths of a few tram journeys some tyres and spares brings me to around 0.1% of my income.
 
Seems like 2 - 7% is "normal" A lot of people under 5%! Well with this in mind I have an informal chat today for a new job 5.5 miles from my home instead of 25 miles. Interesting though what a lot of people get paid, and job perks for fuel etc.
 
For me, 0% as I cycle everyday. I wouldn't include parts for my bike, because even if I didn't commute I'd ride as it's a hobby anyway. Wear on chain/cassette etc. is probably a couple of hundred per year, so 0.11111111111111% - my wife's car is a little 3cyl C1, so uses about a tank a month? So 50 euros a month, 600 a year, or 0.789% of her salary.

You'd probably want to factor in 500 a year in car costs though, and I haven't included car insurance, but that's just the general cost of the car and not directly linked to commuting.

I used to work in London, live in Old Hatfield and I'd spent most my wages on a season ticket and it was brutal. Not only brutal seeing the money go for just getting to work, but also the utter **** of having to be on a train for 2-3hrs a day.
 
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