If a stay-at-home mom could be compensated in dollars rather than personal satisfaction and unconditional love, she'd rake in a nifty sum of nearly $117,000 a year.

HaHa!!!

I more interested in how a failed banker is worth $50 million a year.

Isn't the best way to estimate the work of a mom to see what live-in-nanny's make?

Shiat. By that sort of criteria, I should get at least $60K per year just for getting out of bed, taking a shiat, and showering ;)

Oh, and cleaning my glasses daily should be worth at least $55K ;)

Do they just recycle the same article every year for Mothers Day adjust for inflation?

"This year's study that says moms' work is work"

FAIL

unconditional love

Get a puppy.

Right. That's why maids rake in the big bucks.

I'm sleeping with my boss.

SpinStopper: Oh, and cleaning my glasses daily should be worth at least $55K ;)

what about bonus from watching the view and oprah all day?

What's a fair hourly rate for sitting in a chair and watching QVC and Dr. Phil all day?

As a divorced man, let me say that taking care of my kids is difficult stuff. But they provide me a shiat load more job satisfaction and out and out joy than I have ever gotten from work.

Near as I can tell, women that get to stay home with their kids owe their husbands money, not the other way around.

I would gladly quit work if it meant I could stay home with the kids. Who do I have to blow to make this happen?

Well then working moms are worth that plus the salary they make at real work.

/I guess this article is definitive proof that husbands never help around the house.

As long as those overtime hours are categorized under the fellatio category, I say pay them this amount.

Does the sex involved included in the pay?

Damn. I must be working the wrong job.

Cleaning your own house is not something just mothers do.

Well, if you have the money to pay your stay at home spouse 100g, then you have the money contract her job out to third party that comes with benefits.

This world runs on the unpaid labor of women. $100K seems a bit inflated, though.

Pretty much what Damnyankees said

It's called a blow JOB to make them feel like they're working.......

karendotcom: This world runs on the unpaid labor of women. $100K seems a bit inflated, though.

If you work for yourself, you're unpaid. What a miraculous concept.

I have to insist that I had the best mother who ever lived, but to be brutally honest, her cooking was worth something less than minimum wage.

Moms work hard--no doubt about that. But has anyone figured out what a Dad's wages should be? I mean, they put 50 hours plus in at work, then do yardwork, home repair, childcare, and misc. other chargeable duties. What does that add up to?

Kinda like the question "How many licks does it take...". The world may never know.

Does she cost more than the Twelve Days of Christmas presents cost?

/tired of these chestnuts.

I have a full-time job and manage to clean my place, do laundry and cook food occasionally. Do I owe me more than I make a year? 'cause that would suck.

Are moms taxable?

Great, now stay at home moms will be taxed as though they earned this much money.

Greatest thread evar!

/Hopefully the mom's aren't reading this.
//They shouldn't unless they have a computer in their kitchen.
///Ducking!

Am I missing something here? Is there someone going around and forcing people to have children?

Why do these women-children think that they should be paid for everything they do?

DamnYankees: Isn't the best way to estimate the work of a mom to see what live-in-nanny's make?

you win

I'm never surprised at the fratboy attitude blatantly on display here towards women. After a few years on FARK, it loses its "charm". The fratboys will never have to live in this world as women, so their opinions are bullshiat and just something to fill their empty days between beer parties.

If you've gotten this far in life, thank a woman.

Washing dishes before putting them in the dishwasher*: $3.50 an hour
Shopping: $15.00 an hour
Living with my father without killing him: Priceless.

*They learn not to do this eventually, if it's a decent dishwasher.

did this headline make anyone else's brain hurt?

/just sayin

PennyCentury: If you've gotten this far in life, thank a woman.

How about no. I'll thank whoever helped me, man or woman. Don't tell me my dad was any less important than anyone else.

This article is even more worthless than the usual articles they put out this time of year.

The other articles would at least name the occupation and time spent doing that work in the other studies. It was still BS paying an amateur a professional's wage, but at least it was open.

CEO?
Psychologist?
Chef?
High end hooker?

Yeah, I'm sure the average stay-at-home mother's skills command the pay of a professional.

PennyCentury: I'm never surprised at the fratboy attitude blatantly on display here towards women. After a few years on FARK, it loses its "charm". The fratboys will never have to live in this world as women, so their opinions are bullshiat and just something to fill their empty days between beer parties.

If you've gotten this far in life, thank a woman.

Your roast is burning.

100K for a job that is done by a $300 TV?

Fark: Misogynists and the women who love them.

"Oh look, a thread about women. I'll read it to confirm my beliefs that men are bad"

Actually, these days stay-at-home mom is usually the "status" thing. The ones that have spouses that can earn enough to make that possible. Sometimes, both people have to work outside the home.

Stay at home moms should consider themselves lucky, because with the rising costs it is getting more difficult to sustain a whole family on one income. (I'm not talking about the ones that have two incomes so they can buy designer handbags and sports cars, either - that's their own fault).

I'm wondering here. Is this supposed to:

A) Make families appreciate mothers more for the work they do by guilting them, just in time for mother's day?

B) Make unfulfilled, resentful women feel better because rather than being independent they're now indentured servants who have no individual income to show for any schooling they received and now live vapid lives of coupon collecting and setting play dates rather than business meetings?

C) Become an excuse for the IRS to levy greater taxes on people by showing that being a parent is simply " Domestic Labor" subject to income tax the way tips are? Because after all, nannies are laborers too...

DamnYankees: Isn't the best way to estimate the work of a mom to see what live-in-nanny's make? Damned straight.

Low end of the market:
http://www.gtmassociates.com/Nanny%20&%20Household%20Help%20Salary%20Informatio n .html

British nanny: $115,000 is about right for a fully experienced, reliable nanny, but try to get one to stay with you outside of a major city. Nobody's managed that since 1820. And he married her.

what they failed to mention was that's 100,000 vietnamese dongs. (yes, that's their currency.)

PennyCentury: I'm never surprised at the fratboy attitude blatantly on display here towards women. After a few years on FARK, it loses its "charm". The fratboys will never have to live in this world as women, so their opinions are bullshiat and just something to fill their empty days between beer parties.

If you've gotten this far in life, thank a woman.

Does your man know you're using his computer? Remember what happened last time...

Do they just recycle the same article every year for Mothers Day adjust for inflation?
"Sinister Steve"

Yes the media is so farking predictable and stupid. I am surprised they get paid at all for crap like this.

Lets see if I can quickly think up a few more. Hmm
School is starting so we need reports on how heavy their backpacks are. Taxes are do so lets do a story on the people filing close to midnight. Hmm a Storm is here so lets put some douchebag on location standing in the rain,snow,wind, whatever. Valentines day is here lets do a story on restaurants being full or the high cost of flowers compared to the rest of the year. There about 4 minutes of thought and I covered a bunch of news stories that always pop back up. farking r tards I hate them with a passion.

Claude Ballse: I'm wondering here. Is this supposed to:

A) Make families appreciate mothers more for the work they do by guilting them, just in time for mother's day?

B) Make unfulfilled, resentful women feel better because rather than being independent they're now indentured servants who have no individual income to show for any schooling they received and now live vapid lives of coupon collecting and setting play dates rather than business meetings?

C) Become an excuse for the IRS to levy greater taxes on people by showing that being a parent is simply " Domestic Labor" subject to income tax the way tips are? Because after all, nannies are laborers too...

As a divorced, working-mom, this article serves to make me think that I must be worth LESS then them since I am not home 24/7 to perform these job tasks that *earn* them this 117,000 per year.

/I just do it on my lunch hours and weekends.

DamnYankees: How about no. I'll thank whoever helped me, man or woman. Don't tell me my dad was any less important than anyone else.

THIS.

cerberus9: Why do these women-children think that they should be paid for everything they do?

The point isn't that women should be getting paid for everything they do, the point is that people -- specifically moms since tomorrow is mother's day -- do a lot of work that our society doesn't deem worthy of compensation (see other posts in this thread, as examples.)

It's easy to make jokes about stay-at-home wives watching TV all day, but in most cases that would be a ridiculous comparison -- most "at home" spouses do add value to the family, regardless of how many are in the family. In previous threads, we've heard from unemployed Farkers who stay home and do cooking and home maintenance and cleaning and their partner is at least for now supporting them. SAHMs are a huge segment of our society, and again, people disregard the value of what they do.

I'm not going to say "all moms are worth $100k" but yeah, most people contribute to their family's worth well beyond the W-2.

Sadly, men who are stay-at-home fathers must contend with a "glass ceiling" set by mothers who have dominated the stay-at-home market for thousands of years. Stay-at-home fathers are seldom trusted by the established mothers with important positions and responsibilities, and hardly ever socialize or allowed to socialize with stay-at-home mothers, who shun fathers for intruding on their primarily woman-dominated workplace. In addition, studies show that, given equal work, a stay-at-home father makes less than half the salary a stay-at-home mother would make, if staying at home were indeed a paying job.