How much is it costing you to go to work?

[undeterred]

Count the cost of fuel, tolls, parking, incidentals, daycare.

[Fovea]

1. I am disabled,

but a cheeseburger and fries will get me to the doctor's office and bacl on my bike and it is about a fourteen mile round trip.

[evlbstrd]

2. New sneakers.

$45/year.

[Wickerman]

3. my soul?

[liberal N proud]

4. I only have to pay for the fuel and it is killing me

Our company provides parking on site and the kids are old enough we don't need daycare.

I can't imagine those expenses on top of the gas

[Maine-ah]

5. no tolls, no parking, no daycare

no incidentals... basically about 20 bucks a week and I drive an SUV - Nissan Xterra. I also live in the sticks and work less than 7 miles from home. No public transportation.

[Xenotime]

6. About as much as it costs for me to keep the lights on.

[tedoll78]

7. Hmm..

I work three days a week and drive just a few miles, going grocery shopping on my last drive home for the weekend. Once home, I usually stay put.

One fill-up costs around $65, and I go to the gas station about twice a month.

[Phillycat]

8. My monthly trans pass is $110. I drive about 2 miles to the train station.

So maybe $140 a month? Which works out to $35 a week. Less than I'd be paying in gas, that's for sure. Although it didn't used to be - but parking where I work is almost impossible, and is at minimum $10 a day.

[RainDog]

9. I am interviewing for jobs

and I take the cost of housing, gas, etc. into consideration b/c lots of places do not factor this in when setting salaries (there is sort of a "set range" of salaries for diff. levels of the job.)

Then I do a cost comparison between where I live now and the other place to get an idea of what the salary might really mean. Then I read about the place online.

I don't even bother to apply for some jobs. One, for instance, is in the city that supposedly has the highest house prices in the U.S. If I cannot afford to live in the city, and if there is no light rail, etc. and if I will also have moving costs, I'm better off to wait for another job posting in a place that's livable for us proles.

In the meantime I'm still working on setting up my own thing to sell books online - my own and from independent brick and mortars that are not online but have thousands and thousands of books. If this works out, I'm gonna see if one of the places will pay me for my work by paying me 5 bucks or something and letting me get on the co's insurance policy. It's only for catastrophic care, but that's better than anything else I can get at this time.

[undeterred]

I have been out of work for 3 months

At first I passed up the out of town jobs and didn't apply, but now I will take anything. If I take a job in Milwaukee, it will cost me $35 per day for gas and parking and coffee or soda. Somewhere in the neighborhood of $800 per month. Hopefully I could find someone to drive with me or another place to live.

[RainDog]

15. I'm looking/interviewing anywhere

but, as I said, some places aren't worth it. I'd be better off working retail or something, even with a master's degree (I just finished a masters program in an area that has good job prospects and to update my skills so that I'm part of this century. )

I can walk, bike or take a bus anywhere I want to go now. But it's a University town and not a big city so the job mkt isn't so great... tho Forbes says it's one of the top five places to start a biz... and one reason is that labor is cheap with 45k students. :/

[Politicub]

10. I'm pretty lucky

I don't have to pay for tolls, and I drive an ancient Mazada Protege, which gets about 27-30 miles to the gallon. I probably spend about $100 for fuel each month - and I bet this is on the lower side for a lot of folks.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. My commute is about 6 miles a day with a car that averages around 32 miles a gallon, in town.

So, I spend about $4 a week. No parking, tolls, lunch, or daycare.

[MichiganVote]

12. Its a killer. About $65-70 a week.

[RebelOne]

13. I only have the expense of gas.

And I fill up once week, which costs me about $40.

[kestrel91316]

14. 45 miles a week, crappy old car getting 15 mpg city,

3 gal x $4.50 = $13.50 per week. About $50 a month, plus maintenance on the crappy old car (infrequent, but sometimes LARGE bills like this week's rack and pinion at $900).

Better than most. Walking would be cheaper and keep me slimmer.

[jakem]

16. my youth and vitality...

[carlyhippy]

17. 1/4 a tank of gas a week in my Nissan Xterra

around 21.00 a week, I guess that also includes driving to the store and what little other errands I have to drive to, parking free, no tolls, kids old enough to care for themselves.

[bunkerbuster1]

18. About 60 bucks per week.

My car manages about 28 mpg, it's 40 miles each way.

[Tennessee Gal]

19. I work at home as much as I can like today.

However I am a real estate agent and there is no escaping showing property to earn a living. I have cut down on it as much as I can by requiring potential buyers to get pre-approved and selecting only a few properties to look at in person.

[greendog]

20. Maybe 20 bucks a month. n/t

[madrchsod]

21. nothing --no job

my wife gets 45cts per mile....

[tammywammy]

22. It currently costs me $0.12 a mile to drive

With diesel at $4.69/gallon and I get 42 miles to the gallon and it's approximately 28 miles round trip to work and back.

That's $16.80/week. 1 tank of diesel lasts two weeks. I get 1 free fill up each month from work. So for a month it costs me about $33.60 to drive back and forth from work.

[Mountainman]

23. $140 a month

I commute 140 miles a day 20 to 21 days a month. My monthly bus pass is $140. I save over $500 a month by not driving.

[snooper2]

24. A quarter, dime, and 3 pennies

I get 45 MPG, at $3.93 gallong that's 8.73333 cents a mile...

2.2 miles to work

=

38.4 cents round trip :)

[IndianaJones]

25. $300+ per month. nt.

[mdmc]

26. $4.50

plus car upkeep

[slackmaster]

27. Gasoline is costing me about $220 per month now

It's pretty miserable, and I was already running such a lean budget due to aggressive savings that it has noticeably pinched my entertainment funds. I pay for gasoline all on one Chevron/Texaco credit card, so it's very easy to tell how much I spend on it. Vehicle maintenance has been minimal, and I am very capable of doing almost all of it myself.

I guess the good news is I do have a handle on my personal budget, but price increases in fuel and other things are very conspicuous. I don't want to reduce the amount I am putting away for the future (I'm 50 BTW), but I may have to in order to keep from dipping into credit card financing too often.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

28. There's a lot to be said for retirement.

Especially when you, and your wife, live 35 miles away from their (former) jobs.

I can't begin to tell how much we DON'T miss those commutes.

If we we're still working it would cost us about $300 a month..and we don't (never have) drive gas guzzlers. '91 Tercel and '93 Toyota pickup. (God bless Toyota)

[Obamanaut]

29. I am retired.

Two 16 oz bottles of water gets me the 18 mile round trip to my favorite coffee spot in the mornings, riding a recumbent bicycle. I refill my bottles with a Brita filter pitcher. 89 cents for coffee.

[L0oniX]

30. $15 ...my 99 Dodge Mini Caravan 4 cylinder 2.4L rox

[Raven]

31. $8 a day, $40 a week. Absolutely nothing I can do about it. I'm

in NH. No public transit and no one to carpool with. I am cutting down on other trips. I just dread heating season!

[IDemo]

32. The calories to pedal 45 miles per week

[spinbaby]

33. Less than $4.00 a day

20 miles each way but I drive a Prius. My company provides lunch. My kids are WAY too old for day care. I don't have to dress up for work.

[KamaAina]

34. $0.00.

That's right. Work pays for the bus pass as a benefit. Even if it didn't, I could still get it reimbursed through the state council I'm on.

Then again, remember the old adage, "You get what you pay for". I'm doing well to complete the roughly three-mile trip in under 45 minutes door-to-door. :grr:

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

35. Daycare + gas

I'm surprised hardly anyone here has to pay childcare expenses!

I estimate that between my husband and I we probably were spending about $190 a week on daycare + gas. I figure I probably spend around $50 a week on gas to go to work and husband probably spends about $10 on gas. We were spending $130 a week on daycare for our son. Right now my son is home with my husband for the summer (husband is a teacher) so we are currently spending nothing on daycare. My son will start kindergarten in the fall, and I estimate the after school care costs will be about $60 per week then. So we will probably be spending about $120 a week on gas and daycare in the fall. I may start to work from home more in the fall to save some gas money, as I have the ability to work both on site and remotely with my job.

[psychmommy]

36. about $240 p/m for gas

$50 p/m for parking. in a crappy garage that leaks stalagmites on my car.
$520 for summer camp.
i love my job, kid hates camp. we are broke.

[JuniperLea]

37. Ugh...

Weekly:

Gas $55

Drycleaning $20


I should be able to include work clothes in that too! I work in a very professional environment and have to dress a certain way... on my off time, it's jeans and t-shirts all the way!


I'm lucky... kids are all grown with jobs (and job costs) of their own. I really feel for people who have to pay childcare on top of everything else.

[Flabbergasted]

38. Between $1 and $2 per day. nt

[LWolf]

39. About $6.25 cents a day

Up from $3.00 a day a year ago.