How much money would you say you spend each week commuting to work? And why?
Posted by Fossilcosine831@reddit | AskAnAmerican | View on Reddit | 141 comments
I am just curious based on how far you travel? How you travel? Cost for gas? What you do for your break/lunch? And how you cut down costs?
Sweet-Illustrator-27@reddit
$1.00 give or take - it's the breakfast I eat while I start up my laptop in my home office
PMMeYourPupper@reddit
My bus ride to work is 40 minutes each way (for a 17 mile trip, ugh) and work pays for my bus pass entirely, so $0 out of my pocket. On the rare occasion that I drive, it's about 3/4 gallon of gas each way, so depending on gas prices up to $7 total and then $25 for parking.
fakename4141@reddit
$635/month if I commute 5 days a week, not including depreciation (about $150/month) or car payment (paid off). Includes gas, tolls, parking, and insurance. Mostly I commute 3-4 days a week, but insurance and parking are fixed costs.
Public transport would be around $100 less than gas/tolls/parking, would take about 1.5 hours more/day, and I’d still need to keep the car for personal use.
WingedSeven@reddit
nada. I'm in walking distance since i work on my college campus
deltagma@reddit
I drive a car in Hawaii… probably $20 a week… give or take $5
Suppafly@reddit
None, I work from home. If I did commute to my current job, it'd be 9 miles and about 15 minutes of driving each way.
MaleficentCoconut594@reddit
$0. I work from my living room
Pre Covid/remote, between gas and wear & tear on my vehicle, probably around $100/week
el_butt@reddit
Zero dollars. I have an ebike and plug it in at work.
Kind-Report9966@reddit
Don't you feel less than others for riding your bike to work?
LoisLaneEl@reddit
They should feel less than others for having to charge their bike rather than just riding a normal one
Fappy_as_a_Clam@reddit
Commuting is one of the only situations where I'll accept someone using an ebike, I imagine you'd sweat less and I can see how that would be desirable.
SovereignAxe@reddit
What do you have against ebikes? Why wouldn't it makes sense for someone to want to sweat less for all of their mobility concerns? Going to the post office, a grocery store or any other type of store, a friend's house, etc? Why aren't ebikes acceptable for those trips?
Fappy_as_a_Clam@reddit
Because it's more acceptable to be sweaty in those situations.
I'm a recreational cyclist, you're not ever going to convince me that ebikes are much more than laziness in almost all cases. When I'm out on the rail trails around me and see able bodied people on ebikes I judge them. I guess it's better than nothing, but not by much...shit, at that point just drive.
I was talking to a guy a few weeks ago that was bragging that he could go like 25mph on one. That's not impressive when it's a machine doing it for you, it's like someone bragging they can dunk on a 6ft basketball goal.
mustachechap@reddit
Why do you care how people bike?
I think they are fun as hell, and I’d enjoy owning one if they were cheaper
ibeerianhamhock@reddit
Also an avid cyclist and I kinda feel like these people on ebikes are are just having a good time doing the same thing we're doing in an accessible format for them.
What I will say and we probably find common ground on is that a traditional cyclist that's developed the ability to go on fast rides like 20+ mph is probably also going to know how to handle a bike, be alert, watch for danger/pedestrians/etc.
Someone with little cycling experience going 25 mph on a bike is absurdly unsafe. I don't feel like it's lazy to e-bike, but I do think it's dangerous.
SovereignAxe@reddit
Laziness? Who cares, dude? They're not in a competition to see who can put the most effort into getting around town.
So you'd rather people that ride ebikes just get in a car and contribute to traffic? More cars on the road seems like a winning goal /s
Fappy_as_a_Clam@reddit
I really don't care, if I'm being honest. Not passed judging them for being lazy if they are able bodied.
However, I'm not one of those FuckCars morons, and given the choice, yes I'd rather the people on ebikes just drive a car then get on a busy multiuse trail and ride their ebike 20+mph with little to no regard of trail etiquette/safety.
So go ahead and keep using your ebike, I'll just roll my eyes and you can keep right on going.
nemo_sum@reddit
No, I feel like more. Image if you could commute for free and get a workout and boost your mental health, all at the same time?
Well you can! And I do!
rawbface@reddit
It's an ebike tho. Not only does that cut the workout part, but it still leaves a carbon footprint.
nemo_sum@reddit
OP has an ebike. The user I replied to seemed to be talking about bikes in general; plus you can still pedal an e-bile and only use the motor to assist on climbs if you want.
PikaPonderosa@reddit
Lol wut?
It's not like they ride a bike to work because they got too many DUIs or are a circus bear.
el_butt@reddit
While they pay for gas, registrations, car payments, and insurance? Not even close.
Arleare13@reddit
I spend $34/week. That's the NYC subway's weekly fare cap, so it's always exactly that or less.
jfchops2@reddit
Do you have to buy a weekly pass for this price or will it stop charging your credit card if you're paying as you go with the same card once you reach that point?
I don't think I've ever taken enough subway trips to spend that much when visiting but would be cool to know for the future
Arleare13@reddit
No need to buy a weekly pass, it’s all automatic as long as you’re using the same card or device. Basically if you ride 12 or more times in a 7-day period, you hit the cap and it’s free for the remainder of the week, and if you ride less than that you just pay the usual $2.90/ride.
jfchops2@reddit
$0. I'm a 20 minute walk from my office and generally only go in for half days so I'll eat lunch at home before or after the office
I would be fine with a train commute if it's under 30 minutes door to door but I'll never take a job that requires commuting by car again
Crayshack@reddit
I'd say that on average I make ~$100 dollars on travel. I get comped for mileage, get per diem if I spend the night, and I get to rack up some hotel loyalty points. How much traveling I do varies a lot per week. Sometimes I'm home all week and sometimes I'm driving hundreds of miles. But, I did the math on my mileage and even after accounting for gas and maintenance, I'm coming out ahead. Same thing with per diem because I can usually come in well under it when it comes to buying food. So, if I do any sort of traveling for work, I'm coming out ahead.
pirawalla22@reddit
I travel a lot for work too and I am probably also coming out ahead given the per diem rates and hotel bonuses, and given the fact that my job pays for me to rent a car so I'm not even losing anything on mileage/depreciation/etc.
Crayshack@reddit
I'm driving my own car (they pay for Uber in the rare cases I need to fly for a conference), but I have a low-maintenance vehicle so I'm coming out ahead. I'd be doing better if I had something with better gas mileage, but I'm letting my warranty run its course before I look into if it's worth doing a trade-in.
pirawalla22@reddit
I live about a mile from my office, and I walk to work. Sometimes I bike. Costs nothing other than the purchase price of the bike, some time ago.
I only go in to the office three times a week. Sometimes I bring lunch, but often I go to one of a few places in the neighborhood and buy something. I rarely spend more than $12, and I don't go out for coffee or anything like that.
Other than bringing lunch every single day, I doubt I can cut down my costs any further.
link2edition@reddit
By my math I spend about $14 per week getting to and from work.
BB-56_Washington@reddit
Anywhere from 0 and 60 a week on parking, and about 20 in gas. I drive my own car and live 5 miles from work, and usually bring my own lunch.
rawbface@reddit
I've thought about this and it would take a fat paycheck and significant perks to make me pay to park at work. Hope it's worth it for you.
BB-56_Washington@reddit
Paying to park is just the most convenient way to get to work. Depending on where I'm working, I can fine somewhere to park for free. I'm hoping to buy a house close enough to work so I can just bike in or something.
rawbface@reddit
I guess I typically expect employers to provide parking for employees, and in situations where that is not possible to at least reimburse you for it if they require you to be on site.
I did spend a couple years working outside of Philly and paying around $100/month in bridge tolls. It was not worth it though, and I left as soon as I had a worthwhile alternative.
BB-56_Washington@reddit
Nope. You can get parking passes for various lots and garages, but there's a long waiting list for them. It sucks, but it is what it is. I'm lucky right now because there's a place I'm able to park for free 1 block from the gate.
graytotoro@reddit
About $22 a week. I make a big pot of pesto spaghetti with salad and mozzarella cheese for $3/day and my car is pretty economical.
sonicenvy@reddit
Zero dollars — I bike to work. My income is very low, so I definitely would not be able to afford to own a car and drive. Aside from that I think that cycling to work is better because I get exercise that I wouldn't otherwise get because I'm not the going to the gym type, and because it's better for the environment.
Jakebob70@reddit
Roughly $50/week in gas at my current job (roughly 30 miles each way). I'm changing jobs in 2 weeks, it'll go up to about $90/week as the new job is further away (about 50 miles each way).
I bring my lunch to work and usually eat at my desk while working (or looking around Reddit).
yabbobay@reddit
I have an electric car, so besides payment and insurance, it's probably $15 in electricity a week?
I bring lunch. I buy 2 salad bags from Costco (which is 4 bags) ~$15
Macquarrie1999@reddit
I bike, so zero
jtet93@reddit
Well, presumably you paid something for the bike. Walking would be $0
El_Polio_Loco@reddit
What about the cost of shoes then?
jtet93@reddit
You need shoes anyway, it’s redundant.
-Houston@reddit
When I worked in an office it cost $1.25 each way on the bus to get to the office from home. Now I work from home so nothing. Bike maintenance too.
Bisexual_Republican@reddit
15 dollars a day that’s only because I can walk to work and I usually pick up a 3 dollar coffee along the way.
iamasecretthrowaway@reddit
$100/week. I take Uber to and from work once a week, the rest of the week I work from home. When you factor in a car payment, insurance, gas, parking, etc, it's much cheaper for me to just Uber bc I need to be in person relatively infrequently. If public transportation were an option, I would consider that too.
Usually I spend about $15-20/week on meals, bc I go out to lunch with coworkers when we are all in person together. If I were at work every day, I would definitely bring my lunch, but since it's only once it feels like a nice treat (I don't eat out often otherwise) and I enjoy spending time casually with my department - it's small and casual, so we enjoy in person days to break up the week. We do happy hours occassionally too - maybe two or three times per year.
MUHerdAlum703@reddit
Between $25-40 for gas
effulgentelephant@reddit
I live in the town I teach in, which is only like 5 square miles. I have to go between buildings and carry my items with me so I do drive but it’s like, idk, 4 miles a day round trip? Maybe $1/week? If I’m only driving my car for work I only have to fill up every few weeks. And I get reimbursed for some of it.
TheJokersChild@reddit
I think it amounts to about $30 a week after the subsidy. Full trip is a bus to a train to a train, so separate fares for each. Work gives me $50 a month towards the cost, and the cost of the bus comes off the transfer to the train. For food, whatever frozen thing I get on sale at the store for $2 or $3.
Mustang46L@reddit
I drive to work once a month, 35 miles round trip. I have free parking. I eat leftovers for lunch and then go for a walk.
Overall the cost of going into the office isn't bad but it's just the inconvenience of going to the office for no benefit that annoys me. Plus the hour drive home is dumb.
rawbface@reddit
New job last week, fully remote so zero.
My last job had me in the office twice a week, it was an 18 mile drive that took about 25 minutes. I guess around $3 in gas? I'd usually go out for lunch and spend maybe $10-15 on those in-office days.
I don't have a need to cut costs but working from home means I'm not buying morning coffee or going out to lunch nearly as much.
El_Polio_Loco@reddit
Just recently I was working at a job on the other side of the state, 171 miles (275 km) each way. It took me 2.5 hours and cost between $30-35 each day (I get about 35 mpg in my car).
This was 3 days a week, so fuel costs were around $100/week, plus general wear and tear would likely work out to another $50/week.
This was untenable for me, so I've moved to a position closer, now I commute about 20 miles each way 5 days a week and fill up my tank once a week, to the tune of about $30.
Schmancer@reddit
While I am technically remote and “work from home” i also drive ~50k miles a year to jobsites and production facilities. But those are company miles that come back on my paycheck…
I would say my commuting budget is slightly less than $0 per month
AilanthusHydra@reddit
I spend about $30 a week on gas, but while the majority of my driving is my commute (I drive about 30 minutes each way) it covers my other driving too.
I generally sit in my car and read a book on lunch, or sometimes go for a walk. Usually bring leftovers from the previous day's dinner or pack a sandwich or something.
cbrooks97@reddit
Back when I drove into work regularly, I spent anywhere from $60-100/week on gas and $40/month on parking. Most days I'd pack a lunch.
The only way to cut down on costs are to not take toll roads (if that's a thing in your area) and not eat out at lunch. Which is why when gas gets more expensive people have to cut costs in other areas of their lives. In the late '00s, when gas went from $1.50/gal to $4/gal in a few months, many struggled to make up that difference in other places in their budget.
GothWitchOfBrooklyn@reddit
I used to live in NYC and commute 1.5h each way to work, so 3h total a day. My metrocard was transit check, so provided out of pretax dollars from my paycheck by my job. I think it was around 80 bucks a month. I grabbed food from anywhere near one of my office locations (I rotated between offices).
My previous job to this one I drove 45 minutes each way, so about 1.5h total a day. gas varied because it was during 2020-2022 so I saw as little as 99c a gallon and over 5$ a gallon in the same town during that time period. I also had to factor in repairs to my car which was a beater at the time. At that job I packed lunch almost every day because there was not really any place to eat nearby.
Now I WFH... about 15% of the time I travel internationally to our HQ office and I take the train about 30 mins and walk half mile when I am there, but most of the time my commute is from my bedroom to my office. It's much nicer.
MockingbirdRambler@reddit
3.80$ I drive 30 miles for my work commute, my car gets 22 mpg. Gas is 2.79
beenoc@reddit
35 miles each way 5 days a week, my car gets about 40 mpg. About $30/week on gas (I go through around 10 gallons a week commuting), and using IRS standard mileage for wear and tear, that's ($0.67/mile * 70 miles/day * 5 days/week) for about $235/week.
However I do think the IRS number includes fuel prices and is average for all cars (my car is fairly new and reliable compared to the average car in the road that is 12 years old), so let's half that and call it $120/week, plus gas makes it $150/week.
Octane2100@reddit
I actually just calculated this the other day. 50 miles round trip to work and back, V8 performance car doesn't get good gas mileage. Factor in tolls and I'm paying about $85 a week to commute to work and back.
I took this job because it was supposed to be a step into management and a pay raise over my last. I was lied to and it was neither of those things. I start my new job which is all of those things next week, and the new job is 2 miles from home. Couldn't be more excited.
The_Real_Scrotus@reddit
$0 because I work from home.
penguin_stomper@reddit
Roughly 2 gallons of gas each way. Gas has come down a bit, so $14 or so there. Add in some for wear and tear, call it $20/day. $100 per week. Insurance on both cars combined is $800 per 6 months.
Overall, call it $600 each month, more or less. I am not in a rare situation either - in rural areas, spending more on transportation than on housing is quite common. My mortgage was less than that back when I still had one.
HoyAIAG@reddit
$95 a month to park, and I drive 30 minutes each way gas is $2.95. But it’s only 3 days a week.
rocketsarego@reddit
I bike to work so maybe a few cents on brake pads that get replaced every once in a while and other maintenance.
the_mouse_backwards@reddit
These days I usually drive 60-120 miles per week to work. At $3.50 a gallon and 30 mpg that’s $7-14 dollars in gas and 2-8 hours in commute time. Im pretty lucky compared to other times in my life.
The worst I’ve ever had it was 90 miles one way 6 days a week in a truck that got 18 mpg. I was also only making $12/hour, so I was spending almost half my income on gas alone. That was the worst job of my life for sure.
ParoxysmAttack@reddit
Maybe $50/week for gas. If I divide my insurance up to 4 weeks a month (kind of unfair considering I use the vehicle for recreational purposes too but we’ll roll with it for now), that’s another 50, so $100/week.
stellalunawitchbaby@reddit
I work from home.
When I last commuted it was about 15min each way, 4.4mi, gas was about 4.50, my car gets like 27mpg. I guess that’s like $1.40 in gas per day, round trip.
ImJLu@reddit
$0. Public transportation subsidy.
captainpro93@reddit
One of the reasons I moved to the US and one of the biggest reasons we might end up staying.
COVID-19 didn't really hit Norway that hard so we didn't really have remote work for more than a few weeks. Almost all of my friends here are remote or heavy-hybrid.
I do most of my work when the markets open and mostly just have sporadic meetings for the rest of the day. So my friends and I just spend most of the workday chatting on discord in between meetings and I get to spend time with my daughter when she's home from school/take care of the newborn.
It's also a big plus being able to go back to Taiwan/Norway to visit family more or less as often as I want. When we lived in Norway, I only went back to Taiwan twice a year. Now, I can make it back for pretty much every major holiday.
CJK5Hookers@reddit
$5-$10 on gas, $18 - $75 on parking, and I bring snacks from home or don’t eat. I drive because it’s the only way to get there lol
Hello_Hangnail@reddit
45 to an hour drive so about $75? I don't even know
travelinmatt76@reddit
My commute is 40 miles round trip and I work 3 to 4 days a week so 120 to 160 miles per week. My car gets 28 mpg so 4.28 to 5.71 gallons per week. Gas in my area is currently $2.579 per gallon. So $11.04 to $14.73 on gas per week.
For lunch I just eat leftovers from dinner the night before.
0rangeMarmalade@reddit
About $700 per month, so about $175 per week.
Gas getting to work and home (1.5 hours each way), a $7 bridge toll each day, and $332 per month for the discounted employee parking rate.
tuberlord@reddit
I work from home, so my commute is $0.
Most days I eat lunch at home, which usually a piece of roasted chicken and a salad washed down with iced tea. I haven't bothered to cost each meal out, but it is low.
I go out to lunch a few times a month, and it usually ends up being $20 or so because I want something nicer than I could easily make at home.
atlasisgold@reddit
5 miles each way. $3.50 a gallon at the moment. 25 mpg car. So 50 miles a week. So… $7.
I bring leftover food, sometimes microwave stuff or when I want something good I get enchiladas or pho across the street for $15
I could bike but I don’t want to be sweaty at work. I could never eat out but I like eating out. Frankly even if I did it twice a week it’s worth $30
worrymon@reddit
When I worked I had $12 in tolls a day and $35 in gas a week.
I cut down on costs by making sure my salary was high enough. Probably could've gotten the company to pay for it but the paperwork wasn't worth it to me.
kwridlen@reddit
40 mile daily commute. I spend around $30 to $40 in gas a week.
Fossilcosine831@reddit (OP)
40 miles one way? Or round trip? And how many days a week do you work?
kwridlen@reddit
Round trip. I work 5 to 6 days a week. Rarely 7 days but it does happen from time to time.
LeahHacks@reddit
I drive 25-30 minutes each way driving to and from work on the highway and I don't take a lunch break. I probably spend around $35 / week on gas. My car doesn't get great mileage and takes premium gas. I unfortunately have to own a car to get to my work, there is no way for me to get there using any other means. There is no public transit anywhere near it, it lacks sidewalks around it and would be too far to walk, and it's too far to bike and much too unsafe. The only other option would be carpooling which would be very inconvenient. If my work did not require me to own a car I might consider not owning one in the first place. I live in a walkable part of town, and I infrequently use my car on the weekends. I could probably get by with a bus and Uber / Lyft as needed. So if I consider the cost of maintenance (oil changes, tires, checkups, etc.), repairs, car insurance, having to buy a replacement car when needed, and so on the full cost of my commute is likely quite high. Probably over $100 / week if I had to guess when you add it all together. I don't do much to cut down costs, there isn't much I can do. If I'm still working where I am now when my car dies then I'll probably get an electric car next time to cut costs. I can charge for free at my workplace so gas would be cut out of the equation and I've heard maintenance is often cheaper as well. But hopefully my current car lasts a good while longer and whenever it dies I won't have to replace it, I'd save a whole lot of money.
Swarmhulk@reddit
I spend 1 hour everyday I commute not get paid for that time.
sorakirei@reddit
Currently full time work from home, but when I did have to go to the office, it was 17 miles one way and took anywhere from 45 - 60 minutes depending on the day. I was probably burning around 1.5 gallons per round trip. Had 30 minutes for lunch, which was not enough time to go anywhere. Brought my lunch just about every in office day.
Not many people at the office lived where I did or they had rotating shifts, so car pooling was never an option to reduce costs. What really helped was a gradual shift to more work from home days. Just before March 2020, I was going to the office twice a week, so the shift to full time work from home was easy and welcomed.
I do not miss that commute, especially in the winter.
-Houston@reddit
When I worked in an office it cost $1.25 each way on the bus to get to the office from home. Now I work from home so nothing.
john510runner@reddit
6 or 7 miles.
Train
Work caters the lunch.
Costs around $9 a day to take the train to work.
Only go in once a week to work. If I wanted to save more money I’d have to go in less than once a week but they might put me on the list of people to lay off the next time they do layoffs.
Budget-Industry-7393@reddit
Anywhere from 150-350 a week. Sometimes more sometimes less. Have to b drive a hour and a half one way sometimes have to drive more. Just depends on the week.
d1duck2020@reddit
I commute 5 hours each way, usually weekly. I just charge for my time and drive a company truck-haven’t owned a car for over five years. No money spent, just lots of windshield time.
Confetticandi@reddit
I work from home now, but back when I still had to go into the office every day, I would take the train for 30 minutes each way and about $7.50 fare.
For me, selling my car and relying only on public transit saved a bunch of costs.
IM_OSCAR_dot_com@reddit
My commute is 3.3 miles each way. But tragically it’s actually too dangerous to bike the route (1 mile stretch on a very busy 2-lane road with no feasible detours).
My family has two cars, one of which is electric. If I take the gas car, I get about 23mpg and gas is roughly $3/gal in my area so call it 43c each way. If I use the EV, it gets roughly 4mi/kWh at 11.3c/kWh, so that 9.3c each way. Which one I use depends on my wife/kids plans for the day.
I also usually go home for lunch.
So worst case it’s 20 trips x 43c = 8.60/wk in gas. If gas goes to $4 then that becomes 11.46/wk.
yozaner1324@reddit
Currently I work from home, so $0. Back when I did commute, it was like 20 miles round trip driving, so about five times the price per gallon. So say $20 a week. Parking was free and I usually just munched on snacks in the break room for lunch.
I may start commuting again soon, and that will cost me about $100 a month in transit fares.
concrete_isnt_cement@reddit
None, my employer covers the cost of gas
nemo_sum@reddit
Averaged over the year? Less than $2 per workday. My commute is 4.2 miles, takes about 30 minutes (give or take 5) on my bicycle, or 50 minutes (give or take 5) by bus if the weather is poor. Bus costs $2 each way; I'm lazy and pay the pros to fix flats and oil the chain &c., roughly $400 over the past two years.
mmeeplechase@reddit
When I’m feeling motivated, my commute is about 20’ to my desk, but some days it’s just 10’ to the couch, or even 0’ when I work from bed…
ShoddyRevolutionary@reddit
I drive about 30 miles round trip a day and own an EV, so about $1.00/day in electricity. Probably an average of $5 on food for break when I don’t bring from home, and I usually do.
I cut costs mostly by not buying food every day.
SlamClick@reddit
2 miles each way so maybe like $15 a week?
YeetThatLemon@reddit
I drive a newer Honda Civic and my commute is about 20 minutes typically so assuming im just going from work to home all week and not anywhere else for fun then its $0 a week as I don’t have to fill up that soon.
Now if I am driving other places during the week then it’s about $15-20 for a little over half a tank of gas (Depends on the gas station) which is when I fill up.
TwinkieDad@reddit
I commute 3-5 days a week and it’s about one gallon of gas each way. So somewhere between $24 and $50 a week. We already lived in our house prior to me getting the job and it’s harder to uproot your family. It would be nice to take public transportation, but it’s two hours one way vs a half hour in my car.
CSI_Shorty09@reddit
$0!
I have a take home car from work! Not my gas, not my miles 🙃
dwhite21787@reddit
100 mile round trip daily, and 2024 tax code says .67 per mile, so $67 a day for using my car is what I could claim.
3 unproductive hours blown, and I make $80/hour so that’s $240 lost.
Every day I commute I lose $300
BurgerFaces@reddit
I drive 8 miles each way and pack my lunch most days.
Fappy_as_a_Clam@reddit
$10-$15 a week, tops. I'm out like 8 miles from my office and it's smooth driving, only 2 stop lights.
I usually bring lunch, which is a huge cost cutting action on its own. Probably the most impactful one you can make.
Aside from that, I just try to limit how much I spend on other consumables like drinks or snacks, but I don't spend much on that stuff anyway.
_pamelab@reddit
I drive about 280 miles in 4 days on the weeks I go to the office. I take my lunch. I spend maybe $30 on gas a week in a Prius. Cut down on cost? See Prius and lunch. Why? My cats gotta eat.
Bear_necessities96@reddit
Well I work 10 minutes away from work but I can tell you how much I spend on the car monthly:
Car payment $360
Insurance $220
Gas: ~20/wk = $80
Carwash membership $25
Total: $685/4 = 171.25/wk
DOMSdeluise@reddit
My commute is like a 7 mile round trip and I work from home two days a week. It takes me a while to run through a tank of gas and consequently I am quite price insensitive for that.
jessper17@reddit
I only physically go to my office twice a week and use maybe 1.5-2 gallons of gas so at current prices, $6 in gas and $20 for the tea and coffee I pick up on my way in.
DankBlunderwood@reddit
A LOT less now that I work for my local school district. I used to commute 40 miles roundtrip to make $16/hr. I noped out of that situation, although I have to admit the unlimited overtime wasn't bad.
lacaras21@reddit
I bike to work, but this actually got me wondering, so I did a bit of math/research.
I live very close to work, so I don't actually spend a lot of time biking to and from work, an online calculator says I burn about 348 calories a week riding my bike to and from work, so we'll go with that number.
The sliced bread I buy contains 80 calories per slice and costs $2.98 for the loaf. There are 21 slices of bread in the loaf, so that's roughly 14 cents per slice. At 80 calories per slice, I need to eat 5 slices of bread (rounded up) to make up the calories I lose cycling.
So my commute costs me approximately 70 cents per week
Red_Beard_Rising@reddit
My four mile commute is less than a dollar in gasoline. My monthly car payment is $15/day. Insurance comes to about $2.75/day.
yugohotty@reddit
Currently commute is 4 miles each way, takes me 10 minutes to get to work and 10 minutes to come home no matter the day. Fortunately I moved to a state where traffic is not really an issue like it was when I lived in NJ.
When I lived in NJ my commute was 8 miles each way and it would take me anywhere from 20-40 minutes each way.
Gladyskravitz99@reddit
My husband spends about 100 a month on gas. I'd say 70 of that is for going back and forth to work. So less than $20 per week. He has a parking pass, and that works out to about $7 a week. He usually brings his lunch.
JimBones31@reddit
I spend about $330 a month on flights.
Relevant-Ad4156@reddit
I live less than 5 minutes from work. A drive of 1.1 miles, according to Google.
So a couple of bucks in gas per week. It's currently $3.30/gallon here, and that total driving would use half a gallon or less.
And I do drive it. It could be walked (and I do walk every once in a while), but I mostly drive.
I bring my lunch (usually just some random microwave meal or leftovers and a drink)
Cheezewiz239@reddit
About $40 in gas or half that if I decide to not go home on my lunch
T0astyMcgee@reddit
Oh not much. I work hybrid usually two days in the office and three at home. It’s about a ten mile ride so less than 10 dollars probably.
billydoubleu@reddit
6 miles to work, I come home for lunch (60 minutes) and eat a lean cuisine, gas today was $3.69 a gallon, my truck F250 gets around 11 miles to the gallon so 24 miles a day would cost me roughly 8 bucks a day
anneofgraygardens@reddit
I work from home four days a week so it's a pretty cheap and short commute.
When I go to the office my commute is like 20 minutes. I'm not really sure how much I spend on it, but not much. I fill my gas tank like once every six-eight weeks? for lunch I either bring leftovers or i go out to eat. If I go out I'll usually go somewhere near an errand I have to run anyway, like I'll get lunch and then go to the grocery store. My local Trader Joe's is close to my office (but not my house) so that's a common errand.
my life is not interesting, lol.
HoldMyWong@reddit
About $200 a week in gas
Pinikanut@reddit
$0 because I work from home.
When I have to go in for an event I either take my ebike or I used public transportation. My employer gives me a card to use public transport for free, so still $0.
ALoungerAtTheClubs@reddit
Maybe like $10 a week averaged out since I only drive into the office occasionally.
xmetalheadx666x@reddit
$20-26 per week between subway, bus, and ferry depending on if I'm going to my office or a site.
Odd-Help-4293@reddit
I spend about $20/week on gas, and bring a lunch from home 90% of the time.
ProfessionalSeaCacti@reddit
I'm a camp worker (on site campground worker). A pound of coffee is 18.99, makes about 12 pots. I drink/make a half pot a day, takes a half cup for me to walk the 100 yards to work, and half a pot is 3 cups. I've had a few beers but there's the raw numbers for you.
I work at a campground, driving a golf cart or lawnmower all day. No one checks up on me, no supervisor breathing down my neck, no quota to fill. I just leisurely go about my day, living off the wages of Americans put having a good time in the outdoors. I don't make a great wage, 10/hr, but rent/electric/water/waste are all covered.
Jerseyjay1003@reddit
Currently $0 because I work from home.
Successful_Fish4662@reddit
I’m a SAHM but my husband works 5 Miles away. So he probably spends maybe 25 dollars every 2 weeks?
Zealousideal_Ad_8736@reddit
I live 45 seconds from work - our office sits on the edge of a residential street - so I literally walk out my door and go around the corner and I’m at work.
OhThrowed@reddit
about 5 bucks worth of gas, we've got a decent cafeteria at work that is subsidized by the company and honestly, I don't bother to cut down the costs as they are minimal anyways.
ToumaKazusa1@reddit
About $20 on gas, depending on what gas prices happen to be. Plus wear and tear on the car, but I've got an old Honda so it should be holding up pretty well.
For lunch I make my own and bring it in because that's cheaper
Aprils-Fool@reddit
I work 1.5 miles from home. I either bike or use a tiny amount of gas. I pack my lunch and don’t leave work on breaks.
Wartz@reddit
$0.25 per week.
TheRealDudeMitch@reddit
Depends on gas prices. I drive 30 miles to work and another 30 back 5 days a week. Mostly rural highway miles.
Maybe 60-80 bucks a week on average
TravelerMSY@reddit
It can be a lot, considering the invisible sunk costs of owning a car. Call it .55/mile overall. Call it $50/week for me,
LivingGhost371@reddit
Currently I work out of my house
Previously I drove about 30 minutes to work. I specifically looked for a place to work in a nearby suburban office park with free parking so I wouldn't have to deal with going downtown to work. There was an employee cafeteria and plenty of fast-food places around.
Low-Cat4360@reddit
I drive about 6 minutes to work and six minutes back. For lunch I'll just eat at work if I'm there all day. Be it leftovers or something I make there, as I work in a restaurant. I'll occasionally drive back home if the break is longer. It probably only costs a few bucks to commute
virtual_human@reddit
I'm still hybrid so I only drive 108 miles a week, maybe $15 in gas. Two lunches from home, maybe $10 a week. Not really any easy to reduce that cost.
whirly_boi@reddit
Work from home and spend about 400/month total for groceries. Used to walk to work at one point and would bring food home from the kitchen I worked in. So at that time I was spending like 200/month on groceries if that.
reyadeyat@reddit
I walk to work, so I spend $0 on average.
Taanistat@reddit
38 miles round trip, about $35.00 in fuel every two weeks if all I do is commute and run errands on my way. I drive a Camry Hybrid.
SilentSchitter@reddit
Used to live about 10miles from work. Would spend about $40-$50 in gas every two weeks. Have a POV. I always bring my lunch.
Now, in a few weeks, I’ll be able to walk to work. I’ll still bring my lunch though.
Otherwise-OhWell@reddit
Per week: $40 in gas. $35 dollars in tolls. Per day: 35 mile trip, one-way, in a RAV4 Hybrid.
I only have to go into the office twice a week but I usually go 3x and I like it when I do. I go in on the days when most of the other folks are WFH, I appreciate the work/life separation, and a change of scenery is nice. Oh, it's also a nice excuse to go out for lunch.
msspider66@reddit
I count my commute it steps since I work from home.
Many years ago my commute cost close to $400 a month between train fare, subway fare, and parking
Redbubble89@reddit
$25-$30 in gas. I don't want to know my lunch bill. I make decent money.
NorwegianSteam@reddit
Whatever my commute is 3 miles round-trip, and I work 3 days a week in a normal week. So 9 miles worth of gas. Make my lunches, so whatever that breaks down to. Anywhere from like a dollar when it's just a pb&j, to like $3 or $4 when it's something I cooked. I used to commute 70 miles for the same job, that was a couple hundred a week in gas alone.