Advice needed from people currently living in LA/Malibu!

so i just graduated from school in SF, and now moving back down to orange county to live. but my new job most likely will place me in Malibu. I live in the westminster area. however, in order to save up for a house (and pay off school loans). i'll make good money (6 figures before tax) and i actually would not mind the commute doing this in order to achieve those goals.

but since i'm not familiar with the traffic in the LA area going into malibu, just want a lot of advice from you guys.

i know how bad the 405 is, but wondering how bad is an extra 10-12 miles along the PCH can add onto my commute.

my work hours vary. if i work 10-7, i dont think the commute would be too bad at all (i've been commuting as an intern to LA for the past few days and it takes me around 1h and 15 mins to get there, and 40 minutes to come home, which is actually surprisingly ok).

but again, i hear that PCH is just an actual highway and no freeway leads directly to malibu. so was wondering how bad is PCH? is PCH that bad ALL the time? every hour? i read that it's a really nice drive. and traffic is only bad if there are acidents (but it's rare, like 6 per year).

if i work from 8-5, what time should i leave home? what about 10-7?

i was planning on hanging around malibu if i leave work at 5pm anyways to enjoy the nice area.

any advice would be appreciated.