Unpaid, not free

A 40-minute commute is 167 hours a year.

Five days, fifty weeks. That is 4.17 forty-hour weeks in a seat. At a $30 kept hour it is $5,000 of life, and it never appears on the offer. Remote is not a personality. It is this number going to zero.

Round trip	Hours / year	At $30 kept	At $50 kept
20 minutes	83	$2,500	$4,167
40 minutes	167	$5,000	$8,333
60 minutes	250	$7,500	$12,500
90 minutes	375	$11,250	$18,750

Annual salary Real hours per week, including the ones that “don’t count” Weeks you actually work Combined tax load, percent Round-trip commute, minutes Commute days per week Meeting hours per week

—Kept hour, after tax

—Kept hour after commute is counted as work

—Gross hourly, before tax

—Evening hours already sold (over 40 / week)

—Commute, valued at your kept hour

—Meetings, valued at your kept hour, per year

—Take-home, same tax load

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20 minutes × 5 × 50 / 60 = 83.3 hours. 40 minutes is double, 166.7, which this page rounds to 167. 60 minutes is 250. 90 is 375. Dollars are those hours times the kept hour. If your hour is not $30, the calculator on this page already replaced it.

A raise that does not clear the commute can still be a cut. Price it before you celebrate the title. Five extra hours is the other quiet cut. Two offers is the reply.