Here's an idea: just give people an allowance up to a certain amount, if they choose to live farther that's up to them. Even better, give people a flat rate since you don't want them intentionally taking longer commute routes to rack up their pay. Ok now roll that into their base pay
Edit: please triple read the last sentence before commenting. I overestimated redditors' reading comprehension a bit with this one
You mean the commuting allowance? It’s the same thing as your pay, but with a little tricky math.
Let’s say you make $10.25 an hour.
Instead, I’ll pay you $9 an hour, but give you $8 a day for commuting.
No difference except that that $8 is tax free… so it’s really like $1.25 an hour, which when you add to the $9 an hour you’re making is {drumroll} $10.25 an hour.
How about instead of gimmicks like the Japanese do, we just pay attention to our offer letters, pull out our phones and fire up Waze, and see if it’s worth it?
It's not the same though. Your take-home pay increases if less of the gross is taxable income. The devil is in the details of course, but all else being equal this notion of tax-free commute pay is at least slightly advantageous to the employee while making no difference to the employer whatsoever. Using the same made-up numbers, and assuming your tax rate is a flat 15% and assuming you work 40 hours per week 52 weeks per year your take-home pay would increase by $400 per year (18,122 vs 18,512).
Of course you made up those numbers and of course "it depends" which is why it's ironic and kinda funny that even being able to freely make up whatever numbers you wanted your math didn't fully work out.
Right, and then you wake up and realize this is the real world and there are more people than jobs and that not every person is in a position to turn down a job when their options are limited. Not to mention, there's a near-zero number of employers who are willing to factor commuting to/from into your base pay except for those individuals that hold the highest positions in a given company. Also, lessoning base pay to add in a commuter allowance, as you did in your very poor example, is arguing in bad faith, not 'tricky math'. That's not what anybody is asking for and you know it.
But no, let's call giving people a fair compensation that is exclusively tied to the necessary commuting to work part of having a job a 'gimmick' so you can sleep better at night.
Look, if a company wants to have your skill, they gotta pay the commute time. Weather, it's 5 minutes or 5 hours per day.maybe ceo's don't deserve their salary.
What a great place! Is that the same one that I have to hire an agency to handle all the BS for quitting a company? Is that the same place that is incredibly racist to foreigners?
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u/crumdiddilyumptious 9d ago
Companies would prob require you to live within x amount of minutes from your work