[saalweachter]

A bus driver costs $10/h (or whatever; an NYC bus driver averages $28/h) per hour of operation.

A transit bus lasts an average of 12 years, and even if you don't run it nights or weekends, that's still around 50,000 hours of driving.

That's $500k at $10/h, and if you run a bus 24/7 in NYC you could spend $3M over the course of the bus's life.

[BobaFloutist]

Per hour per hour? Ok, let's see...second-order integral (these always confuse me because rates are stepping up a dimension but derivatives are stepping down a dimension, but that's neither here nor there), assuming no constants, so they start at 0$/h and there's no sign up bonus...

Got it. After one day, they've made $3423.33 A week gets them over two million dollars, putting a solid, but not insurmountable, dent in the transportation budget. A month over five-hundred million, easily bankrupting most midsized towns. After a year they've made almost half the entirety of the US GDP.

Maybe I should become a bus driver.