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What is a mother's work really worth?

Dory Devlin is the Work+Money editor on Yahoo! Shine. Check out Shine Work+Money here.

We are definitely a vacationless class. All of the vacations that I have ever taken have been with my kids! I would add the following job titles: gardener, scientist (when it comes to those extreme science projects!), photographer and referee!

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Flag as inappropriate Posted by SavingQueen.com on 14th May 2009
The salary estimate is vastly inflated by including 7.2 hours of psychologist and 5.5 hours of CEO time. If you take those two items out, the salary is closer to $85,000. 8.6 hours of facilities manager is a stretch as well, and using both housekeeper and janitor seems to me to be double counting (I really don't think the average house needs 23.7 hours of housekeeper/janitor per week!) 7.2 hours of laundry machine operator -- who really spends an hour every day doing laundry? I plugged my own time estimates in and came up with a salary of $65,000.

Flag as inappropriate Posted by SoftwareMom on 13th May 2009