What does 20% travel time mean?

Also, 20% travel could mean overnight travel once a week or a full week out of town every 5 weeks or a full month out of town every 5 months. So it's important to ask for specific examples of what the travel will look like if you are agreeing up front to travel requirements for the role.



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Travel percentage. That 20% is an average, and what it represents can vary dramatically by career, so make sure you ask your hiring manager to tell you exactly what the travel percentage means for the position you're applying for.

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So if you work 50 weeks a year and have to take 5 business trips a year each of which lasts 1 week (say, visiting a client as part of a project), that would be 10%.

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30% would be 3 days out of every 2 weeks. You might fly out to visit a client on Sunday, work there Monday through Wednesday, fly home Wednesday night, then work locally the rest of that week and the following week. That would be 30% travel, even though you spent time Sunday and Wednesday evening traveling.

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Also, 20% travel could mean overnight travel once a week or a full week out of town every 5 weeks or a full month out of town every 5 months. So it's important to ask for specific examples of what the travel will look like if you are agreeing up front to travel requirements for the role.

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80% travel typically means every week, M-Th at the client site. Fly out early Monday AM, leave the client site Th afternoon.

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25% travel could mean you travel for 3 months straight out of the year.

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The way I always calculate travel is doing x% of 260 work days (without holidays or PTO), so 10% would be 26 days. It could be one day every two weeks or two days every four weeks, it could be one entire month of year.

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