We all know that being a mother is a demanding, well, JOB. So, naturally, the question has been put forward: what would we mothers get paid if we were to be monetarily compensated for being a mom?

Salary.com recently came up with a pseudo job analysis and price salary for the work both stay-at-home moms and working moms in their time off do. You, too, can go to www.mom.salary.com, plug in the number of children you have and voila! The “Mom Salary Wizard” will tell you what you could be earning if you were being compensated monetarily for your hard, mommy work. According to the website’s experts: if paid, stay-at-home moms would receive $134,121 a year and working moms would receive $85, 876 in addition to their non-mom labor.

I’m sorry, what? Money for moms? It’s interesting, to say the least, but what does this new information do for the overworked and under – I mean, not – paid mother? According to the website this information provides moms and their families with the opportunity to create a “mom paycheck.” There is even the on-site option of creating a mom paycheck and pay stub that can be printed and/or e-mailed to moms. Hmm... is this the IOU marital and children system?

A cute joke at best, a painful belittlement at worst. What mom would really like a fake paycheck in the form of an e-mail printout? I’m not actually getting paid to be mom 24/7! And no offense, but while the study takes into account the different jobs inherent within the overall mom role (including housekeeper, cook, chauffeur and psychologist), it has no built in compensaton for: lack of sleep, seniority (I mean, we’re moms for life, right?), travel (weekend long road trips to soccer tournaments sound familiar?), on-the-job injuries, time away from friends, relinquishing the remote control… the list goes on and on. See, this is the problem with the “Mom Salary Wizard”; you can’t put a price on being a mom!

On one hand, Salary.com is making the obvious point that yes, we moms do work extraordinarily hard and no, we are not paid financially to do so by society.

Of course, if the federal government would like to actually pay us, I am sure we would all be interested!

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