Would you accept a job offer for $12,000 more than you're currently making if the commute was a little over an hour and you had no possibility of ever working from home?

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I feel like it depends… starting your career and life out having a 12k boost to your salary could be a huge benefit to leapfrog your career / life early on. However, there is a lot more to choosing if someplace is a good fit for you outside or wfh and commute. As someone who has had commutes ranging from 0-1.5 hour one way the reasons I joined or left companies ultimately was never down to the commute. It was always due to opportunities and culture.

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I would say go for it as long as you feel excited about it. You are young, now is the time to explore, fail, learn and grow..
I had a 30 min commute.. I prayed for longer just so I can catch some zzzzzz on the train (true story.. don’t judge me 😜)
I had a nice quite 55 min commute, but I wanted to work in the big city(NYC) and drink and party every night, but couldn’t afford the city apt and had a 1.5 hour commute..
now I have a 15 min commute and covid wouldn’t let me see ppl..
what I am trying to say is.. be young.. make YOUR UNIQUE MISTAKES and learn and pivot..
Also.. don’t stay so long at your dream company that it becomes a nightmare!

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I would say yes. Salary is such a snowball, that a little increase now means much more down the road, in aggregate (total wealth) as well as the increases in your total annual comp.

Not even for 50k

Just guessing you're probably under market for the position now. You can ask to correct that, but it's hard to do and not always resolvable. But the choice ultimately depends what you'd want long term. A small firm in a rapidly growing industry (or a rapidly growing firm) can have tons more long-term opportunity and potential than a position in a big prestigious firm where there's no room for growth. But you'd have to be on the path for growth, otherwise you'll just be watching on the sidelines anyway.

No. It’s not enough to give up the time communicating. I’ve done that commute and even with audio books it will burn you out.

No.

Probably not unless I felt a sense of urgency to leave my current role

no way, of course I'm coming from a place that i wouldn't accept a 20k raise given all the benefits I have. you need to consider that for that raise, you're adding 10 hours a week of work time. That comes out to 480 hours a year(assuming time off). You're basically working an additional 12 weeks a year in order to get another 12k a year. Then when you consider gas costs, in the end you're really not getting a raise. You're getting overtime.

I wouldn’t. Based on eveyrhing you’ve mentioned that 12k will come with a ton of headaches. After a year and a half in a pandemic you absolutely have to offer flexibility within the role or you will lose talent.

Assuming you mean an hour each way, and you currently work from home or have a short commute, that's mathematically equivalent to getting paid about $20/hour to drive to work and then making your current wage once you're in the building. In other words, it's a bad deal unless you currently make less than $20/hour.

That said, you would probably need to double my salary before I'd even consider commuting an hour (I was fully remote even pre-COVID).

ITS A TRICK QUESTION! When you factor in all costs, commutation costs about$12k per year. WFH saves that much. Really a no-brainer

No way.

$12,000/year over 250 working days is $48/day or $24/hr for the 2 hour daily drive time. If your pay rate is <$24/hr then do it. Otherwise it’s not worth your time.

I vote no. $12,000 is almost a lateral move. If you’re happy where you are and enjoy your life balance, don’t be tricked by the allure of a little more money. $12k over a year and after taxes is such a minuscule change, you’d hardly even notice it in your take home pay.

I actually just turned down an offer similar to this except the commute was pretty much the same as my current commute, they were offering $15K more a year, but they were very strict about being in office, no remote work, and i sensed a crunch culture. The $15K was tempting but there were too many red flags

I would not. Unless the value of the job was extremely exciting. I would not commute for over an hour for any job.

Absolutely not.

No.

Probably not. At that point you’re trading more of your time for money. Depending on the difference in commute time from your current job, you should be factoring that in. Add that additional time spent driving every day, both ways, 5 days a week, for a year...that adds up. See if that time is really worth $12k to you.

Doesn’t sound like enough of Bump to me for that personally

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