If you currently work from home or are hybrid, how much extra would you want p.a. to work from the office 5 days per week ?

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If you currently work from home or are hybrid, how much extra would you want p.a. to work from the office 5 days per week ?

Just that really.

Actually doing the maths, it would have to be more than double. As I would lose any benefit personally on double - that would all be lost on additional childcare and tax. More like triple.

I wouldn't consider a new role that was 100% office based. It wouldn't be a good fit for me, and the company culture probably wouldn't match up for me.

I was hoping answers would be along the lines of:-
I currently wfh 3 days per week, earn £100k p.a., my commute is 45 mins.
To return to the office 5 days per week I’d require an extra £50k p.a.

No worries if that’s not how people want the thread to progress.

It’s tricky- my salary is the same level (plus usual pay rises) as it was pre covid, when WFH was not an option. I’m saving £90 a month in train fares and I get a lot of time back only going in once or twice a week. If I needed to find another job then WFH would be quite high on my list of required benefits. Our HR department have noticed this with a lot of applicants and as I work in an organisation that hires a lot of specialists, the applicants can afford to be picky.

If you want something like that -

My salary is approximately £50k. I would not apply for any role that did not offer hybrid working, even if it was an additional £100k. I don’t need to earn that kind of money to be comfortable.

I wouldn’t work in the office every day for a million pounds per annum. It’s family time which money can’t buy.

I work 4 days, 2 at home for about £50k. I like the balance.

I genuinely recently rejected applying for a role that was £65k because it required 5 office days. I just don’t want to do it.

I would be the opposite - to work from home full time I would need enough extra to build an extension. The kitchen table is fine for the odd day here and there but isn't a long term solution.
I changed jobs shortly before the first lockdown and one of the last things I did in my last job/first things I did in my new job was work station assessments to ensure seats screens etc were ergonomically correct. I suspect there are lots of home working set ups that would fail that assessment.

I do 3 days in the office- in my industry more and more are back 4-5 days. I will do it once my youngest starts school and I can pay for home help- for which I would look for a job to jump up 15k gross.

For my current job, it would need to be more than double to factor costs and lost time, so maybe about £150,000. Even then, I'm genuinely not sure if I would do it, I've got enough money now that I really do value my time more.

My company pays a £400pcm stipend to cover cost of going in to the office and a £300pcm stipend to cover the costs of wfh. We are 3 days in 2 at home per week. I’m pretty happy with that amount but wouldn’t be if I had to go in for the extra two days.

I have a flexible hybrid arrangement....it's priceless me and I'd leave if it changed, whether more money was on offer or not.

Absolutely this.

We put in a log cabin garden office for under £15k. Much cheaper than an extension.

DH WFH full time (nothing to do with Covid) - it is heated and insulated and he has a sofa and TV. It’s also got amazing countryside views and sheep for company. Much better than any office workplace for us.

I agree.

Ok, after your update:

I work FT, with 2 days in the office and 3 at home. My current salary is just over £100k.

To get me in 5 days a week, I'd want someone to drive me so I can relax on the journey. A quick Uber tells me this is £50 one-way off-peak, so let's make it £70 for peak commuting times. That's £140 a day x 5 = £700 a week. I get 5 weeks A/L, so £700 x 47 weeks = £32900.

Add £30k for the inconvenience, pressure on my home life, lunches and laundry, that's £62900. Round that up to £65k.

To get an extra £65k a year take-home, add the 40% tax back on, so that's £91k extra on my salary please.

This. I go into various sites for team meetings and it's exhausting!

Nope. My health means days not commuting are vital. And I love being at home most days when my children come home. Plus I was never primarily motivated by money

Enough that I could retire right now, which kinda defeats the purpose!

I wfh 5 days a week earning mid 40K. I have rejected roles for 60K due to them requiring 3 days in the office. As I said there is no money in the world that could entice me back into an office.

It depends on your contract the majority of time your not in a position to demand anything

tbh a lot of companies including mine are going back to the office
employees seem to of got the impression that the doing the company a favour working for them and can do as they please

I would want an extra £75k per year, which is double. That is never going to happen & realistically I would never go back to full time commuting. Or even regular part time commuting. Would happily go in person for a local job, but mine takes 2.5 hours one way door to door.

I'm fully wfh. And I love it. So for me, I'd need to earn 3x my wage to make it actually worth it. Which would put me on more than management 3 levels above me, so would never happen.

£50k extra, I’m currently on £100k for a three day week. So exactly like your worked example OP, but that’s my actual life and what I would need to go back to being in the office!

My health can’t cope with it, is the main reason.

Id need alot of money to do it because I’d have to farm alot out to paper over the cracks

I work for the same employer as pre covid, so I couldn’t expect them to pay me more if they demand I come back 5 days a week.

As it happens I’m lucky to be an easy 8-10 min drive from the office, which has an abundance of free parking. I actually prefer being in the office with others.

But if I was to look for a new job outside of my area and needed to commute 30mins+, incurring extra costs and inconvenience it would need be be a hefty pay rise, OR a job that I really loved which made it worth the hassle and expense.