The cost of not working at home

As though we needed any more reason to work at home, think about the rising gas prices. Last month Fox News 5 in Las Vegas did some calculations and that they determined is that it costs a lot to drive to work. In fact, according to their website entry How Much Does It Cost To Drive To Work? workers across America pay anywhere from $14.13 to $55.33 to commute from the suburbs into the city of sampled metropolitan areas. Note that I said from the suburbs to the city, that is for a one way ride. If you want to get back home at the end of your work day you need to double that amount. $28.26 to $110.66 to drive to work and back home for a single day.

And that was when the gas prices averaged $3.76 per gallon, now they are over $4.00 a gallon and rising.

This means that before the gas price increase it was costing people who lived in the suburbs and worked 5 days a week in the city anywhere from $141.30 to $553.30 every week to drive to work and back. That's a serious chunk of the paycheck just to get to work and back home at night. And it does not include car maintenance, oil, transmission fluid, windshield washer fluid, brake fluid, gas additives, tires... the list goes on and gets quite expensive by the time you sit back and look at what it is you are paying to commute to work each year.

No wonder more and more people are looking for ways that they can make money from home.