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The Worth Of The Job Of Mom: Faulty Study?

by Flexo on May 10, 2006

in Career and Work, People, Salaries

Earlier this month, Personal Finance Advice and others reported on a study by Salary.com saying that a stay-at-home mom’s job is equivalent to an amalgamation of many vocations that would together provide an annual salary of $134,121.

Carl Bialik, the “Numbers Guy” at the Wall Street Journal calls foul.

The Wall Street Journal likely emailed this story to hundreds of bloggers, so I’m sure you’ll hear more about it, while other bloggers will ignore it a piece of mass-email (or spam). I wanted to share the link because I enjoy when individuals dispute studies that quickly become widely accepted.

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1 SkyeBlue May 11, 2006 at 10:34 am

Maybe having one of these “studies” for men also might have been a good idea. Besides his full time job my husband is an auto mechanic, plumber, general handyman, bug and wasp killer and gardener. I’m not sure what the going annual salary for all those jobs are.

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