Being a stay-at-home parent is truly one of the most difficult jobs in the world and a role that is often taken for granted in our society.
One website has decided to acknowledge this career in a unique way. Each year, Salary.com releases an estimated salary for stay-at-home parents based on their hours, the importance of their work, and the salaries of comparable fields.
Their day often involves cooking, cleaning, caring for little ones, and often comes with few or no breaks. Plus, did we mention that parents are on-call 24/7? Oh, and there's no overtime pay.
They determined that stay-at-home parents should be making about $178,000 annually, calculated based on a 96-hour workweek (remember what I said about the lack of breaks?).
These roles included teacher, judge, nurse, psychologist, and coach. Yup, that sounds like the day in the life of a parent for sure.
In 2018, their estimated salary was calculated to be just over $162,000. That's a 9.6% increase — hey, I'd take it!
