Stay at Home Moms Earn Less Than Stay At Home Dads

A new Salary.com study says "stay-at-home moms" would earn nearly $117,000* if they were actually paid for all the work they do.

One "stay-at-home mom" from Marietta, Georgia, said the figure sounded a tad low.

But then again, what does she know? It's not like she's out there in the real world, fighting rush hour traffic twice a day, dealing with annoying coworkers, bending over backwards to placate an impossible boss and doing "actual" work.

The biggest driver of a mom's theoretical salary is the amount of overtime pay she'd receive as, evidently, going to the playground several times a week can really take up a great deal of a "stay-at-home mom's" time - Sometimes upwards of 90 minutes a day playing in the sandbox and riding the swings.

"Seriously," said Janis Simon a "stay-at-home mother" of two in Los Angeles, "You don't think I could watch my soaps, read my magazines AND go to the playground once a day in a 40-hour week, Do you?"

"Stay-at-home mom" Janis Simon visits
a local park with her son or daughter.

Doug Soller, a working father from Nutley, New Jersey said, "This is some kinda joke, right? You mean to tell me I could make $117,000 sitting on my ass all afternon and watching Oprah? Where do I sign up?"

What the angry Mr. Soller fails to understand is that, if a stay-at-home mom can earn $117,000 it's safe to assume that "stay-at-home dads" would make well over 200 grand - For the EXACT same work.


*PLEASE NOTE: It is implied that the "stay-at-home mom" is in America legally. If said mom is an alien, she'd earn about $19,000 annually for the same work done by a U.S. Citizen mom.