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At what price is your job not worth the trip?

How high does a gallon of regular have to get before you quit?

  • $4.50

  • $5.00

  • $6.00

  • $7.00

  • $8.00

  • $9.00

  • $10.00

  • $20.00

  • $30.00

  • I work from home

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Savij

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Once you factor in long commutes and child care costs, having a job can be pretty expensive. So how high does the price of a gallon of gas have to get for either you or your significant other to quit their current job?
 
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I have a short commute...

at $4.50-5.00 I'd start giving serious consideration to waking up earlier and either walking or biking.

Meanwhile over in europe they're paying something like 2.50-3 per litre.
 
My car gets 35mpg city and costs me $40 a week to fill @ $4/gall. So I would say if it got up to the $60 range, I would prolly ask if I could work from home a few days a week.
 
6-8$ per gallon before I consider driving to the closest train station and take the commuter rail to work assuming that the commuter rail fare increases with the price of gasoline as well (albeit at a slow rate). I would not quit my job at any gasoline cost, I would seek accomodations (telework) which I would obtain since I already qualify for such programs at my work.
 
I feel like there are too many variables in the OP.

If it's just based on gas, then it would have to be really expensive to quit my job to save money.

Regarding day care and gas, if I have a second kid in day care, it costs me $24k a year so it's a little different.
 
Well, at $4/gal I'd be spending $2.81 per day on gas for my commute. And I bring home roughly $158/day from my job (before taxes, not including benefits).

Even at $30/gal, I'd still only be spending about $21 per day on gas, so it would still be worth it. Although if gas became that expensive I expect they'd be more willing to let people work from home, even people who live reasonably close like I do.
 
Don't let the oil companies know, but the price of gas would have to be $10/gallon before it would start to have even a slightly noticeable impact on my life, and even then I'd just use it as an excuse to not visit my in-laws so often. A few years ago when it crept up to $4/gallon it hit me a lot harder, but at the time I was in school and didn't make much money.

I do have a light rail station just a block away from my house, but unfortunately the nearest stop is a couple miles away from my work. Also, it currently costs me less in gas to get to work than it would take to ride the train. I would have to sell my car and cut the cost of insurance and everything else to make it worth it to take the train unless I could sucker my employer into supplementing the cost.
 
I'm about a 20 minute walk to my office, and generally take public transit everywhere.
 
I have about a 15 minute walk to the office, so gas can go as high as it wants.

KT
 
we couldn't pay for our stuff if i don't work

i already work from home half time, it has saved me a lot of $$$
so i'd say up to $6 before i'd tell the boss i need to work from home more than half time

p.s. i commute 100 miles round trip, so last year that was 500 miles a week, now at half time working from home, 500 miles every two weeks. at the same time, last year i was using 2 cars, one 13 mpg the other 23 mpg, now i have a honda civic 33 mpg , so i am saving a lot on gas despite the rise in prices
 
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$6/gallon, maybe? I drive 300 miles/wk for work and that's with telecommuting 40%. Realistically I'd ask for more telecommuting.
 
I only drive to work since I'm A) really not a morning person and B) busy as hell.

But my commute is short enough (a bit over 1 mile) that I know even with cheap gas and a pretty fuel efficient car (I fill up a little more than once a month, depending on how much I do in the way of weekend excursions and shopping), I should really be walking or riding a bike.

Gas at $8-10, I'd just move up my plans to buy a bike, which right now is "when life calms down a little."
 
I walk/take public transportation.

15-20 minute walk from my house to the subway, 30 minute subway ride into the city, and then a ~1 minute walk from the subway to my office.
 
I can ride my bike to work if needed. It's a bit hilly, but nothing I can't do and have already done. It's 2.9 miles to work.

But I'm lazy a lot so I drive most of the time.
 
My old work is a five minute drive and my new work is a 20min drive. My car gets 33mpg combined. If it started costing more than $60 to fill from 1/4 (when I usually get gas), I'd consider either moving closer to work or buying a Prius C.
 
Car gets over 30 mpg. Make enough to afford (would not want to) be able to pay $10+ a gallon. I am not like some of my friend who got the gas guzzler Jeep Wranger or SUV that gets less then 20 mpg. My work trip is less then 10 miles away.
 
Walk, bike, or subway.

I guess if taxis tripled in price I wouldn't consider taking one as often, which is hardly ever as it is.
 
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