http://edition.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/worklif...ef=mpstoryemail


"Story Highlights
Study: Stay-at-home moms perform $117,000 worth of work per year

Moms with outside jobs would receive $68,405 for motherly tasks, study says

Stay-at-home moms report working 94.4 hours per week

"A lot of people think we sit and home and have a lot of fun," says mom of two.

BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- If a stay-at-home mom could be compensated in dollars rather than personal satisfaction and unconditional love, she'd rake in a nifty sum of nearly $117,000 a year.

That's according to a pre-Mother's Day study released in May by Salary.com, a Waltham, Massachusetts-based firm that studies workplace compensation.

The eighth annual survey calculated a mom's market value by studying pay levels for 10 job titles with duties that a typical mom performs, ranging from housekeeper and day care center teacher to van driver, psychologist and chief executive officer.

This year, the annual salary for a stay-at-home mom would be $116,805, while a working mom who also juggles an outside job would get $68,405 for her motherly duties.

One stay-at-home mom said the six-figure salary sounds a little low."

Surly joke alert, may be in bad taste, so read at your own risk:

"...Sorry sweety, we are downsizing...Here is two weeks severence pay. Your job is being outsourced to a woman from India who will do everything you do, doesnt need a retirement package, can sew all the kids clothing, is very happy with a 7 year old car, takes tech support calls for Microsoft while the kids are in school, and does it all for 27,500..."

Kidding...I kid...I just got through reading a report on the economy and the amount of jobs that went overseas...Oy. Anyway...

My mom's worth twice that much a year.




Hmm, now I need to find a way to have her stumble upon this...

If only they were paid for it. I know I'd want my mom to be paid for that. And she'd love it too. She'd pay off my step-dad's truck, then all of our cars would be paid for.

I'd take my kids' love and company, and the ability to help form two new, good people, over $117,000 any day.

I need that doubled and retroactive 17 years

Gas prices and inflation...