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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)
SAHM's have a 92 hour work week ? BTW that's over 13 hours a day . Damn , how much is a single parent that does the same stuff due ? Where's my check ?
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focusedon2
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[quote] SAHM's have a 92 hour work week ? BTW that's over 13 hours a day [/quote]
Is that hard to imagine. As a SAHM I was up before my kids and husband and didn't stop "working" until my kids went to bed at night.
I didn't get a break at 6 pm when my ex came home because he needed a breka since he had worked all day.
Knowing what I know now, if I had a chance to do it again, I would have dropped the kids off at a girlfriends house and spent the day doing my nails and playing tennis.
What would he do? Divorce me?
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...us to believe that from the minute you awaoke, to the minute the kids went to bed, you worked, non stop? Please...remember, some of us men have BEEN stay at home parents. Is it difficult? Sure. Is it 92 hours a week? No.
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Even at $138K I could not nor would I to that job, it just doesn't seem very appealling.
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I guess they figure it kind of like your boss does....
"Okay, he doesn't really work the WHOLE time he's here, but we have to have someone here in case something happens....so we gotta pay him for the full shift."
So maybe the OT should be recalculated as "on-call" time.
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[quote] Knowing what I know now, if I had a chance to do it again, I would have dropped the kids off at a girlfriends house and spent the day doing my nails and playing tennis.
What would he do? Divorce me? [/quote]
------------> LOL, that was good.
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JennyLynn
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I wonder what my paycheck would be for being a full time worker, and all the stuff SAHM's do!! Hell I'd be so rich I wouldn't need STBX's child support check!! haha.
A lot of people don't realize the work it DOES take to be a SAHP (mom or dad)...some people who haven't done it, or who don't have kids, seem to think it's a piece of cake. Honestly...I can say it would be MORE difficult to be a stay at home mom than to work out of the home, at least for me. I need the adult interaction. I think I would go insane. :)
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We've seen this argument before, and it's such bs.
Those $$$ amounts attributed to work are garbage. These SAHP's are not doing the job of professionals in those positions, and would not be compenstated accordingly. If I hire a Nanny or Live in, do they get paid at the level of a professional chef or nurse? Of course not, because they're not doing the job at that level, and neither are SAHP's.
Plus it's funny how these figure seem to negate the fact that when the working spouse comes home, it would presume that they do zero around the house or with the kids. It also negates attaching a $$$ value to what they do. So if I work my 12 hr shift, come home, mow the lawn, cook dinner and put a bandaid on SD's knne do I get to assign $$$ value of a professional landscaper, a chef and a nurse for carrying out those tasks? And if I'm the one cooking dinner, how does the SAHP get to take credit for that act?
Anyone with a semblance of brain matter can see these studies are complete garbage.
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JennyLynn
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<<Plus it's funny how these figure seem to negate the fact that when the working spouse comes home, it would presume that they do zero around the house or with the kids>>
Yeah well sometimes that IS the case. :) When I was with STBX, I worked full time, went to school part time, and did EVERYTHING around the house, and with the kids...well, STBX would go grocery shopping only so that he didn't have to stay home and do anything else...
Even so, cut the salary in half...it's still a lot more than a lot of people make. You can't dispute the fact that SAHP's do a hell of a lot, are underappreciated, and misunderstood. Completely.
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spinnerdegrassi
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Do all SAHP's do a lot? I'd dispute that in a second. Are there some who fit the image portrayed? Sure. But there are also plenty, who like my middle sister, have a husband who works out of the home, and when he comes home after work/before work, and weekends splits all the work accordingly with her. She's a SAHM for the 45 hrs a week he works, and then they are BOTH SAHP's equally for all the hours he is not at his job.
It comes down to choosing who you marry, and the quality of the individual in taking on that work.
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