Job location 'less important than money'
Wed 29 Oct 2008
People are more willing to travel further to get to work than take a pay cut, it has been suggested.
The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has said that people tend to stick to jobs where they have to commute for long periods of time if they get a high salary.
Paul Sellers, TUC working time policy adviser, said: "People who travel a very long way to work in the finance sector have one of the top jobs there, [and] they've got some of the longest commutes of all.
"People will travel a long way for jobs in mining and quarrying because those are quite well paid jobs for those who don't have many qualifications."
He added that most of these workers would rather stay at their current job than halve their pay and work nearer home.
His comments follow data from the TUC's Labour Force Survey which revealed that commuters working in London are most likely to travel for more than one hour each day.
On average, employees in the UK spend 54 minutes travelling to and from work each day, while one in five spends more than an hour on their journey.
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