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Stay-At-Home Moms are, Not Surprisingly, Underpaid

By David B. Bohl | May 3, 2007 | 2 Responses

 

clipped from news.yahoo.com

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.

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2 Responses to “Stay-At-Home Moms are, Not Surprisingly, Underpaid”

  1. Kathie Thomas Says:
    May 6th, 2007 at 12:34 am

    I’m a stay at home mum, but classed as a wahm - I work at home. In other words I do work other than housework and get paid for it. Best decision I ever made. I’ve brought up a family of 5 daughters and looked after our household in the process. But, I don’t know how I would have managed if I didn’t have that income, coming in - my husband certainly wouldn’t be able to pay me a wage and look after the family financially too.

  2. Adrienne Says:
    June 1st, 2007 at 2:14 pm

    I think you forgot EMT and in our case, Veterinarian, and Dog Groomer!

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