Silly prattle from economic morons:
A full-time stay-at-home mother would earn $134,121 a year if paid for all her work, an amount similar to a top U.S. ad executive, a marketing director or a judge, according to a study released Wednesday.
A mother who works outside the home would earn an extra $85,876 annually on top of her actual wages for the work she does at home, according to the study by Waltham, Massachusetts-based compensation experts Salary.com.
To reach the projected pay figures, the survey calculated the earning power of the 10 jobs respondents said most closely comprise a mother's role -- housekeeper, day-care teacher, cook, computer operator, laundry machine operator, janitor, facilities manager, van driver, chief executive and psychologist.
The obvious point to make is that most jobs have mutiple functions that could be individually priced, but that would be taking these "compensation experts" more far more seriously than they deserve.
(A picky point of word usage, by the way. The whole comprises the parts (e.g., the Senate comprises 100 members). The parts do not comprise the whole. And "comprised of" is always wrong.)
