Research Breakdown

Finding 1. The average financial cost of a PR commute into London is now £5,622 per year or 16% of the average annual London net post-tax PR industry salary.

Finding 2. The average daily time cost of a PR commute into London is nearly two and half hours per day when you combine the rail commute, travel to/from home to the station, and connecting London Underground travel to the office. Annually this equates to employees giving away an average of £13,154 worth of unpaid overtime to get to the office, based on the PRCA’s estimated average annual London annual PR salary.

Finding 3. When you project this commuting time over a year, the average cost of a PR commute to London equates to 24 full 24-hour days per year. Over a ten-year period, this is 240 full 24-hour days, which is the equivalent of one full working year of 24-hour days of a person’s life after you have deducted holidays. In summary, employees spend the equivalent of one entire working year of their lives commuting over a ten year period.

Finding 4. For parents, commuting time equals additional wraparound childcare time and costs. The average cost of wraparound childcare for London commuters is £18.86 per day or £4,450.57 per year. This equates to an average of 12.57% of employee’s net post-tax annual PR industry salary.

Finding 5. When you combine the annual cost of travel with the cost of wraparound childcare, the average London commuter is paying out £10,115 of their net post-tax salary per year to get to their London office. This equates to 28% of the annual average net post-tax London PR salary.