We get personal satisfaction from raising our kids. But if we could put a dollar value to what we do, what would we be worth?
Salary.com, a Waltham, Mass.-based firm that studies workplace compensation, put a value to mothering in a study released Thursday.
For stay-at-home moms, her work would be valued at $116,805 a year. Working moms would pull in $68,405 on top of her regular job.
Arizona Moms Editor Yvette Armendariz shares stories about raising her kids and tips for busy parents in her Time-starved (goddess) Mom blog. She and her husband are raising two children, ages 8 and 11.
Now if that could only end
Now if that could only end up in our bank accounts some how!!
Lisa - Mom to her spunky little Scarlette
My husband and I did this a
My husband and I did this a while ago, gosh it must have been about 3 or 4 months ago.It is funny because he has a pretty good job and with the salary thing I ended up making about 79,000 more than him being a stay at home mom. It still makes me laugh.
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Humm...I don't know....Two
Humm...I don't know....Two of my friends are SAHMs and after dropping the kids at school, hit the gym together and then have lunch, three days a week. I hear them complain all the time that their husband's don't think that they clean enough and they complain back that they are "stay at home moms, not "stay at home maids"!
I wonder if the study counted the time that we working moms spent at lunch and frankly, at work, taking care of home! I run out twice each workday to pick up kids from school and take them to the sitters. Most SAHMs put their kids to bed at 7:30-8:00pm. Mine stay up til 9:00, because that's how long it takes to just get the kids stuff done. An awful lot of SAHMs seem to be very well versed in reality shows. I haven't watched TV in 9 yrs.
How did this post become
How did this post become SAHM vs. working mom? We are all valuable and under compensated for the hard, yet rewarding work that we do no matter what our working situation is. Let's not bash eachother or be self righteous about how much or little we do. It just isn't nice.
I'm not bashing anyone! I'm
I'm not bashing anyone! I'm commenting on the ARTICLE'S lower valuation of working moms, particularly in relation to calculating "man hours".
I find that calculation
I find that calculation questionable as well, especially since it was based on self reported data.
This quote from the article made me laugh.....does she think that it's any easier for a working mom to come home and clean her house AFTER doing another full time job? Are the kids not around doing the same thing? LMAO
"I think a lot of people think we sit and home and have a lot of fun and don't do a lot of work," said Samantha Russell, a Fremont, N.H., mother who left her job as pastry chef to raise two boys, ages 2 and 4. "But they should try cleaning their house with little kids running around and messing it up right after them."
And this - well, I really question these figures, I doubt that these moms actually spent 95 solid hours a week working. I just don't buy it. Even if that includes weekends, that's 13 hours a day....come, on - give me a break!
"The biggest driver of a mom's theoretical salary is the amount of overtime pay she'd receive for working more than 40 hours a week. The 18,000 moms surveyed about their typical week reported working 94.4 hours - meaning they'd be spending more than half their working hours on overtime."
My boss who is the owner,
My boss who is the owner, gives his wife a paycheck each week, that she earns being a SAHM.Not sure what the rate is..
I am sure it is more then what I make....but I am glad he cares..