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

[CarrieMumsnet]

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

i think our household total was affected greatly by my aversion to ironing- there was no option for an hour a year

£52,000 with me doing about 80% of it. I'm sure that's not right. Perhaps I missed something. I did get bored adding new chores, so gave up - perhaps there should be more included automatically.

Turns out my 19 month old son is not pulling his weight at all. Which I always suspected...

I quite enjoyed doing it, but am not sure what purpose it serves other than to cause arguments. dh would object vociferously to being told he did 20% of the work...

I got just over 15 k with 4 children under the age of 10, one being at home all day! I think the calculator did not do me justice! especially the taxi bit as I do not drive but still spend just under 2 hours everyday walking them to and back from school!

How to measure/put a value against childcare is an interesting point, I wonder if there should be a sliding scale (although not sure how you could do it) relating to the age of the child i.e. when they are babies the care is 24 hours a day but as they grow up it drops to just the hours that they are awake.

just to say that we're still interested in anyone who hasn't already filled out the calculator having a look at it. Do let us know what you think. £100 vouchers up for grabs.
thanks

Don't see the point in this really - OK a bit of fun - but if the relationships gets to the point where we have to work out how much we are worth it is a bit sad.
I did fill it in though, under the banner of research - and it may have been acurate - but what for? It wasn't a fun exercise and I certainly won't be using it to start a family discussion.
Sorry if this is a bit negative but I could have put a load of washing in instead - much more productive!

Fair point hummymummy. Of course, it is just meant to be lighthearted and also to demonstrate what the value of the work done by everyone in the household as a total is - not just to pitch DW against DH.

Just wanted to bump for the weekend. Anyone else want to have a look for the chance to win £100 of vouchers?

thanks

Bumping again: last chance to be in with a chance of winning those vouchers!

have sent this to DH - I am responsible for 91% of our household chores, although I did put childcare down as being 24 hours!!

I really liked it as made me realise my worth and how useless lazy wonderful my Dh is !

I started filling this out, but it was so long and tedious to add extra chores that I gave up. Why don't you just put up a complete list of chores rather than asking people to add them?

How do you differentiate between homework done with a 7 year old (listening to spellings, for example, that anyone can do while cooking supper) and doing complex tutoring in physics or a foreign language that it would cost £40 or so an hour to pay a tutor for?

£21,737, and that only included child care whn dp isnt here

I will show it to him later... once he has finished watching the footie... well depending on the result of the footie... If liverpool loose I might end up spending the night in the shed

I do over 90% of everything around here and DH found that out when I was in hospital having an op on my leg, and I was recovering for 5 days at home!! He was worn out after doing dressing and breakfast!!!!! Lazy oaf.

i didn't add childcare. What does that say about me?
my result was low but figure thats why [and I am on the slatterns thread]

£40,033 here. 82% me, 18% dh. DH noticed that this is WAY higher than the average male contribution so has decided he can sit down for the rest of the evening and have a beer. Dont think this is going to work in my favour somehow...

And how do you distinguish between 3* type cooking and bangers & mash?

Think I overestimated the first time, I was worth £62K Mostly on childcare - well, you are on call 24 hours, aren't you, and no-one else is getting up in the middle of the night if it isn't me...
Frankly, DH and the DCs are not pulling their weight, am going to have to have stern words with the 4yo especially - she is below average. (What can you get a 4yo to do? Ironing? Say yes.)

Basically I think I am super-efficient (so few hours) but very high-quality around the house - how does your calculator account for that?

So I copied & pasted So what happens now?
MY lovely mum contributes 12% £5000 a year. Isn't she fab! The average is 1% for a Gran

£52,530, with me doing 84% and DH 14%. DH does 10% more than an average dad (that is because he irons his own shirts)

I put in the childcare time that they are not in school as I am responsible for them at this time.

I filled it in too - we are 51k, with 28 of it mine. I don't think I did it right!, but am out of the house 2 days a week.

I counted 12 hours a day of childcare, but agree am really on duty 24 hours a day. Also have 5 children, and am sure that this should count as more childcare than someone who has 1 child ?

my au pair does 18% of the chores in our house, me 55% and dh 27%. Shamefully the dcs do nothing. zilch.

£63,756......geeze I wish I did earn that!
It did show me though that I do nearly everything.....my dh needs a kick in the backside!

£57k here - dh does 302% more than the average dad at 'only' 10% of the household jobs (& I suspect he might want to tinker with my figures - rather terrifying to think what the average man isn't doing