Thursday, May 29, 2008

The Price of a Full Time Mom

For all the Mothers out there:
I came across this article a couple of days ago. Here are a full snipits that I thought were interesting.

"What's a mom worth? According to one new report, $138,095 a year. That's the figure in a report by Salary.com, which calculates the wages that would have been paid a stay-at-home mom in 2007 if she were compensated for all the elements of her 'job.' That total is up 3% from 2006's salary of $134,121.The job descriptions that Salary.com used to determine a mom's salary includes 10 jobs that moms do on an average day: housekeeper, day care center teacher, cook, computer operator, laundry machine operator, janitor, facilities manager, van driver, CEO and psychologist. In calculating a mom's wages, Salary.com looked at the "overtime" that both working and stay-at-home moms put in each week. 'Mom works multiple jobs and rarely gets a break from the action, working an average of 52 hours of overtime,' said Bill Coleman, senior vice president at Salary.com, in a statement.According to the Salary.com survey, stay-at-home moms work a 92-hour week, with more than half the workweek spent in overtime." (From MSN online)

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