Monday 28 March 2011

Mothers pay: How a mum's family chores would cost £30,000 a year

With Mothers' Day approaching it might be time to take note.
The daily chores that mothers do in their daily lives is worth a staggering £30,000 a year, a survey found.
Mothers without jobs put in on average 14 hours a day cooking, cleaning, and carrying out childcare.
Even with each job performed for the minimum wage of £5.93, the total figure amounts to £30,373.20 a year - higher than the average salary.
Incredibly, the figure could be as much as twice as high if higher rates of up to £10 an hour were applied.
When the work is done for seven days a week the figure comes to a total of 98.5 hours, according to the research by finance company Legal & General.
The time includes an average of 29 hours a week looking after the children, seven hours doing laundry and four hours as a taxi driver.
A further eight hours are spent cooking and cleaning, four hours shopping, five-and-a-half hours ironing and four hours doing household chores.
Seven hours are spent as a story teller,  two hours as a homework tutor and  three hours as a sports coach. Other weekly jobs include first aider, stylist, sewing,  tidying up, answering phones, gardening and serving tea and snacks.
And four hours a week are spent washing up and one hour is spent  as a counsellor listening to children's problems.
Incredible list of work that a mum does reveals the vast amount of time and money that is spent on children.
Earlier this month it also emerged that free labour from grandmothers saved a parents a combined £33billion a year.
'Mums have long known how busy their lives are. It’s great to be reminded of their value,' Katie O’Donovan, from parenting forum Mumsnet, told the Daily Mirror.
The survey found that while mums are worth more than £30,000, dads are only worth an average £21,306 for the work they put in.

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The staggering cost involved comes as last month it was found that the cost of raising a child is increasing faster than inflation and now totals more than £210,000.
The figure is up 4.5 per cent over the last year, ahead of the official inflation rate of 4 percent, with 78 per cent of parents making cutbacks to cope with financial pressures, the Cost of a Child Report from insurer LV  found.
But while mothers spend so much time with their children, a second survey by ebay.co.uk found that juggling all the tasks leaves mothers no time for fashion.
A quarter of mums wear the same five to 10 items of clothing day after day, 25 per cent only ever wear 5 per cent of their wardrobe and 25 per cent wear pyjamas all day long.

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