Originally Posted by bostonpilot

I'm very much of the same mindset and observation as you are here. For us, we've been trying to slash travel spend as much as we can across the company over 2022/23. We have a very globally distributed team, customer base and business which makes that hard, but we lean very heavily on virtual meetings, etc. now and we've been doing what we can to cut travel.

That said, it's also way up among a smaller group of us across the top of the company as showing up in person has never been more critical to winning in our business and offsetting such a virtual business model. So, same as you, the number of people traveling is way down, but some of our individual spend is way up.

For me, 2022 was $89k and 2023 will land right around $80k +/- $1-2k, and 2024 will likely be the same or more. I'm really curious to see how the GS quals play out this year. For me at $89k in BOS it was a not a concern for me, but my boss (also a former GS) was a no out of Sfo at ~$55k spend last year.