🏠 Remote Work Savings Calculator

Counting only fuel or fares captures half the story — this calculator sums round-trip commuting cost and the value of round-trip commuting time. Suppose you drive 10 miles each way at $0.35/mile in fuel and wear: daily cost is 10 × 2 × 0.35 = $7. Add a 40-minute one-way commute valued at $25/hour: (40 × 2 ÷ 60) × 25 ≈ $33.30 per day — nearly five times the driving cost. At 5 days a week for 50 weeks, annual savings come to (7 + 33.30) × 250 = about $10,075, and the recovered time alone is 333 hours a year — roughly eight and a half working weeks. The longer your commute, the more the value of remote work comes from time, not fuel — this tool makes that visible in numbers.

For driving, include more than fuel in your per-mile cost: tires, oil changes, and mileage-linked depreciation are real. Fuel alone at 25 MPG and $3.50/gallon is about $0.14/mile, but the IRS 2026 standard rate of 72.5¢/mile suggests total driving cost is far higher — somewhere between the two is realistic depending on your car. For transit, enter the actual daily round-trip fare including transfers. Time value is the debatable input: the common choice is salary ÷ 2,080 hours (40 hours × 52 weeks); the conservative choice is 0, which reduces the tool to pure commuting-cost savings. If you genuinely use commute time well (podcasts, reading on the train), a middle ground is discounting your hourly rate by 30–50%. For hybrid schedules, set "commute days per week" to the number of days you now stay home — the result is your partial savings.