Strollerderby
Someone Owes Moms $117K
According to a “study” released by salary.com, stay-at-home moms would make close to $117,000 a year if they were compensated for their work. That figure was calculated based on the salaries of 10 jobs — including housekeeper and CEO — whose duties share something in common with motherhood.
Working moms, on the other hand, only earn $68,405 for their kid-rearing efforts. Because, you know, they’re just mothering “part-time.” These figures are slightly higher than the ones quoted in Brett’s recent blog post about New York moms, who apparently are only worth $70K per year even when they’re working the maternal shift full-time. (Don’t they know how high the cost-of-living is in New York? Momma needs to pay the rent and buy a new pair of shoes, you know.)
It’s fun to speculate about how much money each of us could earn if only we got paid for running a family.But it’s also a depressing reminder that women in general, whether they are mothers or not, still aren’t compensated at the same level as most men. And as a society, our attitude toward ambitious women is still pretty conflicted. (No, I’m not referring to Hillary Clinton, overtly or covertly, with these comments. But someone will probably assume I am, so whatev.)
It would be nice if SAHMs, working moms or even working women period actually were paid the money they deserve. Until that day comes, well, we always have another survey from salary.com to look forward to. Next time, I’d like them to look into how much money moms deserve to spend on their non-existent corporate credit cards. I think we have another pretend-$10 Grand coming our way.
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3 Comments
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amI agree.. why do we have to read these posts everytime someone does one of these studies?
And while I agree that women are undercompensated at work, I find it a leap to link this study to a “reminder that women in general…still aren’t compensated at the same level as most men”
If anything, women are compensated at exactly the same level as men for their work cleaning and taking care of the kids. I know that when I clean the house, or take care of the kids, I get paid exactly $0 for it…
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amSo who’s going to be paying the moms this money? It better not be coming from my tax dollars.
Treespeed commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amNot this again. What a completely made up issue. Does that mean I should bill my wife when I change her oil or do any handiwork around the house?
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