When we start thinking about our daily commutes by the math, it gets depressing fast. According to the United States Census Bureau, the national mean of one-way travel time to work is 27.2 minutes. If you double that up to account for the drive home and then stretch that out over a full year of five-day work weeks, that’s almost 10 days each year, not counting holidays or days off.
How much would most people pay to get that time back while eliminating the stress of Colorado’s crowded highways, like Interstate 25 and Interstate 70? According to some Denver-area workers, a little over $3,200.
Online career platform Resume.io surveyed over 3,000 people in July to see how much money they were willing to cough up to escape their daily commutes, with 59% saying they would take a lower annual salary for a significantly reduced daily work trip. The average amount Colorado respondents were willing to relinquish was $3,287, with two stretches of I-25 fetching even more…