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What does "travel percentage" mean, regarding a job posting? i.e. "Travel Percentage: <20% Travel"

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1. That means that you'll be out of the office on average 1 day a week (or a little under one week a month or less than 50 travel days a year assuming a 2000 hour workyear at 8 hours/day) In other words you will need to travel out of the office less than 20% of the time for the job. I hope that helps.
2. It means that you should expect to be "out of our office" approximately 20% of the time. It is difficult to tell you what that exactly means, because you didn't provide a job description. You might want to clarify what travel means during your interview. Also, they tend to lowball thier estimate of time spent out of the office. For example, if you have a sales management position, you might be have an office that you go to four days a week, but one day a week you might be expected to go to local regional offices. You might want to talk about reimbursement for milage, etc. In my case, I travel out of town one week a month. While this means I am out of the office 25% of the time, but this does not account for my personal time away from home.
3. the amount of time that you will be required to spend traveling (business meetings, etc.) if you take that job position.
4. For that particular position you may be required to travel to accomplish the work required. You may have to drive to a different office or you may have to fly somewhere to meet a client, etc. In your example, you have to travel less than 20% of the time you are at work. For every 40 hours you work, you will have to travel 8 hours.
5. It means, on average, you can expect to be travelling about 20% of the time, or about one day a week. Could be one day trip per week, or one 3-day trip every 3 weeks, or some combination, but it means you'll spend about 20% of your work days travelling.
6. It means AT MOST you will travel 20%, depending on the job it probably means most times you won't be travelling, but you might have to spend a week here or there going to training, business meeting, or something else depending on the job type and how big the company is.