This morning on a local radio station they gave the stats for how much a stay at home mom would be making if she got paid for all the jobs she actually did. I perked up and listened, as I thought this might be nice to tease Dev with. So they said that the average mom would be making a whopping 122,000 a year! Awesome! Where is that money? Maybe I spent it at Costco buying diapers, Target buying clothes..for my child, and Micheals last year buying crafts haha, no seriously though… How sweet would that be?!
After listening to the radio I decided to look up the article this was from and came across some fun stuff. An article from Strollerderby Parenting Blog said,
“And now to show all you stay-at-home full-timers how much I think you’re worth, a little math from Salary.com. In the “real” world, you’d be raking in six figures. ”
“Based on ten daily functions described by a survey of some twelve thousand stay-at-home moms, the average stay-at-homer should be earning $122,732 a year. In other words – that’s what they’d be paying someone else to do all of those duties.”
Futher down it showed some of those jobs:
“The Salary.com survey goes on to list eight other occupations filled by a stay-at-home parent, including “housekeeper, computer operator, facilities manager, van driver, psychologist, laundry machine operator, janitor and chief executive officer.”"
Still amused I clicked over to Salary.com to find “The Mom Salary Wizard” Awesome!! So I took this little survey and guess how much I am worth. Check it out
Yeah 72,835! Yes Please, I will take it! Hahaha… They even wrote me a check and e-mailed it to me.
Too bad I can’t cash it. Anyway if you want to see how much you are worth (even though, working or not you are priceless 
) check out at:
http://swz.salary.com/momsalarywizard/layoutscripts/mswl_newsearch.asp
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That is probably the coolest thing ever. I need on of those checks to frame. I’ll put it in my room for those days when I don’t feel like what I do is enough…
I would make over 90,000. That just makes me sad. Sigh. If only, right?
That was fun – thanks for sharing!
Nice! You know, I actually paid somebody to pick the boys up from school, take them to boyscouts, jiu jitsu, and music lessons when I was working. She was expensive! I still had to do all the cooking, cleaning, laundry and w/e else. Bleh! Even though we do a lot, its so much better staying home with our little monsters, isn’t it?
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