Mom's Salary

Mother's day was yesterday but let us do not stop being grateful to mom.

According to a recent study by Salary.com, if stay-at-home moms had
received a salary for their work, they would have earned an estimated
$131,471 per year.

We must appreciate that being a mom is probably the toughest and most
responsible job of all. Long hours, a multitude of job skills and tasks, no
days off. Moms are still on the clock even on sick or vacation days - right
there to provide us very reliable service which sometimes we just forget
to acknowledge.

Salary.com uses figures from human resources departments to analyze
average salaries, bonuses and benefits by job field, position, experience
level and geographic location. The study took into consideration the
average salaries of people who do some mom duties full-time:
day-care center teacher ($26,891), van driver ($30,762), housekeeper
($18,750), cook ($31,099), chief executive officer or CEO ($612,623),
nurse($56,113) and general maintenance worker ($29,656).

Considering that mom spends about four hours a week as the family CEO,
she'd earn anestimated $32,673 per year for that "job" alone. Working as
the family daycare for about 72 hours a week, she'd earn an estimated
$48,403 per year - including overtime. Moms would receive a base pay of
$43,461 for 40-hour weeks, and a walloping total of $88,009 in overtime
for the additional 60 hours spent performing various mom duties!

So, next time when some of non-Moms like us grudge about salary at
work, we must at least remember the service-with-a-smile that our
Moms continue to provide without any demand.