Stay-at-home mother's work worth $138,095 a year | |
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Wed May 2, 3:00 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - 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 on 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.
(Reporting by Ellen Wulfhorst)
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cook and psychologist among other roles, she would earn $138,095 a year, according to research released on Wednesday.
| This is just nonsense, the lives of stay-at-home mothers has become drastically easier thanks to technological inventions by MEN who've made household chores a lot easier. It's not so hard to drop kids at school in the morning and pick them up in the afternoon either.
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A mother's work is worth whatever I must pay to someone to replace her.
housekeeper - 30 minutes to an hour a day at near minimum wage.
cook - AKA microwave operator (button pushing, you're welcome)
day care center teacher - Sorry, day care centers watch OTHER PEOPLE's kids.
laundry machine operator - Button pushing. Again, you're welcome
van driver - To soccer practice and back? A cab charges around 8 bucks.
facilities manager, janitor - Same job, one has a fancier name.
computer operator - Women do not work on computers, they play on them. Scratch this one off.
chief executive officer - Nobody holds stock in you, honey, get over yourself. Scrach.
psychologist - This is an insult to the field of psychology. Women are in no way qualified to practice and are more in need of this service than they could ever provide to someone else. Silly me, for thinking a woman I buy a house for should have to listen to how my day went for free.
Save for the last three rectally extracted professions, the rest fetch around $8.50 an hour. If a woman has to spend 92 hours a week (or even 40) doing these things, she must not be very good at them. How long does it take to dump laundry in a washer and push a button, or are we counting the time our "laundry machine operator" is watching Oprah as the machine runs? Let's for argument's sake say that a given housewife is actually engaged in one of these activities for 5 hours a day, 7 days a week. At $8.50 an hour, that's....
$14,560 a year. 
It's not about what's faayyyyyuuurrrrrr, it's about what you can get. Even without turning to illegal labor, a man can hire a maid, a babysitter, order takeout and find a laundry service for way less than $134K. Women don't get to say what they're worth, we do.
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3rd-May-2007
