What does your job really pay per hour?

After unpaid overtime, commuting time and the costs you only have because you work there.

Take-home pay per year

Contracted hours per week

Unpaid extra hours per week

Commute hours per week (both ways)

Commute + parking cost per year

Other job-only costs per year (clothes, lunches, childcare)

—

Headline hourly rate	—
Real hourly rate	—
Hours a year the job really takes	—

Using this to decide

Once you know your real hourly rate, price things in hours instead of pounds. A £600 phone upgrade is not "£600" — it is however many hours of your life at the rate below. It is also the honest way to compare two job offers: a higher salary an hour further away can easily be a pay cut.