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Life hours calculator

What you really earn per hour after commuting and work costs, and how many hours of your life a purchase costs.

Life hours calculator

Currency
CHFAfter taxes and social security, bonus included.
h
min
Both ways, in minutes.
After holidays and public holidays.
CHFWhat you spend only because of work: commuting, eating out, clothes, childcare.
CHF
Your real hourly wageCHF 38CHF 44 on paper
This purchase costs you32 hoursof your life, about 3.4 working days

Work takes 2,124 hours a year, commuting included.

The idea comes from the book “Your Money or Your Life” by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez: money is life energy you trade your time for.

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