12 year old missed the bus, how does she pay me?

Lots of cleaning, vacuuming, dusting in her future.

How old is she? 

Not sure how to price out the cost of chauffeur service, but in our house the consequence for not getting up in the morning was to be sent to bed earlier with no screens at least an hour before bedtime.

ETA ha - was looking for the age in the OP, missed it in the thread title, but doesn't change my response.

Every time she misses the bus she goes to bed an hour earlier for a week.

Wow. Maybe you said that in jest, and I'm just not reading it how you meant, but that is harsh.

What an unkind and shitty thing to suggest.

jennyap : I hadn't thought to charge for the return trip. Darn, I missed out on some extra bucks!

DD is now an incredibly responsible college sophomore with several 8 a.m. classes. That's something I could never have imagined would happen. She really changed her ways.

Her sister (my younger DD) is up so early, she wakes the roosters up (almost).

I would be making her go to bed 1/2 hr earlier and keep adding time until she is able to get up on time for school. As for making up for the drive? maybe have her do some chores that you weren't able to do due to the time spent driving her to school.

Does she get breakfast with cutting the time so close?

My husband's mother used a squirt gun. Once! Husband never was late for school again.

May be harsh, but that's what my great grandmother (who raised me) did to me. Actually, a wet wash cloth, so no wet bed, but same results! Only had to do it once, too! It worked.
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Her allowance or other income will be diverted to pay for my trip to a Starbucks for a treat. $7.

Each and every time this happens, the price goes up.

My mother kept a plastic cup filled with marbles in the freezer. When my brother refused to get up, she dumped cold marbles into their beds. It worked.

I agree with 1/2 hour earlier to bed than normal. And increase it a 1/2 hour more every night until she gets up without all the fanfare.

I would also get her an alarm clock so that she is responsible for setting it and getting out of bed in the morning. You can be the back up to the clock until she is used to setting it and getting up in the morning.

The idea for taxi fees is great too.

My oldest never had a problem being up and out the door on time for school. My youngest was another story. He didn't want to ride the bus either. I finally told him that if I had to take him to school, I would be taking him in my old ratty robe; pjs, and slippers. My hair is short and is wild in the morning before I take a shower...I dubbed it "Medusa hair". Not a pretty picture is it? I also told him that I would be parking the car and walking him into the school for all his friends to see. I would loudly wish him a wonderful school day and give him a big sloppy momma kiss in front of everyone and make sure to wave until he disappeared. I never had to take him to school.

I highly doubt the PDA was an issue. This was my marching band kid that would kiss and hug me good bye and tell me that he loved me in the middle of the bleachers in front of all his band buddies and band parents when I left the game.

I used to squirt my DS with cold water to get him out of bed. Nothing else was working.  After this happened two or three times, the threat of it was enough. In fact, I think I need to reinstate this now that he is 19, as it is even more difficult to get him out of bed. He gets himself up for college, but if he has a day off, he can easily stay in bed until 3pm. Drives me crazy. 

That was tactic used here. One son required several setbacks on bed time before he understood the punishment, and gained a needed half hour of sleep.