According to a new study, the average SAHM works 94.4 hours per week, which makes it the equivalant of two full time jobs.
For 2008, Salary.com determined that the time mothers spend performing the 10 most popular “Mom job functions” would equate to an annual cash compensation of $116,805 for a Stay-at-Home Mom and $68,405 for a Working Mom, down from last years calculations of $138,094 and $85,938.
Don’t you wish there was actually a paycheck that came at the end of the week? I know exactly what I would do with it -hire someone to do all the annoying jobs I don’t want to do.
What does this mean if you are also working from home while taking care of your children and the house? Other than you are burning the candle at both ends? Salary.com fails to address this huge segment of mothers.
Forget the raise…I just want time off when I’m sick!
Comment by Solinox — October 3, 2008 @ 9:11 am
Does this include all the time I put in when we are on “vacation”? Also, I think the Labor board needs to be notified of the 15 minute breaks and lunch hour we are not getting on a daily basis.
UNION UNION
Comment by SoMo — October 3, 2008 @ 9:07 pm
And this does not include mileage pay for driving them to and from school,school outings, church functions, picking up friends, takin friends home, shopping, and all the myriad of other “chaffeur” type things we do. Or the list that your husband gives you, because you just sit around all day with nothing to do, so you should have plenty of time to complete his list of requests that have to be done “today”,but that he has been putting off for months. lol
Best Wishes and good tennis shoes to all the moms
Comment by Beverly — October 11, 2008 @ 2:09 am
A man comes home from work one evening to find his house in a total disray. The teenagers are sitting on the sofa with several bags of chips, soda cans, shoes and coats everywhere. The younger kids have ALL the games out on the floor. Walking further into the house, he sees the kitchen is cluttered with breakfast and lunch dishes. There’s kool-aid splattered on the floor. And the dog or his wife is no where in sight.
Walking upstairs, he stepped over baskets of laundry. He found his wife laying in bed with a book. He nearly roared, “What is going on here?”
Calmly putting her book down, she said “Know how you ask me each night what I did all day? Well, I decided not to do it today!!”
author unknown, but surely written by a mom!!
Comment by Vanessa — October 14, 2008 @ 4:10 pm
I can most definitely appreciate the scene as described above, from both angles. Both myself and my wife work full time and go to school full time as well, as well as do our best to raise our three children, who do thier best to insure that I get more and more gray hairs in my beard. My point being, is that while the situation is VERY frustrating, I feel it is important for each parent to remember that sometimes the other needs a break too. Both my wife and I do our housekeeping together, and when a break is needed we take those together too. In this way, while there might be a mess in the house from time to time, there is little or no mess in our relationship, we don’t resent it when the other needs a much needed break. So just as an idea, that we sometimes use is to make “break” coupons to be redeemed when needed most by the other parent.
Comment by Will — October 14, 2008 @ 10:37 pm
Love the scene describe above, I should do it more often. How good it will be to be the one going out for work at least they have set times. Being a stay at home mom you work all day, it never stops and the amazing thing is that no one sees what you do. As mentioned above, it is only when you don’t do it that other realize what you are actually doing, for free on top of it! Not getting the pay is one thing, but at least we should get some credit and consideration!
Comment by Nathalie — October 17, 2008 @ 5:01 pm
Does this include to a Stay-at-Home Mom of 2yo triplets. No vacations and no sick days.
Comment by Proud triplets' mom. — June 23, 2009 @ 4:45 pm
I would get a raise .I got kids at home to raise and if they see ,I have to multitask.And more importantly women with a bun in the oven like me.For this we should get recognition and credit.
Comment by Ma of 2 and little buns in the oven — June 26, 2009 @ 3:45 pm
P.s if u want to know im 7 months
Comment by Ma of 2 and little buns in the oven — June 26, 2009 @ 3:45 pm