I have a job offer for an exec-level position from a company in San Francisco and I live in LA. The plan is to move back to SF in a year (I have kids) but until then the job will require me to commute weekly from LA for 2-3 days/week. The comp is good but they’re only offering me 5K for a whole year’s worth of back-and-forth travel and accommodatiions, which actually will cost more like 45k. I have done this in the reverse for Disney and they paid for all of my expenses, so I was surprised that any company wouid expect an employee to pay for flights and accommodations. I think it can be negotiated but before I start doing so I want to get a sense of whether this expectation is unusual or not. It’s a smallish company but well past being a startup, and it’s profitable.
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5K is BS for a year of travel between SF and la. Are u sure it's not per trip?
You can make it work by taking the Greyhound 😎
Uh....no.
You are choosing not to move. If they pay 40k year and you say it’ll need to be another year then they are stuck. They are incentivizing you to move sooner. There’s also no way it’s 40k to commute 2x a week
Yes, I suspect it’s meant to be an incentivizing move. The problem is it’s disincentivizing bc they knew from the beginning that I couldn’t move right away because of my kids’ school needs. So this is the wrong approach with me. And yes, 40-50k covers roughly 45 RT flights plus 2-3 nights at a hotel for each trip.
How are you travelling 2-3 times a week with 2-3 nights each trip? It's like you are spending the whole week in SF. The math isn't adding up?
2-3 days travel every week is brutal. Make it once every 2 weeks and push for WFH. Negotiate for 100% travel expenses on the company since its once every 2 weeks. Again it all depends on how much excited you are about the new job.
İ even know 2 professors in 2 seperate univerisities on the east coast that paid the profs back and forth travel. And universities dont pay a lot. One was upstate ny to florida every week. The other was nyc to upstate ny. İd all they are offering is 5k, either they are not that interested. Or they are encouraging you to move.
Thank you! That’s a helpful data point.
On a side note, Profs get paid a lot. At least in private Universities.