I divided my daily cost of food by my pay rate and it turns out that to feed myself (just me, not the wife and kids) I need to work 13 minutes, 38 seconds.
How long do you need to work to feed yourself for a day?
Really depends on what I eat. The last two nights dinners were both in the $125-150 range, but that’s not average. Not sure what average is. Now I guess I’ll have to do the math to figure out how much I make in hourly terms. Should I divide my annual income by 2080 or by the number of hours I actually work?
Roughly 24 minutes, but that’s average over the whole month. I have Sundays as double pay, so I suppose its around 30 minutes normally but closer to 15 minutes on Sundays. Depends a bit on how fast I do my rounds, too.
Keeping it per the OP (gross pay and not take-home), about 30 or 40 minutes. Take-home (strictest – after all deductions, retirement, and the amount that goes automatically to savings), an hour.
Interesting question!
I just used gross pay.
Depends on what I eat for the day, but 15-30 minutes.
Hard to estimate my food expense. Should I include wine?
About 12 minutes, assuming a cheap dinner and the high end of my sliding fee schedule.
25 minutes based on gross pay and not including my bonus.
Interesting. This really should be a poll!
About 20-30 minutes. Based on after tax pay.
I am really curious if people with high incomes have the same ratio as people with lower incomes. Obviously it will saturate at both ends of the scale, but it would be quite interesting if it were linear in the middle.
I doubt it personally. I’ve known a few families with multiple high income earning professionals and they only eat slightly better than middle class families (both meals at home and meals in restaurants) despite earning 5-15x+ more money.
For the typical eat at home day, it’s between 10 and 15 minutes. But tonight the wife and I went out and splurged and I ate an hour’s gross pay. That’s rare though, I could have gotten a better meal for half the price, but my wife wanted to go to the expensive place.
Assuming one third of our weekly food budget goes to feed me, I make it about 23 minutes.
Based upon gross pay, about 5 minutes.
Bashing around on the calculator gives me about 15 minutes, based on gross pay and a pulled-out-of-my-ass estimate of food costs for just me.
23 minutes sounds about right to me.
Why are people basing it on gross pay? Are you inviting the IRS out to lunch every day?
Just following the lead of the OP. Their premise.
All three meals? About four hours.
Between 20 and 25 minutes. I work two jobs at two different pay rates, so it depends which job / day I’m working.
Guesstimate 45 minutes. I spend freely on food though, it is kind of what I want. Can’t just make mashed potatoes, no, they gotta have goat cheese and heavy whipping cream. Or wine. Let’s go out for sushi (like, 10 minutes from this posting). It is always something 