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Work From Home Savings

Add up money and time saved by working from home.

About Work From Home Savings

Working from home avoids commuting fuel, parking and bought lunches each office day, and also reclaims the commuting time itself. Remote work's savings are real and recurring, so quantifying them helps justify the home-office setup it requires.

Formula

Work From Home Savings

Daily savings = commute + parking + lunch; monthly = daily x office days

commute
Per-day commuting and parking outlay avoided

Worked example

With the default values below, Work From Home Savings returns Daily Savings of $25.00. Change any input above and every figure here is recalculated in your browser.

Inputs used

Commute cost/day
12
Parking/day
5
Lunch out/day
8
Office days/monthminimum 0
20
Commute minutes/dayminimum 0
60

Results

Daily Savings
$25.00
Monthly Savings
$500.00
Annual Savings
$6,000.00
Commute Hours Saved/Month
20.00

Step by step

  1. 1Values used
  2. 2Work From Home Savings
  3. 3Daily Savings= 25.00
  4. 4Monthly Savings= 500.00
  5. 5Annual Savings= 6,000.00
  6. 6Commute Hours Saved/Month= 20.00

Assumptions and limits

  • The result is derived only from the 5 inputs listed above. Anything not among them is not part of the calculation.
  • In particular, this calculator does not take inflation, tax or compounding frequency into account.
  • Figures are rounded for display to 2 decimal places, so totals built from several rounded parts can differ slightly from the unrounded arithmetic.

How these calculators are built and tested is described on the Methodology page. If a figure looks wrong, please report it.

Frequently Asked Questions

How is Work From Home Savings calculated?

Daily savings = commute + parking + lunch; monthly = daily x office days Working from home avoids commuting fuel, parking and bought lunches each office day, and also reclaims the commuting time itself.

Why does Work From Home Savings matter?

Remote work's savings are real and recurring, so quantifying them helps justify the home-office setup it requires.

What values do I need to enter?

This calculator takes 5 inputs: Commute cost/day, Parking/day, Lunch out/day, Office days/month, Commute minutes/day. The pre-filled defaults are a realistic starting point — replace them with figures from your own environment for a result you can act on.

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