Submitting travel voucher

I had the morning off, but my travel voucher / finance briefing went from 1:00pm to about 2:30.  (Yeah, hardly a tough day of work.)

There are two sources of extra money related to our move -- first, the Finance stuff; second, the Transportation stuff. As I explained in my Finance Briefing post, the Finance side covers per diem, dislocation allowance, and temporary lodging expense. I also learned that you get mileage for up to two cars that you drive. So that's...

1. Dislocation Allowance. $2750 for a captain with dependents.
2. Mileage for the car -- $318 for the 1385 miles at $0.23 per mile. (Neither the U-Haul truck nor the towed car count).
3. Per Diem for the travel days -- $1353 (see that other post for the breakdown), though we used

I'll file the Temporary Lodging Expense once we're out of the hotel.

On the Transportation side, it works like this: For the 5440 pounds we hauled 1385 miles between our three vehicles, we get $4219. We spent $1723 on "exempt" expenses -- gas, packing materials, an oil change, and the U-Haul truck -- so we made a pre-tax profit of $2500. That gets taxed at 25%, for an after tax profit of $1872.

That's not our overall profit, though -- the car trailer is not an "exempt" expense because it's not strictly "household goods," and neither is the car. When you figure that in ($335), we made  $1536 from the transportation side of things.

Bummer that the trailer doesn't count, but $1500 is not too shabby. I can't think of too many people in the private sector who can actually *profit* from a move.