Happy Mother's Day: Here's Your Check?! Salary.com Shows What Mom's Worth

salary.com

It's a website that helps people on both ends of the employee-employer relationship figure out what work is worth, money-wise.

What's special about the site today is the "Happy Mother's Day! - What is Mom's Work Worth?" calculator.

I ran through it (it's very fast - just two questions), and found that my wife was doing $64,374 to $174,061 worth of work each year, depending on what part of America we're looking at. Here in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, it's from $92,222 to $138,311 a year. That's funny, since this family has never had more than about a third of the lower number to work with.

Oh, well.

Theres a "Make a paycheck to email or print" option, and a checkoff list of what a stay-at-home mom does, in terms of hours per week.

Aside from being a sort of parlor game, I think this is a good way to remind ourselves of just what goes in to being a mom.