Your career travel costs.
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A lot of folks in this forum obviously travel for business. I was having a look back at my travel for first half of 08 and I was quite surprised how much i'd spent, or rather how much work had spent on me to travel.
So then it got me wondering, has anyone done some loose figures as to how much their work has spent on their travel in total? Because I can imagine for some folks in here it would be quite a lot - running into the hundreds of thousands.
I'm talking mostly airfare + accom.
And I don't have a figure of my own but I do know that I certainly could not have afforded to fund it myself looking back at it :P
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Hmm for me a quick and dirty summary from this employer $'000:
July 06 US/UK = 28
Sep 06 NZ = 3
Nov 06 US = 15
Dec 06 Asia = 12
Mar 07 US = 12
May 07 Asia = 9
Jul 07 UK/US = 20
Sep 07 Asia/US = 15
Dec 07 Asia = 9
Feb 08 Asia = 9
Mar 08 Asia/US = 15
Total for this employer $147K - ball park
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Re: Your career travel costs
$1000 this year (give or take a little) so far.
Previous years have ranged from $1000-$5000 on accom, airfares and similar expenses.
Spot the person who doesn't travel much for work
Personal spend is a lot different. I think the most I spent in a year for personal travel for me was around $30K or $40K. Have toned down the travel a touch since then!
This year I have done only 1 personal trip and 12 business trips, mainly to BKK and SIN. Average flight costs per trip is about $2.5K with accommodation at about $1K per trip so that would work out to be about total spend of $45K so far this year.
I think my company would average about $70 - $100K each year on me, just depends on how many SIN trips I do as hotels are quite expensive there.
Being doing that level for the past 4 years so I guess my company has spent around $300 - $400K in that time, well our clients end up paying for the majority of my travel.
Now how many FF points that adds up to is the big question? I will work it out and post it later.
I think I have earned around 300,000 FF points this year on travel. I can add about another 90,000 from Credit card transfer and that adds up to 390,000 points earned. Shame that next month I will apply and if I get it lose 192K point son a MEL-JFK J upgrade. Ouch!
I think I have earned around 300,000 FF points this year on travel. I can add about another 90,000 from Credit card transfer and that adds up to 390,000 points earned. Shame that next month I will apply and if I get it lose 192K point son a MEL-JFK J upgrade. Ouch!
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