Do you think it'd be okay to rent your computer from your company and pay for your office space and desk? Or split the costs of their servers or cloud costs with their employees? No, nobody sane thinks this.
My point is that parking (or some reasonable transit alternative) should be figured into the operating costs for the company. Acting like employees don't need to actually get to work is not a good way to run a business.
It should be $0/mo for your parking, your company should be getting you the space as part of your overall compensation/operating costs.
I should add, the office I worked at now sits empty, every single employee who worked there left (including myself).
Real companies understand that as part of their facility costs, they need to provide this stuff. So they pay for a parking lot when land is cheap, or pay for monthly parking in cities. Or they pay to subsidize mass transit. If a company doesn't want to pay for the cost of running a business in a place with expensive parking, then they should office where parking is cheap. If they don't want to pay for the cost of actually running their business, they shouldn't be in it.
It's the employee's cost to figure out how to get to work, it's the company's cost to figure out what to do with them once they get there.
When deciding between two offers just monetize all perks that you expect to use including convenience factor. Parking not provided? Subtract (Daily parking rate + parking_timehourly_rate)200 / (1-marginal_tax_rate) from salary.
Provides CalTrain pass? Add $45 dollars to salary (I expect to use it 3 times/year).
It's about the wasted time dealing with a parking space.
The companies that don't provide parking often locate in places where you spend an hour a day, in aggregate, dealing with parking one way or another-- looking for a space, walking to the building from the space, etc.
My point is that parking (or some reasonable transit alternative) should be figured into the operating costs for the company. Acting like employees don't need to actually get to work is not a good way to run a business.
It should be $0/mo for your parking, your company should be getting you the space as part of your overall compensation/operating costs.
I should add, the office I worked at now sits empty, every single employee who worked there left (including myself).
Real companies understand that as part of their facility costs, they need to provide this stuff. So they pay for a parking lot when land is cheap, or pay for monthly parking in cities. Or they pay to subsidize mass transit. If a company doesn't want to pay for the cost of running a business in a place with expensive parking, then they should office where parking is cheap. If they don't want to pay for the cost of actually running their business, they shouldn't be in it.
It's the employee's cost to figure out how to get to work, it's the company's cost to figure out what to do with them once they get there.