Paying for gas
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Anonymous
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Hi ,
I am going for interview for after school care. One of my responsibility is going to be take kids to activities. Mom told me there it's going to be very close within 7 miles. Do I ave to ask them to pay me for gas? Thanks |
Anonymous
| If they pay me an outstanding hourly rate, I wouldn't bother. But if they're paying you something mediocre, yes, let them pay you for gas. |
Anonymous
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I was offered: $15/hr plus pay for gas OR $22/hr no gas.
25 hours a week. |
Anonymous
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I would take the $22/HR definitely.
Plus you won't have to keep track of miles. |
Anonymous
This, of course! |
Anonymous
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You need to break out a calculator and do the math.
How many hours will you be working? How many miles would you be driving? Is the higher hourly rate better, or would the gas money be better? Driving 14 miles every day would be nearly $38 a week. |
Anonymous
At $7 more an hour, she'd make that in almost a day. OP, I would probably take the higher amount, but also cap mileage. Assuming the IRS reimbursement rate of $.53/mi, that $7 buys them a little over 13 miles. So I would cap mileage at 13 x #hours they are paying for. |
Anonymous
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If you take the higher amount, it's an added $175/week.
Will your gas ever be that high? If they were reimbursing you the federal mileage rate, $175 would cover more than 300 miles. Take the higher rate but you should not be greedy/cap it as they already seem to be quite generous. Maybe they consider the higher amount a subsidy on your commute, too (which is not required/expected, ever). |
Anonymous
I agree with this. If you ever start to feel taken advantage of, you could say something at that point. I'm actually not sure why they would prefer to do it this way! Why not just pay you the mileage? |
Anonymous
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Thanks for all helpful advices. Can they pay me mileage? If yes how it's work?
Thanks |
Anonymous
They are offering one or the other. How is this so confusing for you? You can deduct it from your taxes, but somehow I have the suspicion that it too would be too complicated to figure out. |
Anonymous
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Why would you want mileage for 7 miles (times 5 days a week) over $175? 35 weekly miles is around $18 or so.
There must be more that you aren't sharing. Otherwise, why would you possibly want $18 over $175?! |
Anonymous
I read it as 7 miles each way, which would mean 14 miles. OP never said how many hours she is working, how many different activities she'd be driving to, etc. Tons of info missing |
Anonymous
| Mileage is paid through the IRS reimbursement rate. You keep track of your miles, and they pay $0.53.5 per mile. It is supposed to cover wear and tear, insurance, and gas. |
Anonymous
She said 25 hours per week. It's easy to see that the higher wage is a better deal based even on the limited information we have. If she drives the kids to a different activity every hour (25 total activities), and drives 7 miles from each destination to the next (home to first activity, 7 miles from first activity to second activity, and so on), that's only going to get her to 180-210 miles, or so (depending on the number of days she works). 210 miles times 0.535 is $112 and change. The difference in fees is $175/week. She would need to drive more than 300 miles to make up the difference between the two rates - and that is only possible if she is working more than 25 hours (which she isn't), is driving to a different activity every hour (which we all know isn't happening), and is driving more than 7 miles to each of those 25 activities (again, which we know isn't happening). |