What would a stay-at-home mom make, if she was paid?

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I know there's a few of us out there, although I don't know if other stay-at-home moms look at this forum.

According to this article ( http://www.salary.com/careers/layoutscr ... art=Par358 ), the salary would be over $131,000.

I would agree with that figure. Stay-At-Home mothers are the managers and CEOs of families.

you can't pay someone enough to do that job the way it should be done. that's why you stay at home, no?

No they don't get paid. Their wage is priceless.

I agree!!

i was going to say "not enough", but i think "priceless" is better (although that shouldn't obviate the necessity for mums to be paid...)

That brings up something else I was wondering about. Is anyone here have Asperger's and is a mom who homeschools her children?

Figure daycare at the rate in your community. Usually $3/hr/child (but depends a lot on location) Only 8 hours for the day though since you'd have to come home and be a parent anyway if you worked. Same reasoning for weekends.

Add the cost of Home cleaning (of the time actually spent cleaning)

Say, $20/hr 2 hr/day

So for a week:

for 2 kids

3 x 3 x 40
2 x 20 x 5

Figure 720/wk before taxes... maybe $500 take home per week. about 38k/yr

You can't claim it is worth more that it would cost you to pay someone else to do it. Just basic economics.

--Chris

True, but unfortunately many women are virtually "forced" out into the workforce because one wage isn't enough to pay off the mortgage and living expenses. I blame the skyrocketing cost of housing on much of this!

As for what wage a mother at home would be worth, I don't know but it would be a lot. After all, they are multi-skilled to the max; being at any given time a nurse or counsellor or teacher or cleaner or gardener or laundress or seamstress or any one of dozens of other jobs. How many paid jobs would expect the same amount of flexibility and dedication?