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Stay-at-home mom’s work worth $138,095
Annual amount she’d earn as a housekeeper, cook and psychologist
Reuters
Updated: 10:34 a.m. CT May 3, 2007
NEW YORK - 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 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.
Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or
redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the
prior written consent of Reuters.
URL: msnbc. msn.com/id/ 18466753/
Stay-at-home mom’s work worth $138,095
Annual amount she’d earn as a housekeeper, cook and psychologist
Reuters
Updated: 10:34 a.m. CT May 3, 2007
NEW YORK - 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 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.
Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or
redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the
prior written consent of Reuters.
URL: msnbc. msn.com/id/ 18466753/
