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February 2011 Moms
Stay-at-home-mom salary
Just heard on TV that if SAHMs made a salary it would be around $115,000.
Do you think thats accurate?
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Re: Stay-at-home-mom salary
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I agree, where the hell do I find these checks?!
It depends on where you live if that's a fair amount. Here, $115,000 is a lot. But in places like CA, it's a normal amount (or so I'm told by my H who use to live there).
Agree, but I think $115,000 is fairly accurate. If you combined a personal Nanny, a Chef, a Cleaning Lady, Personal laundry person, shopper for groceries and errand running.....think about how much that is per hour? $115,000 might be low! Our cleaning lady is about $20 an hour probably..and that's only for actual CLEANING.
Sex should count for waaay more though. That alone after completing the above each day is worth at least half a mill $$$$$$$
$115,000 in my area = rich.
Who do I see about this position?
Me too!!!
m/c 12/25/09 (5w5d) mm/c D&C 4/9/10 (11w1d) Take home baby 2/22/11
My boobies belong to cour10e
Yep.
We WMs just get double the salary I guess.
Although I would gladly leave my job to stay at home with DD and pursue freelancing for a while.
This!
work full-time, means you aren't home full-time, so probably couldn't rake in on both. Good try!
-m/c at 11w2d due to partial molar 2008 -m/c #2 2009
Beautiful daughter born February 2011
**Ultimate TTCALer 2009**
Yup, I "volunteer" when I get home after work. Those SAHM salary things are so stupid. Being a WM or SAHM (who actually has kids to care for, not SAHMs whose kids are all in school) are both hard jobs; both have their rewards and challenges.
Well, aren't you special?
m/c 12/25/09 (5w5d) mm/c D&C 4/9/10 (11w1d) Take home baby 2/22/11
My boobies belong to cour10e
Oh come on. Perhaps I find it offensive that you don't think I do as much as you as a mom. Guess what? When your baby is napping for 4 hours out of the day and you're cleaning and cooking, I'm working. I clean and cook when I get home...you know, when you're sitting on your ass enjoying a (well-deserved) glass of wine and TV show.
You don't sound content; you sound defensive. Like you know what you're saying is BS.
I didn't say you don't do as much as I do as a SAHM, but realistically you can't...you aren't home. "Guess what!" When you are at work, someone else is watching your baby. When my baby is napping I am taking care of my other two kids, cooking, cleaning, playing,etc. I don't drink wine and don't get to sit down until after I get all 3 of my kids to bed, because I can't really get much done until my DH gets home, so then I get to cook, clean up, bath, bed, etc....same as you after work.
I am content in my decision as a SAHM, I don't appreciate when working moms claim to do both equally, because they can't. I have been a working mom and let me tell you being a SAHM is much harder than what I did.
Frankly we both work hard. I get that. Just don't claim to do both 100%.
I am in agreement with AAAAATeam! SAHMs and working moms lives are totally different and do not do the same thing entirely. Yes we care for our childen but being a SAHM means that is our full time job, we don't send our kids to daycare for 8 hours and so therefore we are a full time mom.
I hate the idea that SAHMs have it easy in the sense that all kids nap at the same time so we have a chunk of time to sit and watch soaps or sit down and have a glass of wine. If kids nap all the same time it is wonderful but even then you dont' get a break. I never stop until all kids are in bed after 8 and that is the only time I get a time to myself.
Working moms do a lot but they cannot claim to do the same because it's impossible when you are at work and other people are caring for your children. My husband had our kids just one day and at the end of the day he told me "Your job is way harder than mine." I had a working mom say that to me too. So don't claim you do your full time job and be a full time sahm too....not possible.