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

£25 K for me, as i suspected we are lazier than the average family LOL especially since dd is under 4, childcare must be lower when they start school

OK just re did it because as someone else rightly said you have to see childcare as 24 hours, £49K. I didn't really understand the average percentages (maths not my strong point) Would have been nice to see how each job compared with 'average mum' Eg you spend 1 hour a month dusting (on a good month) 'average mum' spends x hours??

£26,500 here
Hubby doesn;t know how good he's got it

£28,897 - really must print it out and give it to DH! It is frightening, though, when you add up the hours on various things. A lot of mine was cooking as I cook from scratch due to family allergies - it's easier!

I am only worth £20,800. i don't think this is accurate in taking into account the quality if the work we do. As in, dh's contribution isn't too shabby at £9552. But he doesn't do the washing properly, puts the coloureds in with the whites, leaves the clothes scrumpled on the airer etc. his idea of doing homework with ds is listening to him read. I do all the frustrating numeracy/literacy/cutting and sticking stuff.

I think there should be another box where you estimate how much time you spend redoing a job that your partner has already done.

LOL gemmiegoatlegs
Perhaps we need grade chores 1-10 where 10 is the most difficult/boring and 1 is "oh come on, it's only taken 5 mins don't try and lord that one over me"

I forgot to put childcare in as well: duh.

I clicked off it and it won't back-track now, but I was worth about £10,500 (not counting childcare), and do 76% (again, not counting...).

DH is quite good at pulling his weight, really.

i need a raise and i way underestimated childcare been as though i worj through the night on it too!

I am worth 32k and dh 13k. When we factor in our actual salaries we actually are worth the same. I wont tell him that though!

Jointly worth 42k, 95% me ( 40k), 5% ( 2k) dh. Did count childcare but not 24 hours - I do 10-12 hours sole childcare a day but they sleep through so not counting nights!

Ok with that at the moment as am SAHM until 2010. But the proportions will probably be the same when I do go back...and the amount roughly matches what I can earn full time if I work flat out, which is a bit spooky.

I was worth 30k
and I did 100%, as my lazy good-for-nothing 2 yr old does sod all round the house (1% less than the average 0-4 yr old apparently!) lol

About 20K in total, we do no decorating, car maintainance etc and DD is little so not much in the way of unpaid taxi driver here (yet).

I do do more, mainly as I do most of the cooking, I gave him a bit of credit for it though as he is capable of making a bowl of cornflakes and giving DD fruit etc. DH does about a third of everything, bolstered by the fact he is the King of washing in our house - not bad as he works FT and I only do 3 days a week!

DD scored 0% but then she is only 2 and I suspect cleaning the tv with a babywipe does not really score her any points

49.000 and I only put 11 hours a day for childcare. It was the taxi driving that bumped us over the edge as I spend more than two hours/day in the car most days with the toing and froing.

Fascinating but not too sure that it would be an effective way to measure the value of housework.

Oh dear - yet another thread to show how lazy/scummy our household is. Totaled £20k of this I do 83%. Most of dh's was dog walking!

The childcare elmenet was hard to calculate as does night duty count?

How do you get to 50K +?

Probably don't deserve to win vouchers as I'm too scummy!

not sure it's that accurate - only put childcare as a day job when in reality I do that 24 / 7.
Might be easier to calculate if you put in number of washing loads / number of dishwasher empties etc as I don't really know how long these things take.

Perhaps we should ask Anthea to fill it in...

£87,374

that is more like it

40k for me and 7k for dh 85/15 share

£53,000 as a single parent

I am worth £46k apparently but dh only £9k - it is as I thought - but I probably put dh and i down for more childcare - found it difficult to work out the hours on that - and with 3 children under 5 am I meant to calculate childcare hours per child or as a group iykwim?

I meant to say I could have put dh and i down for more childcare...

£53,990 for us as a family. I'm worth £47K but apparently that's -2% for the average Mum . Dh is now sitting smugly in the corner as the calculator showed he's worth just over 6K but does 281% more than the average Dad!!! He does do loads mind you - but I don't understand those percentages.

Our hours were high because DS2 has special needs, so needs 24hr childcare (well 18 - I took off when he's at school).

That -2% is MNetting you know (slopes off to do the washing up...)

the figures it comes up with are based on how everyone else has filled it in so it would seem that there is a fairly clear indication that women still generally do a lot more than men around the house. Would love to know if any of you have managed to get your DH/DP to fill it in and whether their totals/percentages worked out differently!

Me, £44000, DH £19000. Not bad. No surprises for me as I'm a SAHM of 4, but DH does lots around the house plus work full time. My % was 247 and his 129. Over the course of a year DH would be more with hols etc increasing his childcare and household stuff.

I'm apparently only worth £2,116. I thought I was worth more. But, the rest of the family were worth £0. I think more chores should be up there. Maybe they are and I somehow missed them?

£53,935 for us. My contribution is 79% - scarily DD gets just under a grand for her contribution and she's two

Naturally it didn't include the categories that take up the majority of my time:

(1) Removing dead mice the cat has half eaten
(2) Repeating 'pleaseputyourshoeson, PLEASEputyoursoddingshoes on' for an hour a day.
(3) Nappy changing
(4) Taking various members of the family to the doctors