Doing some research.
How much does it cost you to go to work daily and how long does it take you?
Your input will be appreciated.
Thanks
MOD: For commute time, please refer to previous poll. Let's focus on the cost in this forum discussion thread.
How Much Does It Cost You to Go to Work Daily and How Long Does It Take You?
grabngo on 08/12/2017 - 11:48
Last edited 08/12/2017 - 12:26 by 2 other users
Last edited 08/12/2017 - 12:26 by 2 other users
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A good hack in Melbourne is to start work early. Train travel is free if you touch off Myki before 7am in the city, so you just pay for the trip home.
I work 4 days per week in the office and use Myki money instead of pass. Back of envelope saving over the year from waking up early (not to mention the benefits of getting home early): 48 weeks x 4 days x $4.10 fare = $787
I love the free travel before 7, but it's shit when you need to catch a bus to get the the train!
$7.80 per day in Brisbane for a 20-25 minute train ride.
$2 parking at train station per weekday.
$9 per day train costs.1 hour a day back and forth
$12 a day - ridiculous transport costs.
Melbourne - 50 min commute door to door train + tram. I paid $1521 for a 1 year Myki pass and use public transport 5 to 6 days a week.
Just out of curiosity, when the train network was down that afternoon earlier this year, did you touch on into the network? If so, did you get the reimbursement to your myki?
Myki dont reimburse you shit….even when they fail performance figures you have to fill in a form post it to be processed manually…. I've had one refund in ten years and that was automated trains were stuffed in the morning and evening peaks… and one a free monthly pass once when the eftpos went down midtransaction.
Yeah and they always lie about train performance to not have to pay you back. But I'm talking about that particular event when the lines were down for about 5 hours. I was on a monthly pass and touched on during the time and got the 2 hour fare automatically reimbursed, so wanted to see if those on the annual pass got the same, which I assume they would have had they also touched on.
yeah that's likely the event and one and only time i've been reimbursed automatically I got shafted morning and night that day … was that the time the bat flew in to the power station at newport and blew up some circuits or some other signal fault they never truthfully tell you what was the real cause.
I missed out on all that fuss because I was hanging out in the city that afternoon/ evening and it was back online by the time I went home. So I am unable to tell you about reimbursement.
Well at least you didn't get stuck with the delays. I managed to skip the delays as I just stayed at work later, but I still touched on in the reimbursement period, so did get the money back.
The train I caught was about 45 mins late but it left about 3 mins after I got to the station and was quite empty so I had a good journey home!
$42 a week on opal card, 13 minutes each way
$0 and 10 minutes door to door. Contemplating moving back to suburbs but I'm spoiled with the convenience. :)
daily $20 petrol citylink $16? 3hrs if fwy traffic has a good run.
8.60 per day from monday to Thursday and then slightly cheaper for Friday. It takes me around 45 mins one way. Opal is crazy expensive and my carriage always packed!!!
bus on average 2 days a week.. so 4x~$2. so $8.
Just over $1 a day in petrol. Motorbike tank lasts about 3 weeks, and it costs $20 to fill
Cup of tea and there in 3 minutes.
Driving and riding my bike both take around 25minutes. When the weather is good I ride my bike which is free and driving costs 5km in petrol +$6 in parking if I can't find a free park. I used to live in the CBD next to my workplace so it was free to walk around 10 minutes, sometimes I miss living in the CBD for the convenience and it probably saved my partner and I a lot in transport costs.
Going to school, but $41.50 per 28 days for a student 28 day pass on Adelaide Metro. Takes about 10 minutes to walk to the bus stop, and then about 15-20 minutes actually on the bus.
7-8 bucks a week for my scooter
Work is only 7 mins away
$2.70 but half an hour to travel less than 6kms…welcome to public transport in regional qld…
To and from inclusive
Petrol - $4-5
Time - Usually about 1hr30
Parking - $7
$5.80 / day in Canberra using the bus.
Time - approx 25 mins door to door
If I go in off-peak it is $2.30 each way rather than $2.90.
Free, company car (thankfully as i go through at least 2 tolls each way)
Most days around 1.5hrs each way (can be over 2hrs on bad days)
Some days about 30 seconds walk to home officeAdvice…My employer asked me to work at another site an hour away because they were short on staff for the next 2 months. I’ll be travelling the longest compared to the others at the base (who are all paid more than me anyway)
Would it be wrong to ask them to compensate me for the fuel?
It wouldn't be unreasonable to expect compensation, however it depends on how comfortable asking your boss for that and what kind of relationship you have with your superiors.
Not only the fuel but the wear and tear as well. I would expect at least ATO approved reimbursement rates of 66 cents per km.
25min drive 8km = about $1 fuel
parking up until recently was free but now $40 a day
$41 a day not taking into account incidentals like registration maintenance and insurance$40 a day??! Surely you could drive to a train station or something.. That's ridiculous
$40 is well priced for Sydney cbd and convenient.
I tried other options. my train station is bondi junction which is almost halfway to work for me - cheapest is $15 per day early bird parking which requires hunting for 10mins which is usually already full by 7am; if i do not find a park I have to resort to parking in the westfield which is $50 a day, plus train ticket return $6 total about $21 -$56 + wasted time and subject to many variables.Damn.. That ends up being like $9k a year.. That's unfathomable for me.. I suppose you must be an investment banker or something :p
@brezzo: I'm hoping this will not be long term and I wish i was an investment banker, not even close. $9k would be a weekly bonus to the likes of one.
Live and work in the city - $0 (either walk or free tram 1 stop) and about 3-4 minutes.
Interesting question. Well, let's work this out.
Car repayments monthly: $561/month
Insurance: $550/year = $45.8/month
Refuel cost (avg $/L): $1.60
Average L/100km: 8.5
Work distance/day: 38km
Average days/month worked: 2138 km/d * 21 d/month = 798 ~= 800 km/month
800 km/month * 8.5 L/100 km = 68 L/month
$1.60 $/L * 68 L/month = 108.8 $/month on fuelTotal: $108.8 + $45.8 + $561 = $715.6/month
715.6/21 = $23.9/day
Hmmmmmmmm…. this is a lot of money on a car…. damn. A bit disappointed in myself that I'm spending so much on my car.
Ignore the text at the bottom and focus on the cartoon: https://pics.me.me/i-hate-driving-but-i-need-a-car-to-get-10…
About $1.50 worth of diesel to and from work. 11 mins each way. Used to work in mosman which is almost 3 hours worth of driving to and from work and $10 a day. Earn a lot less. $6.50 less per hour effectively making $6.50 x 38 hours = 247 less a week before tax. But after deducting fuel and wear and tear on my car and the time consume in travel, I felt a lot richer now
$4.30 one way ~1 hour door to door.
Biking: free (well, close to zero marginal cost per trip, I did have to buy a bike and it does occasionally require some maintenance).
Living in Melbourne. Working in Albert Park.
$20 a day for petrol and citylink. Got my own car park at work so that's free.
Takes me 30 minutes in the morning. Takes me about 35-45 min on the way home.
How can you possibly use the citylink between Melbourne and Albert Park? Also you could walk between Melbourne and Albert Park in 45 mins, no problems.
Melbourne city is a broad term. I live in the northern suburbs.
No, Melbourne is the city in this context, otherwise why would you name Albert Park. By distance Albert Park is much more Melbourne than any Northern Suburb.
Roughly $30 depending on the price of fuel.
1hr 45mins door to door (135km drive).
Epic drive, I felt silly for driving about 70km each way..
Though sounds like you travel on average a lot faster than me (about 1.5 to 2hrs usually depending on day)Yeah, majority of the drive is on the highway and then a rural road, so not much traffic to deal with fortunately!
$5.3 / day for fuel good for 3 weeks in full tank.
$15.8 / day for car repayments.
Free Parking$5/day and 30 min - this covers both ways… free parking
15-20minutes. Probably about $25 a week on petrol.
Free*. I ride a bike. 19 +- 1 min depending on traffic lights. Free secure parking and showers too.
Having said that Cycling Australia’a race membership with insurance is racking up $361/year.
*Although my bike cost a few thousand bucks each… I do also use them for other things like training, racing an weekend rides. Annual cost on bike e.g. maintenance and upgrades is about $200-300 per bike. I do most of the maintenance and fixing myself.
I rarely drive - probably 2-3 times so far this year to work.
I live regional. 3 hours there and back. ~$24 of fuel a day
4-8 minutes on my electric skateboard, varies based on how lucky I am with lights.
Driving in to office approx ~$1.5-2 in fuel per return trip.
Driving to client sites vary depending on location, but get reimbursed for KMs travelled ($0.86/KM) + other costs (tolls, parking, Myki etc).approx $20 on student concession per week and 30mins to get to work (22m train, rest walking)
I wonder how I’ll survive after graduation.
Trip to work is free. 30 mins on the train.
Trip home is $4.10.
Free, 10 minutes a day.
Walk in everyday - about 20 minutes into city.
Cost is my soul having to work every day.
Free, my apprentice picks me up
$15 per day in fuel
About $32 Opal per week. 50 mins door-to-door (walk-train-walk).
Assuming a full week of work… $28.80 per week and ~25-40min travel each way depending on how long I have to wait for a train.
20 minutes total travel time (10 minutes one way to ride 2.5 km between home and office). Cost: 50 cents - based on $200 annual maintenance cost of my bike (road bike, not motorbike)
takes me about 30mins to get to work, which is $50-60 per week in Petrol, from goldy to yatala
So OP, why didn't you list your costs and time!?
$9.2 a day so $46 a week. about an hour each way with traffic. This is on a bus with an opal card. realistically work should only be a 25 min drive, but traffic easily makes it an hour.
Work at home on most days.
But on the days that I don't, it's bicycle, 15 mins each way. It's not actually free, there's the occasional cost of new brakes, cables, lubricant, tubes, tyres, chain, cassette, spokes. Maybe $100-200 a year.
Used to jog to work, it's not free either. Need new shoes every few months or something will start to hurt on the foot or knee. $100-150 for a pair of shoes.
$0 live in the free tram zone, 15 minutes door to door
+$52 per day less $6 in petrol and however much 80km of depreciation is worth…Work pays $0.65 per km driven and covers parking and tolls which helps with the 40km commute…
Take bus to work usually takes ~15 minutes and costs $2.10 (because I'm lazy)
Walking home from work which takes 25 minutes. Live and work in Sydney city
I like your username. Curious to know, is that an Arrested Development reference?
Didn't realise that haha
Anyeong just means Hi in Korean
Anyeong! 😁
Takes me 5mins to drive from Ryde to North Ryde at 7:15am each morning…. so whatever that fuel is worth… maybe $1 a day ? :)
I've bought a scooter back in 2005 when they were all the rage, and I still use the same one to date. It's got over 52K on it, and is about to crap itself. So I've been looking at upgrading soon, as old faithful is not going to last too much longer. The full price + ORC was about $3600, and I believe I've made that capital cost back over time. This scooter has been so sturdy, that I'm actually quite keen to go yamaha again.
It now costs about $7.00pw in fuel to get to/from work pw
If I'm lazy, parking costs about 3.5 x 5 = 17.50 pw. But I usually snag free parking about 3/5 days of the week.
Rego/ctp on the scooter is under $500 per year
3rd party property damage (don't want to hit a tesla) $110.90 p.a617.40 + 350(est cost of parking at 2days out of 5 per week) = 967.40
approx 50 weeks of work a year = $19.348 pw
Add in the cost of servicing, which is about $250 / 50wks = 5.00 pw. So just under $24.00 pw.I should also add that the scooter gets used quite often on a saturday for shopping. So it works out as an average of $4.00 per day as a commute to work vehicle.
40-50 minutes to work depending on what time I leave.
~$7.00 in tolls and $40/week on fuel$75 a week.
4 days a week this year has costed approx $1400 (I am a teacher so not counting when I am off). Next year is an extra day so will be around $1600, as being opal it will cost half after 8 trips.
Commuting by bicycle. $20/week - becuase upgrades.
Me
Petrol $5.50
Rego $2.20
Insurance $2.20
Servicing $1.65$10.55 per day
Wife
Petrol $8.32
Rego $2.20
Insurance $2.20
Servicing $1.65
Tolls $5
Parking $14$33.37 per day
Yeh cars are expensive.
$5.60 per day and 14 minutes door to door
$0 - 20 minutes each way. Company car and company pays for petrol for private use all week round
In Sydney, I drive about 45 minutes daily and then park for free about 20 minutes walk away from the office and use an electric scooter to the office which takes about 5 minutes.
Used to cost me about $40 in petrol a week and $100 in parking across the road, now with the electric scooter I'm paying only $40 in petrol and probably about $2 in electricity to charge it a week.
Brisbane, free, 2 mins.
$0 about a 15 minute walk. Although if we're talking about cost maybe a few cents? Because my shoes and clothes get worn a little during the walk plus there is the cost of food required to power me for the walk.
Also add in a % of Spotify/Apple music
If i take m7/m2 motorway about $36 a day plus petrol… so about $45..plus parking Lunch etc… so yeah i work for free….
Timewise averaging 2.5 hour both ways
Approx $75 a week in petrol
45 min drive each way
Although if I leave at 5am for work it only takes me 33 mins~ $10 per day (train) and 35 minutes to work (Sydney)
3.8 km each way (7-9 minutes, depending on whether the traffic light gods are favourable), x 2 to make it return, x 5 for each day = 38 km a week
Free undercover parking at work.
Urban fuel consumption estimated at 18l / 100 km is 6.84 litres per week
6.84 litres * $1.42 cpl for premium unleaded = $9.85 per week
18 litres / 100km and using premium as well…. What have you got? A tractor? That puts my previous small car at a bit more than 5 litres / 100km (driven carefully) using standard unleaded to shame.
3.8k, 9 minutes, thats an average of 25kph. So most likely heaps of stop start, so its probably 18/100
Yeah pretty much - a 97 Pajero V6 petrol auto with a few accessories that don't help fuel consumption :) Never really measured urban fuel consumption but highway is 13.5l/100km at best, so 18l/100km seems a good guestimate for around town.
$50 a week, 25mins each way. However its 100kph zone, no traffic lights. Real cruisy drive which I use to learn Japanese.
Learning Japanese? Interesting!! But how??
Pimsleur audio books, they are prey good for conversation. 24 minutes a lesson, is perfect
10-15min drive with free parking and about $2 of petrol I guess.
About 50kms to and fro, 25-30mins each way
Working 5 Days a week
~$30/Week for Petrol+ Car maintenance + Wear and tear + Insurance + Rego + Roadside assist……..
$8.20 per day using Myki in Melb.
takes roughly 1 hour each way. 4 min walk + 45-50 min tram + 6 min walk.
$34.44 per week.
Public transport.