how much does it cost you to get to work?

Eliot · 27 Oct 2014 at 14:35

4% of Take home
Could be 0% if I pulled my finger out and walked, its about 3.70 a day

LOMS · 27 Oct 2014 at 14:38

£78.50 monthly.

Ascendancy · 27 Oct 2014 at 14:41

4.7% in fuel.

rossk26 · 27 Oct 2014 at 14:46

Dimple said:
People also don't add on their commuting hours to their working day.

^This

Without going off topic, I always work out my hourly rate from the minute I leave my house to the minute I get back.

Anyway my travel costs are: (just fuel only, hard to work out added depreciation doing an extra 2,300 miles a year. Insurance, tax, servicing, MOT would be needed anyway)

10 mile round trip @ ~30mpg x 230 working days / take home pay *100 =

2.6%

{SAS}TB · 27 Oct 2014 at 14:57

rossk26 said:
^This

OP doent mention accounting travel time, just fuel / ticket cost against wage

builder22 said:
had this idea earlier........

some people probably don't know or care about this, but if you know....

try work out what percentage of your wage you spend on fuel/train tickets etc

so..say it costs £10 to get to work for the week and you make £400 in that week 10/400 = 2.5%

no need to post how much you make or spend as that's not really the point
just the percentage

Luke_Bowman · 27 Oct 2014 at 15:29

16 miles round trip @ ~ 15p per mile so £2.40 a day, £12 a week

NOTHING

John40 · 27 Oct 2014 at 15:31

Nothing, I have my own business and work from home.

rossk26 · 27 Oct 2014 at 15:44

rossk26 · 27 Oct 2014 at 15:45

Luke_Bowman said:
16 miles round trip @ ~ 15p per mile so £2.40 a day, £12 a week

NOTHING

nothing? Even if you were on an extremely good wage of £240 a day, it's still 1%

Luke_Bowman · 27 Oct 2014 at 15:51

rossk26 said:
nothing? Even if you were on an extremely good wage of £240 a day, it's still 1%

Obviously not nothing but a very small amount, especially compared to what some others pay

Redgie · 27 Oct 2014 at 16:05

Between 15% and 20%

TheStarkFactor · 27 Oct 2014 at 17:02

3.87% of my monthly salary - spent on a monthly train ticket.

Flying_Hellfish · 27 Oct 2014 at 17:11

£0/0% (walk in)

Although I can choose to drive to work if I'm feeling extremely idle

acemastr · 27 Oct 2014 at 17:48

$2.40

9 miles each way.

$3.35 a gallon (premium...)

1.6% of take home roughly

The_Abyss · 27 Oct 2014 at 23:16

18 months of using Road Trip tells me that my car costs me £0.193 a mile including servicing, tyres and fuel but excluding depreciation. I have a pretty short journey to work so it works out at 1.3% of take home.

r22snapper · 28 Oct 2014 at 11:00

About £3 in the car or £0 on the bike

r22snapper · 28 Oct 2014 at 11:01

For a 14 mile round trip

atpbx · 28 Oct 2014 at 11:20

£15 in diesel a day.
Its a 140 mile round trip.
I should hasten to add that I dont pay that, the company does.

PaulStat · 28 Oct 2014 at 11:22

Judgeneo said:
Also interested, I only have a short cycle, but it would still be in the £100's per year.

EDIT: Just checked the expenses policy again, think I can claim this. Cheers!

Can you expand on that?

Edit: Nevermind just found the below, which doesn't apply to me as I only cycle to and from work

3) Mileage Allowance
Employers can pay up to 20 pence per mile tax free to employees who use their own cycles for business travel. Journeys between home and work are not business travel for this purpose.
Any employee considering joining a Cycle to Work scheme will need to consider whether they would prefer to use their own cycle and be able to claim up to the 20p per mile tax free for any business miles they travel, as opposed to having a cycle loaned to them by their employer.
Employees cannot claim the 20p per mile tax-free mileage allowance for business travel if they use a cycle loaned to them by their employer.

Beerbaron · 28 Oct 2014 at 11:27