http://clipmarks.com/clipper/jatfla/date/2008/5/9/http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/jatfla/date/2008/5/9/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/3A08E4E5-FFBC-48A0-8B76-7D55EE587700/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/jatfla/">jatfla</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> Amazing to see what the world spends $$ on. I don't know if I'd call myself a "chief executive officer"; that sounds a little exalted. :~) What's missing is the care for elderly family members which is becoming an additional responsibility too. Plus the extra baby-sitting you do when someone in the neighborhood finds out there's an *at home* Mom close by. <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354638,00.html" title="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354638,00.html">www.foxnews.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Study: Stay-at-Home Mom Worth Nearly $117,000 a Year</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">The eighth annual survey calculated a mom's market value by studying pay levels for 10 job titles with duties that a typical mom performs, ranging from housekeeper and day care center teacher to van driver, psychologist and chief executive officer.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"> the annual salary for a stay-at-home mom would be $116,805, while a working mom who also juggles an outside job would get $68,405 for her motherly duties.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">The biggest driver of a mom's theoretical salary is the amount of overtime pay she'd receive for working more than 40 hours a week. The 18,000 moms surveyed about their typical week reported working 94.4 hours — meaning they'd be spending more than half their working hours on overtime.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">"The rewards aren't monetary, but it's a reward knowing that they're safe and happy," Russell said of her sons. "It's worth it all."</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"></div>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354638,00.htmlFri, 09 May 2008 18:09:01 GMT