If you’re a Boulder business leader working on your 2025 budget, don’t forget to include transportation benefits for your staff. For the next calendar year, you can provide EcoPasses for all employees starting at $950 (just $20/person for businesses with more than 48 employees), before available reimbursements and tax credits. Your final out-of-pocket cost could be as low as $238 for the entire year for all your employees!
Coupled with Colorado’s Alternative Transportation Options Tax Credit – which cuts the cost of providing EcoPasses and other sustainable transportation resources in half – it’s never been a better time to encourage employees to get to work by taking the bus, bicycling, or commuting together. Plus, businesses in the city of Boulder enrolling for the first or second year can benefit from an additional cost-cutting incentive.
The EcoPass is a great pre-tax benefit for your staff. Having a transit pass has been shown to make people seven times more likely to use transit. The pass covers rides on local and regional buses including the Skip, the HOP, all Flatiron Flyer buses, and the AB bus to Denver International Airport. You can also ride the NB bus to Eldora Mountain Ski Resort in the winter and connect with the Hessie Shuttle for summer hikes.
Join more than 100 businesses in Boulder that offer the EcoPass to their employees and demonstrate your commitment to your staff and to improving our air quality.
Transportation Connections can help you get started today:
- Fill out the RTD employer information form at https://tinyurl.com/mr26bmnp
- Host lunch & learn sessions at your workplace to orient employees to the mobile EcoPass
- Our staff can connect you with resources to take advantage of the city subsidy and state tax credit
For more information, go to the Transit Pass Options page of our website, or contact us at ecopass@boulderchamber.com.