Litigation

STAY AT HOME MOM'S "SALARY"

By Mark P. Loftus, Esq.

Back from vacation, lots to catch up on...

Salary.Com just released its annual study regarding the market value of a stay at home mom. Every year this group gets together and evaluates precisely what mom is worth, by looking at pay levels for the various jobs a mother may do during a given week, like housekeeping, child-care, van driver and teacher. This year, the number they came up with? $116,805. The biggest factor in the number is the amount of overtime hours that a mom may work during the week. 18,000 moms were surveyed and the average number of hours worked per week was 94.4 hours, or just over 13 hours a day.

Full post as published by Illinois Lawyer Blog on August 14, 2008 (boomark / email).