If Your a Stay-At-Home Mom How Much Are You Worth?
Stay-at-home mom’s work worth $138,095
Annual amount she’d earn as a housekeeper, cook and psychologist
Stay-at-home moms are worth six figuresMay 3: If a stay-at-home mother in the United States were paid for her work, she would earn $138,095. MSNBC's Dara Brown reports.
May 3, 2007
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NEW YORK - If the typical stay-at-home mother in the United States were paid for her work as a housekeeper, cook and psychologist among other roles, she would earn $138,095 a year, according to research released Wednesday.
This reflected a 3 percent raise from last year’s $134,121, according to Salary.com Inc , Waltham, Massachusetts-based compensation experts.
The 10 jobs listed as comprising a mother’s work were housekeeper, cook, day care center teacher, laundry machine operator, van driver, facilities manager, janitor, computer operator, chief executive officer and psychologist, it said.
The typical mother puts in a 92-hour work week, it said, working 40 hours at base pay and 52 hours overtime.
A mother who holds full-time job outside the home would earn an additional $85,939 for the work she does at home, Salary.com.
Last year she would have earned $85,876 for her at-home work, it said.
Salary.com compiled the online responses of 26,000 stay-at-home mothers and 14,000 mothers who also work outside the home.
Annual amount she’d earn as a housekeeper, cook and psychologist
Stay-at-home moms are worth six figuresMay 3, 2007
Video
NEW YORK - If the typical stay-at-home mother in the United States were paid for her work as a housekeeper, cook and psychologist among other roles, she would earn $138,095 a year, according to research released Wednesday.
This reflected a 3 percent raise from last year’s $134,121, according to Salary.com Inc , Waltham, Massachusetts-based compensation experts.
The 10 jobs listed as comprising a mother’s work were housekeeper, cook, day care center teacher, laundry machine operator, van driver, facilities manager, janitor, computer operator, chief executive officer and psychologist, it said.
The typical mother puts in a 92-hour work week, it said, working 40 hours at base pay and 52 hours overtime.
A mother who holds full-time job outside the home would earn an additional $85,939 for the work she does at home, Salary.com.
Last year she would have earned $85,876 for her at-home work, it said.
Salary.com compiled the online responses of 26,000 stay-at-home mothers and 14,000 mothers who also work outside the home.
Labels: Human Interest
posted by HRM Deborah of Israel and the Messenger of Peace at 5:00 PM
2 Comments:
Assalamu alaikum,
Americans put a value onto something depending on how much money it produces, and i hope that they won't start saying that stay-at-home-mom is good considering the high "salary." They are completely missing the point of raising children properly.
Waalaikumu salam Mariam,
What originally brought this article to mind, was many years ago now my mother out of curiosity with the legal beginning wage in America figured out how much time she spent per year taking care of all of us. He conclusion wad if my father had to pay her he could afford her and I say this with humor and nothing more.
I think most husbands and I was teasing my husband when I read this article that no man could afford to get married if this is what they had to do, pay a wage. Also, I thought of the implications of all the things a wife and mother actually does and if you went to University to learn all these skills you would be there probably forever.
One thing that use to be taught and I hope still is inshaallah that being a wife and a mother is the most honored life that they could choose and for that it is priceless.
If women think because they get married and have a family and should be paid for it with money they are being silly actually in my opinion. Being a wife and a mother myself, for my daughter or son to say they love me is worth more then all the gold on earth.
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