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

KingCanuteIAm - no it's nothing to do with that. Someone we work with was suggesting that she does more housework now than she's ever done and she thought maybe it was a control thing i.e. when chaos all around you, your home space is the one place you have control over. Maybe it's nonsense?

Possibly for some people, there are those that see control in housework. Mind you, I am probably the wrong person to comment, I am both a slattern at home and an ostrich about the recession

Mine came in as dh contributing £34,900 a year and me £28,220 a year - and ds zero (we really must get him doing some more chores!).

Dh doing more than me was expecred, as I work full time whereas he works from home (studying and setting up a buisness) and does the majoirty of the child care (and the cleaning - but then he is the one that won't get a cleaner! ).

My score was increased 'cos I do a lot of cooking plus I do almost all of the grocery shopping.

Why did you have to add all the chores yourself though? That seemed a bit labour-intensive!

Oh, I have to say, to those of you not counting childcare when your child is asleep; this has to be wrong, the idea is to get an idea of what it would cost to hire someone to do your job should the worst happen. In this case the person hired would not be able to go home when your child is asleep - just like you cannot duck out to the pub or something.

Parenting is 24hr and that is part of the problem people face when children are left without a parent. 24hr jobs are not popular and funding them is expensive!

KingCanuteIAm

Oops - recalculation (I hadn't noticed that yuo hasd to change to Weekly from daily for every chore):

New figures: dh's contribution is £9,415, mine is £6,636. What I found intersting is that mine is supposedly 33% above the averge for a mum (where I would have though it was below as dh does so much of it) and dh's is 119% below the average for a dad.

Just what it is that the average dad is doing that is supposed to be worth so mcuh?

£71,501 with 92% of that being mine. I did put childcare as 24 hours though, it is currently true as mine are running a sleep relay with only one sleeping at any given time

£71,219 for the household and I provide £55,615 of that. But I did exagerate a bit.

£30, 963 , of which £27K is my contribution (and I work PT) and £5K my DH......i must be superwoamn ...so will I paid this much if I win . I haven't counted sleeping time though..

Think it's because my kids are pre-school, mega hyper and leave a trail of destruction behind them.

£34,488 worth per year.

We got over £26k although I apparently come out as contributing below the average for mums but dh contributes more - although I do work fairly full time so perhaps its not surprising. What I want to know is how ds (not yet 4) was below average at contributing nothing. I mean, even if he helps with the hoovering, it doesn't actually achieve much and makes the cleaning take at least 2x as long....

I'm £36,426 and 97% of that is me! Nothing surprising there though.

Although dh does work more hours than me.

£10,056, of which I contribute 56%. Apparently my contribution is worth 131% less than the average mum - result! (No childcare recorded, as I multi-task - vaguely wondering about where my teenagers are/will they ever emerge from their rooms with surfing the internet!)

Well I'm worth at least 32k. I notice the children's contibution is below average,but sincethe eldest is 3 it's not suprising!

Only added a couple of chores aS I got a bit bored of doing it (only slightly lesss boring than the chores themselves!

"Just what it is that the average dad is doing that is supposed to be worth so mcuh?"
good point, I'll have a look at the figures and find out.

I think the percentage is more interesting than the actual amounts - I counted childcare as being "active" i.e. when DS is awake.

Anyway the percentage is 96% me, which since I work p/t I think DH gets a pretty good deal

61,462 for household, my contribution is 77% of the total. have bookmarked the page to show DH!

£41,934 with me doing 83% - b ut I think I do more

I am a SAHM though.

I liked the calculator but it was just a bit of fun, I'd never throw it in DH's face during a row!

mine was only about 12k but didn't add evey single job as I was doing hours per day, and don't do everything every day and couldn't be bothered working out per week/month.

I think mine was so low because I failed to spot the "childcare" chore that you are all mentioning!

just done it again and got about 50k

but dh (who does f all) got 5% of the total at 2k which was an astonishing 307% Average for a dad. That can't be right

£57,641

£16.5k - but I missed the childcare bit as well But that added onto my salary would look awfully nice!