New Study Says Stay at Home Mom's "Worth" Almost 140K

With Mother 's Day just around the corner, a new study shows some very interesting facts about stay at home mothers and mothers who work out of the home.

The new study/online survey conducted by Salary.com took the responses from 26,000 stay at home moms, and 14,000 moms that work out of the home to comprise a new look of what mothers would earn if they were paid for all that they do.

The survey gave stay at home moms and mothers that work out of the home a pay increase from last year at the rate of 3%. Last year the same study came to the conclusion that Mothers would make an average of $134,121 a year for all that they do. This year with the "pay increase" Mothers should according to the survey make an average of $138,095 a year for the work they put into a household, and family. A Mother who works out of the home had an additional $85,939 added to the $138,095. That is if she holds down a full time job on top of her at home duties. Which means that a Mother who works full time outside of the home should on average be making $224,034 a year!

The study considers the following for the above-mentioned earnings. The main aspects are housekeeper, cook, day care center teacher, laundry machine operator, van driver, facilities manager, janitor, computer operator, chief executive officer and psychologist. The numbers are based on the average Mom putting in 92 hours a week. That is a 40 an hour a week pay with time and a half for the 52 hours overtime.

I am sure some stay at homers, and some mothers that work out of the home would say that the amount of $138,095 a year would not even come close to covering what they do. If you add in full time nurse, part time doctor, banker, along with many others then the average of $138,095 a year would increase dramatically. Even the amount of $224,034 a year with the increase of $85,939 a year for a mother that works outside of the home is not even getting it close.