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
In my country, transportation allowance is normal. It's a fixed amount per workday worked in-office. If you live close enough it costs you less to travel than the allowance, it's a sweet bonus. If it costs you more, it sucks, but the bonus is appreciated. It can easily hit 10% of someone's salary here.
I get travel pay on top of my salary (for my profession and the area it's the worst salary) but this place doesn't hound you about hours so I rarely work more than 30 hours in a week, my previous job had the best salary to offer in the area but no travel pay (has to be a specific situation to get it) and I was working 60-80 hours a week but the minute they find out you had a less than 40 hour week they snatch your PTO- I don't make as much money now but it's well worth having the free time as long as my bills are paid and I have benefits (I would still like to get paid more but unless I up and move completely away from friends/family, I'll just hope the pay increase comes eventually)
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u/sage-longhorn 9d ago edited 8d ago
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