The Monetary Value of a Stay-Home Mother

Posted on May 11, 2007 by J. Benjamin Stevens

Mother's Day is this coming Sunday.  Most everyone appreciates their mom, but have you ever considered the monitary value of what she does?  Well fortunately, someone has...

The mom pay wizard calculator at Salary.Com determined that the typical stay at home mother works 40 hours at base pay and 52 hours overtime for a total of 92 hours a week.  Mothers perform ten jobs at home, namely:

  • cook
  • housekeeper
  • day care center teacher
  • laundry machine operator
  • van driver
  • facilities manager
  • janitor
  • computer operator
  • chief executive officer
  • psychologist
Salary.Com also says it would take $138,095 per year to buy those services if she did not perform them.  This Sunday, tell your mother how much you appreciate her, and be glad that she never sent you an invoice!

Source:  "How Much Is a Stay at Home Mom Worth?"  by James J. Gross, published at his Maryland Divorce Legal Crier.  Thanks also to Grant Griffiths of the Kansas Family & Divorce Lawyer blog for his post on this subject.

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