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What's Mom Worth? It's More Than You Think!

Housekeeper

Keeping the home front clean, comfortable, and healthy for its inhabitants should be worth a heck of a lot more than $9.86 an hour. Whether mom is removing constant smears of sticky fingerprints, picking clothes up as fast as they are dropped, or ensuring the bathrooms are eat-off-the-floor clean, this is one job that’s never done.

Annual Salary: $20,500
Hourly Pay: $9.86
Stay-at-Home Mom: 15.4 hrs/wk
Job Rank: 1, 8.8% of pay
Working Mom: 8 hrs/wk
Job Rank: 1, 7.4% of pay

 

  • Dawn Dugan

    Dawn Dugan specializes in writing books, articles, white papers, reports and special communications for the human resources industry. She is the co-author of Effective Executive Compensation, which was published by AMACOM in 2008. Read more...