[Cecily]

"A full-time stay-at-home mother would earn $134,121 a year if paid for all her work ...."


Prove it. Let's see some women pull down that salary doing all those tasks for someone. If I could earn that much money for doing the work described, I would change job in a heartbeat.

[MEGoody]

Let's see some women pull down that salary doing all those tasks for someone.

I would never want to say anything to put down stay at home moms. They have the most important job in the world. But I suspect this was 'priced' out at the high end of everything, e.g. a master chef instead of a short-order cook.

[Element187]

Prove it. Let's see some women pull down that salary doing all those tasks for someone. If I could earn that much money for doing the work described, I would change job in a heartbeat.

bingo... this story is trash... people making less than 100k a year would leave their jobs to become "housewives"

[Scotswife]

"Prove it. Let's see some women pull down that salary doing all those tasks for someone. If I could earn that much money for doing the work described, I would change job in a heartbeat."

Well...I know a wealthy man who pays more than this to his personal staff. 2 nannies, a cook, a housekeeper, private secretary, and gardener.
Of course - one person cannot possibly do all these jobs as well as a team of people concentrating on their own given area, and one women may do the job extremely well...while another woman may not.

My guess is it's more likely to be in the 50-60k range if a wealthy person were to hire one person to do the job.