How much would you earn if you got paid for everything you did at home? Try the Cornhill Direct Calculator and have a chance of winning £100 of vouchers

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Apparently the average British family with children spends 73 hours on domestic chores per week; that?s over 65% of the time we?re awake spent on jobs around the house. And the cost of that work, if we were paid at market rates to do it, amounts to an average of £25,000 per family, per year. Cornhill Direct did the research and have come up with a 'household economy calculator', so that you can work out who in your family is worth the most. Just enter details of all the daily and weekly jobs each family member does and it will work out the value of that work (and demonstrate clearly who is doing the most )

Cornhill want to know what you think about the calculator ? obviously it?s a bit of fun but is there a more serious underlying point? is the true value of housework and domestic chores underestimated? are you surprised at how much you?re ?worth?? and was it a surprise to see who in your house is 'worth' the most? There is also anecdotal evidence that as the economy gets worse, everyone is doing more housework ? is this true in your family? Possibly it?s the only area we feel like we have control over at the moment?

You can find the calculator here and one top tip for using it - it gives you a choice as to whether you fill in your hours total for the day, week or month - we'd suggest week or month as we found there wasn't enough to put down for the day... but that may because we are all idle bints at MNHQ

Everyone who tries the calculator and takes part in this discussion will be entered into a prize draw to win £100 of vouchers from a company of your choice.

You can also download a copy of their e-book about managing the family finances if you fancy it.

Thanks

MNHQ

like others got bored filling in all the chores - would be better to have a longer list from the get go.

£50,598 pa.

I am £47,341 - £4,767 of which is taxi service
Apparently i do 299% more than the average mother - but I am still a slattern so I am not sure how I managed that

It is great fun to do and interesting to mess around with the averages - dd is not at all happy as it shows her being 7% down on the average teenager but dd does LOADS each week (I am sure she does more than most of her peers!).

It would be helpful if it gave you a bit more information, things like, does washing mean the time taken to load/unload or doe sit include the hour spent whilst it actually washes?

Ours was £58000 with my share at £48000. I do 83% of the household stuff, but I think that is generous toward DH. His is only boosted by the fact that he has the boys on a Saturday when I work. He doesn't do anything in the house though...

I do 311% more than the average mother...there must be some real slatterns out there then

would be much improved if you could add different period for different people.

ie my DD likes to load/unload the dishwasher, but as she is only 20months she does about an hour a month, but my DH does a good few hours a week, but once you had moved it from the chores list you couldn't add it again iyswim?

also would like more on the chores list, like general tidying as DS has to keep his room tidy, but there wasn't a chore for that.

Info on how they calculated it would be good too; ie is ironing worth more than loading the dishwasher.

I'm only worth about £20K and do less than the average mum . DH is worth £14K even though he has a full time job and I'm off on maternity leave.

DS2, does less than average, but he is only 12 weeks old so can he be forgiven?

lol, if the ones doing 300% of the average mum's chores are slatterns, what does that make me?

We were £26,674 with me doing 68% - can't believe DP is a massive 44% higher than average Dad - we both work outside the home, we both share most of the chores, the only reason I'm higher is I do a full day's childcare during the week and do pick ups 3/4 days, whereas we share it over weekends. Why are dads STILL doing so much less??

Ours was £7682 but I did get up to answer the phone and got distracted . Is that low then?

i was 33k and dp 11K

I have 6 children and 1 baby so had to UNDERESTIMATE the child care

Ach, I went through all that and then the bloody thing froze and I didn't get a figure.

I will just have to assume that I am priceless

Feeling very smug and DP is sulking on the sofa.

I'm worth £29,892 but am only 18% above average
DP is worth £7,654 but is 123% above average!

Hasn't cheered him up though. Accusing me of emasculating him. Told him he can iron any time he likes. Doesn't seem to fond of the idea!

Mine came out at around 9k but I didn't put anything down for childcare as I work full time (I forgot about all the evening and weekend care I cover). I also only put down what I schedule myself to do and began to lose interest.

Ds (9) is worth £800 pa. I think he would do better as a rent boy.

We were £17836 - I'd be tempted to pay nearly half that just for the ironing to get done...

£82,172, 645% of average for a mum?
Surely not - the state of my house would suggest otherwise!

£20k - I feel a bit of a light weight

Have done it again and it worked this time.

We have come out at £32,259. I do 96% according to this.

I only put down 12 hrs a day childcare though, which is not the case, seeing it's only me that gets up in the night...

Our total was £37,144 with me doing 96% of the total work which is true cos dp either sleeps or works and dd is 2 and enjoys loading the washing machine, very very slowly, and thats it!
However I am -45% on the average mum, do average mums not sleep? And hoover all night long? I am a tad confused.

i am going to do it again

i have 6 kids
8 bedrooms
cook all meals from scratch
and my house is always clean and tidy.... 37k? gah

I love it that unless you do 100% of jobs you are less than average Mum!

I had to admit DH mows lawn, cleans car & runs dog

£51,008

I'm worth far more than that!!

I put my 3yo dd down for an hour of cooking per week, and an hour of washing clothes per week (because she puts the dirty laundry in the basket or machine). However, it marked her contribution down as being 23% lower than the average for a child aged 0-4

Bearing in mind that this includes babies and 1yos who can't do much, I don't see how the average could be that high. Or maybe I should add together all the times my dd asks to go to softplay, and count that as "Organising family events and special occasions"...

melpomene, my dd in the same age bracket was down for just 1hr of tidying (her own room) per week plus 1 hr of other jobs per week (laying table etc) but she was shown as average for a 0-4yo. I wonder if it depends on what sort of jobs they do?

That would be a reasonable question to put to the creators MNHQ, how does it work out the averages and are they dynamic? (ie do the averages update as more people fill it in?)

oh, I'm going to do it again and fix the result a bit more- the good news is that i'm 83%, the bad news is that's still only 11k .
I am slovenly, it's true, but I think I've underestimated the childcare bit- should it be all the hours children are not at school but are awake?

ah, that's better, I'm up to 21 grand a year. Lies, damned lies and statistics