What percentage of your salary is for commuting?

[GodAtum]

I was curious as to what percentage of your salary you would or do spend on commuting? I would never spend over 1/4 I think.

 

[Johnnie2Sheds]

Now I live in the North it is 1.44%. Living in the South it was 16%.

 

[talltim]

About 5.25% . Annoyingly if I lived the same distance north of my work as I do south it would be 0%

 

[telstarbox]

7% of net pay (I thought it would be higher for some reason), although I nearly always use my season ticket for non-work travel at the weekend as well.

When I lived in the North it was 0% as I could walk to work!

 

[starrymarkb]

0%

It's about a 15 min walk

 

[Tetchytyke]

13% of gross pay, 18% of net pay. Thankfully I do get an interest-free loan for an annual season ticket, if I was paying monthly it would be 22% of net pay.

For a 23-mile train journey, that is nothing short of a rip-off. London Midland are making record profits though, so that's ok.

 

[Yew]

0%, as I walk.. Although I suppose I could include a new pair of shoes and a waterproof jacket every now and again

 

[richw]

About 6% for me for an 8 mile each way commute!

 

[Simon11]

For me, its a 17 miles to work (walking) in London, which takes up 5.6% of salary or 4.5% with bonus as well.

 

[eastwestdivide]

Interesting question - ties in with housing affordability (live further away with a cheaper mortgage and dearer ticket?), how you value your free time, time with family, and all sorts of related questions.
Such as, what's your ratio of commuting time to working time?
For me, anything more than an hour's commute each way per normal working day would be too much. At the moment, it's under minute each way, as I work from home.

 

[sutty]

I'm probably in a minority, but I consider my commuting costs to be quite reasonable. I get an all zones on peak West Midlands card for £101 per month. I use it on weekends, as well. The daily price, including £1 friends and family tickets for my wife on the weekend would probably be £3.00 per day, possibly less. Not bad for a commute from Wolverhampton to Tyseley, a bus, then two trains, and them back the other way.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Another 0% here - a 5 to 10 minute walk to the office.

I'd shudder to think what percentage some of us spend on our hobby though!

 

[richw]

I'd shudder to think what percentage some of us spend on our hobby though!

Nil now I have all my photography equipment. Walk down to my bridges for photos now.

 

[maniacmartin]

Under 2.5% of take-home pay

 

[jp4712]

[smug mode] I live in Staffordshire but my office is in Amsterdam: I fly out Monday and return Thursday unless I'm visiting another part of Europe. The average fare with KLM is £300-400 a week, plus £50 a week airport parking.... But my firm pays the lot, so the proportion of income is zero! [/smug]

 

[shedman]

[smug mode] I live in Staffordshire but my office is in Amsterdam: I fly out Monday and return Thursday unless I'm visiting another part of Europe. The average fare with KLM is £300-400 a week, plus £50 a week airport parking.... But my firm pays the lot, so the proportion of income is zero! [/smug]

Reading this I began to sing Roxanne by the Police!

 

[GatwickDepress]

None, because I don't have a job.

 

[90019]

My commute costs me roughly 1% of what I earn.

I'd shudder to think what percentage some of us spend on our hobby though!

If we include other hobbies, my two main ones have been rather expensive over the past few months. My cars are the worst though, having spent thousands so far this year.


Hooray for expensive hobbies and interests.

 

[GodAtum]

For commuting, I pay about 10% of my annual salary on tickets.

 

[Crossover]

Sadly my commute is not by rail but by car - I think fuel alone is getting on for over 10% of pre tax salary, before any other costs. I think I need to negotiate a bit

 

[Mike395]

Sadly, around a third of post-tax income currently...

 

[theblackwatch]

Like Crossover, my commute is by car. Fuel costs are around 3% of my income. However, given that around 50% of my car use is on commuting, perhaps I should add 50% of the cost of my car, road fund licence, insurance, etc to that figure....

 

[Clip]

Nothing for me - a perk of a spouses Oyster

 

[talltim]

About 12 years ago my wife and I were looking to buy a house in Sheffield. Some annoying woman messed us around for so long that house prices had risen beyond what we could afford so we ended up buying in Chesterfield. I then got a job in Sheffield with a free SY Travelmaster which I rarely use. If we had bought in Sheffield we could have afforded paying a fair bit more in our mortgage!

 

[AM9]

Nothing for me, - I'm retired. Oh, I do try to use the bus pass when I go shopping, - that's free of course.

 

[John Webb]

In the 1970s I was commuting from SE London across to just NW of London on the Midland Main Line. I used an annual season ticket - can't say how much it was now and what % of salary - but between January 1975 and January 1977 it almost doubled in price. I spoke with colleagues at work about places to live, sorted out my finances and was able to take out a mortgage for slightly less each year than what I'd originally paid BR in Jan 1977. Result - 15 mins quiet drive to work instead of anything between 1.5-2hours commuting each way!

 

[Tibbs]

Interesting question - ties in with housing affordability (live further away with a cheaper mortgage and dearer ticket?), how you value your free time, time with family, and all sorts of related questions.
Such as, what's your ratio of commuting time to working time?
For me, anything more than an hour's commute each way per normal working day would be too much. At the moment, it's under minute each way, as I work from home.

I specifically moved for this reason - I pay slightly more in rent (for a much smaller place) but I save £3k for my season and I get about an extra 2 hours every working day.

So my %age was about 7%, after October when my season expires it'll be 0% as I'll be walking!

 

[318259]

About 4.1% of my take-home pay goes on transport. That's an 8-mile train journey to Glasgow city centre.

Smoking takes up 11% of my take-home pay. I really should quit!

 

[ASharpe]

Daily commute is just a fraction of a percent for cycle parts.

Travel back up north every weekend takes about 14%.

I thought it a lot at first, but compared to others on this thread I do alright for 500 miles of travel a week.

 

[crispy1978]

0% as it is a 7 minute walk from home.