My Salary

The price of a mom: $138,095
A new report assigns a salary to a
stay-at-home mother, based on the jobs she does in a normal week.

What's a mom worth?
According to one new report, $138,095 a
year.
That's the figure in a report by Salary.com, which calculates the wages
that would have been paid a stay-at-home mom in 2007 if she were compensated for
all the elements of her "job." That total is up 3% from 2006's salary of
$134,121.

Moms who have jobs outside the house would earn another $85,939 for
their mothering work, beyond what they bring home in existing salary.

The
job descriptions that Salary.com used to determine a mom's salary includes 10
jobs that moms do on an average day: housekeeper, day care center teacher, cook,
computer operator, laundry machine operator, janitor, facilities manager, van
driver, CEO and psychologist.
Plenty of overtime In calculating a mom's
wages, Salary.com looked at the "overtime" that both working and stay-at-home
moms put in each week.

"Mom works multiple jobs and rarely gets a break from the action,
working an average of 52
hours of overtime," said Bill Coleman, senior vice president at Salary.com,
in a statement.

According to the Salary.com survey, stay-at-home moms work a 92-hour
week, with more than half the workweek spent in overtime.

Working moms, meanwhile, logged more than nine hours of "overtime,"
with an average 49-hour "mom" work week -- on top of their full-time paying
jobs.
For the Salary.com survey, more than 40,000 moms quantified their hours
per job description; Salary.com benchmarked the median salaries for each job to
the national median salary for each position as reported by employers.
The
final salary was calculated by weighting the salaries and hours worked in each
role.

Wow, no wonder I am tired all the time. Add on another 15 hours at Telus per week, hell, I'll be a millionaire in NO time!