Many would say a stay at home mom's job is priceless, but if you had to put a number to it how much would mom's salary be?
According to a recent study by Salary.com it is projected that a stay at home mom would earn about $143,102 per year. It is true that the care and love from a mother is priceless and the overtime is often overlooked. There really is no way to put a price on being a mother, but Salary.com estimated the daily job duties performed by a stay at home mom and was able to construct a typical mom's salary. How did they come up with this number? Salary.com separated the tasks and roles into two specific categories. The first being a more traditional mom's roles and then a modern mom's roles. A traditional mom generally performs tasks such as facilities manager, computer operator, janitor, personal driver, launderer, event planner/coordinator, interior designer, nutritionist, chef, plumber, nurse, psychologist, and last but certainly not least chief executive officer.
The modern mom performs all of the roles as a traditional mom in addition to athletic trainer, coach, tax accountant, teacher, education role model, social media manager, photographer, judge, and therapist. For a 40 hour week the base salary was exactly $48,509. However, the overtime of an additional 52 hours per week adds up to be a total of $94,593. If you combine the two, you get a whopping $143,102.
Salary.com based the numbers off of a national average and then the average amount of time taken to complete the tasks stated above.
We understand that this article singles out women only, but we do want to recognize all of the hardworking stay at home dads too! Since National Women's Day falls in March, we thought it was appropriate to recognize all of the hard-working mamas!
It's not easy raising children, keeping up the home, and doing all those special little things that hold your family together, and we want to appreciate you for everything you do!
