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5/02/2011 @ 4:18PM |19,054 views
Why Stay-At-Home Moms Should Earn A $115,000 Salary
Think you can’t put a price onmotherhood? According to a new survey by Salary.com, a division of human resources consultant Kenexa, moms should be charging $115,000 per year for their work.
In the tenth annual Mom Salary Survey, researchers examined 6,616 mothers and attempted to value their work by breaking down motherly duties into 10 separate titles: Day Care Center Teacher, CEO,Psychologist, Cook, Housekeeper, Laundry Machine Operator, Computer Operator, Facilities Manager, Janitor and Van Driver.
Call it continuing fallout from the global recession, but in 2011 stay-at-home moms’ estimated wages dropped. This year, results indicate that stay-at-homemoms would earn a base salary of $36,968 plus $78,464 in overtime, totaling $115,432–down $2,424 from last year’s estimation of $117,856. Meanwhile, moms that work outside the home earned a “mom” base salary of $39,763 plus $23,709 in overtime, adding $63,472 on top of their day jobs.
“We see [Mom] as the compilation of 10 jobs in one person,” said Evilee Ebb, general manager of Salary.com. “The breadth of Mom’s responsibilities is beyond what most workers could ever experience day-to-day. Imagine if you had to attract and retain a candidate to fill this role?”
According to the survey, the typical stay-at-home mom works almost 97 hours a week, spending 13.2 hours as a day-care teacher; 3.9 hours as household CEO; 7.6 hours as a psychologist; 14.1 hours as a chef; 15.4 as a housekeeper; 6.6 hours doing laundry; 9.5 hours as a PC-or-Mac operator; 10.7 hours as a facilities manager; 7.8 hours as a janitor and 7.8 hours driving the familyChevy.
Salary.com aimed to market price Mom in the same manner it prices a job. For 10 titles, a nearly 100-hour work-week and a six-figure annual rate, moms may be the most valuable workers in the country.
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