Work Worth: Mom vs. Dad

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For the past nine or so years, they have put out the “What is a mom’s work worth” around mother’s day, and every year Kurt starts ranting as soon as it comes on without even listening to it. He acts like it’s painful to even consider.

Kurt: What about dads? Dads come home from work and then become the handy man, carpenter, landscaper, daycare/babysitter, auto mechanic, and porn star.

Me: *snickering*

Kurt: Don’t laugh, I’m a porn star, and I want to be paid for it!

Me: *laughing*

Kurt: *raised eyebrow* I am a porn star?

Me: Yes, you’re a porn star.

Kurt: Good, you may live.

Now there is a calculator on salary.com to find out what a mom and dad are worth weather they’re stay-at-home or working. I have several beef’s with this calculator however.

  • Dad’s get paid more. Even if you select stay-at-home-dad their national average for pay is higher than the stay-at-home-mom. A dad’s range is from 71k to 186k with an average while a mom’s is 68k to 181k.
  • There is a less varied set of tasks for dad than for mom yet dad is still paid more on average.
    • The list for dad consists of, Day Care Center Teacher, Cook – Institution, Computer Operator I, Laundry Machine Operator, Facilities Manager, Chief Executive Officer, Van Driver, Psychologist, General Maintenance Worker I, and Groundskeeper.
    • The list for mom consists of, Housekeeper, Day Care Center Teacher, Cook, Computer Operator, Facilities Manager, Van Driver, Psychologist, Laundry Machine Operator, Janitor, Chief Executive Officer, Interior, Designer, Administrative Assistant, Event Planner, Bookkeeper, General Maintenance Worker, Groundskeeper, Nutritionist, Staff Nurse – RN, Plumber, and Logistics Analyst.
  • Neither parent should be paid for their psychology expertise unless they have a fucking degree in psychology, and even then it’s bad practice to use it on family or any one with whom you have influence over beyond that of psychologist. Parents practicing psychology on their kids turn the children into fucking basket cases, so don’t do it.
  • Psychologist should probably be called ‘coach’ or in the case of households with more than one child, ‘referee’.
  • They don’t list ‘porn star’ for either mom or dad.

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10 thoughts on “Work Worth: Mom vs. Dad”

    • Smarmoofus – Yeah when I saw that men made more doing the same job, a job that’s historically and by most if not all cultures to be a “woman’s job”, get paid more I was like, “And Australia’s all WTF?”

    • Henry – Very true! But female porn stars don’t have a very long career. I think they probably retire at 30 or 35-ish. Thanks to Viagra men can keep going for a long time. Of course women can pick it up again later in life doing ‘granny porn’ :P I’ll let you go with that image in your head now cause I’m mean! LOL