Finance
Estimate what office days cost per month: daily transport, extra food, and commute time valued at your hourly rate.
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Cash cost is transport plus extra food, times office days. Time value is commute hours times hourly value. The total combines both.
Bars are scaled to the largest component, showing whether transport, food, or time dominates the monthly cost.
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Each row reuses your daily transport, food, minutes, and hourly value and varies only office days, so cost scales linearly with days in the office.
Monthly cost = office days × (daily transport + extra food + commute minutes ÷ 60 × hourly value). Cost per office day = daily transport + extra food + commute minutes ÷ 60 × hourly value.
Office days 12, transport $55, extra food $35, commute 100 minutes, hourly value $80. Per day: $55 + $35 + 100 ÷ 60 × $80 = $90 + $133.33 = $223.33. Monthly = 12 × $223.33 = $2,680. Cash half = 12 × $90 = $1,080; time half = 12 × $133.33 = $1,600; commute time = 20 hours per month.
The result combines cash costs and time value: it is not a pure cash outlay, and the cash half alone is $1,080 in the worked example. Enter costs after any reimbursement, or the cash half is overstated. Career benefits, collaboration, office conditions, and wellbeing effects in either direction are outside this model, as are clothing, vehicle wear beyond the transport input, and parking unless included in it.
Each office day costs daily transport plus extra food plus commute minutes divided by 60 times hourly value; multiply by office days per month.
No. Only the cash half (transport plus food) leaves your wallet. The time half values commute hours at your hourly rate — set hourly value to zero for a cash-only figure.
Food spending above what you would spend working from home: bought lunches, coffee, and snacks, net of home food you no longer eat. Do not count your full lunch bill if you would eat lunch anyway.
Yes. Enter what you actually pay after any employer travel subsidy or pass discount, or the cost is overstated.
Then valuing every minute at full hourly rate overstates the cost. Reduce the hourly value for commute time, or count only the unproductive share of the commute in minutes.
No. It prices one side of the decision. Collaboration, mentoring, visibility, and personal preference are real benefits that this money-and-time model does not price.
Results are estimates only and do not constitute professional advice.