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Think your commute is bad? Pity the 'megacommuter'
- Staff Kansas City Business Journal
Roughly 10.8 million U.S. workers commute an hour each way to work — and they're not the worst of the bunch, according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau.
The Census Bureau named 600,000 workers as "megacommuters." This group is made of those who commute at least 90 minutes and 50 miles each way. The Bureau says 1 in 122 full-time workers can be classified as a megacommuter.
Megacommuters are overwhelmingly male (75 percent), and tend to be older, married with spouses who don't work, and have higher salaries.
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