If you stay home with your kids, you're in a six figure salary job.
Have you heard the good news? We’re successful! Finally getting the kudos we deserve! Earning the big bucks!
Too bad we’ll never see a penny of it.
Stay-at-home parents are worth $138,095 annually, based on our average 92-hour work week and the median national average for the multitude of jobs we perform, according to a new study from Salary.com.
The web-based company surveyed 40,000 stay-at-home mothers and came up with the earnings for 10 jobs they do in a typical work week: housekeeper, day care center teacher, cook, computer operator, laundry machine operator, janitor, facilities manager, van driver, CEO and psychologist.
I’ve been telling my husband for years that it would be costly to replace me. Costly and in some ways impossible. Like the survey says, you can pay someone to baby-sit, clean, cook, do laundry and even drive your kids around.
But what would you have to shell out for someone to haul 15 Gatorades and a big Tupperware container full of oranges to the soccer game? Or drop everything and rush to the mall for an emergency black skirt purchase for a band concert? To bake birthday cakes, decorate goody bags for the entire preschool, or orchestrate a dream-come-true Christmas on a budget?
Some things just don’t have a price tag.
And while we stay-at-homers may not get paid what we’re worth, it sure is nice to see those six figures. Makes me feel like I've finally arrived at the prestigious position I've always wanted.
I'd love to stay and talk more about it, but I have to run to the store now. I have a power lunch this afternoon and we’re out of peanut butter.
