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

Mine went from 15k to 64k when I factored in childcare - dh says a nanny would cost less but then I pointed out that if you add a cook, cleaner, iron and washer etc it might cost a bit more he backed off a bit!!!!
He has my life insured for less than I'm worth (according to this) - i think he's worried now, I guess he'll keep me alive for a bit longer then!!!

Done it! Depressing!

done it - apparently I do 22% less then the average mum but if I was paid for it, it'd be over £18k per year!!!

£62,650 omg I am so surprised, I do very little house work, but do childcare 24/7 so that is how much I should be paid. I wish I could find someone to pay me what I deserve...

Also said 424% Average for a mum wow I new I was doing my best......

ok I'm going to copy this thread and take itto the lone parents as a little boost for them...

My contribution is worth £42,612 per year
95% of total
224% Average for a mum

DH's contribution is worth £2,303 per year
5% of total
-40% Average for a dad

I am brilliant and he is poo.

hmmm. i didn't put anything in for childcare because i genuinely though that meant, eg if you have teenagers who babysit their sibs, not just parents being parents. which is probably why we get 35K. the whole thing annoyed me - there should be a category of 'earning the family's money' which would equal thing out, surely? and 'studying hard at school in order to fund elderly parents' care home in later years'

Interesting!

TBM contribution is worth £56,286 per year
95% of total
360% Average for a mum

TBD contribution is worth £2,963 per year
5% of total
-34% Average for a dad

Tink's contribution is worth £0 per year
0% of total
-1% Average for a child 0-4

Fifi's contribution is worth £0 per year
0% of total
-1% Average for a child 0-4

Not sure what Tink and Fifi are supposed to contribute Although Tink does love to do the washing and helps tidy-up, maybe I should have included that

Mmm, I'll need to tweek tweek that at a more sensible time of day. DH is worth more than me!

Maybe we should add "clearing snow" as a chore....

To those who mentioned that adding chores was a bit time consuming - I think it's a good point and next time we'll definitely look at making it a lot quicker to complete.

Hmm 87% for me and over £56k a year. I wish someone would pay me that! I did go for 24 hour childcare though, but I think with a c0-sleeping 6 week old that is pretty much valid!

£31045 with me doing 98% of the work and dh doing 2%. Think he'd disagree with that if he was awake

£16pa I should earn but I do -44% of what an average mum does.
dh could earn £7k pa and does 8% more than the average dad.
Both the kids should do more!

I think we have a good system. Dh does his fair share of the housework. He'll put a wash in, including his overalls and if anything needs ironing, he'll do that.
I iron clothes every half term and that's it.
I do the majority of the cooking and making the kids lunches, breakfasts and the washing, but he does wash up every teatime.
He also does all the DIY chores and car maintenance and will also clean up around the house, whilst I always sort out kids homework and what they need for school.

So between us we do share the work quite a bit and I know he does more than the average man and I'm not surprised I do less, I like to think that there's more to life than ironing and polishing.

Although I hasten to add that our house is clean!

I do 69% and he does 30%. I think we should get the kids more involved!

I am worth more than dh - there's a surprise!

34,105 a year which considering i work 2hrs a day and dp works full time isnt bad dp was over 24k so when he says i earn more than u ill put him straight now lol.

Apparently our household worth is £43,909; of which I contribute 90%, but I didn't need a calculator to tell me that

Although, I may have over-estimated a little in places.....

I'm not sure about the values given to specific tasks by the calculator, and DH works VERY hard full-time and travels a lot, so I think it is a shame his contributions aren't really recognised on there too.

I won't be showing it to him - I think it maybe a bit too controversial....

OK, an interesting tool, but like most mums (or dads), I don't really understand the need to know a monetary value, as what each and everyone of us does is priceless and done out of necessity (and for the love of our family).

£74,326 - thats me, dh and the children!!

I can't get any results, it says 'based on the informtion you have given us the total worth of your household is' and then nothing except a little picture of a family! What am I doing wrong?!?

You obviously do nowt too much to quantify Pesha PMSL

LOL - at a household worth of over £99k I think I may have forgotten to put 'week' by some chores! That seems to be shared 51:49% by DP and I, and given that we both WOH, I doubt we can accomplish that much at home, too!

Tidying - general putting away crap doesn't seem to be covered - that's what i spend most time doing, I'm sure!

Also, time doesn't equal output, does it?

I mean, last night I decided to teach DS to peel potatoes (having watched that Girls and Boys Alone programme). After 20 mins he had half peeled 2 potatoes. Would he be priced at market rates for that?

Hurrah, I'm actually worth something, that list was getting scarily long.

£54,462

That would do nicely as a wage!

£31,171 - and I do 76% of it; dh does 24%. Ds does nowt!

Have underestimated a bit though because I only counted childcare as hours when ds was awake - forgot that obviously I do childcare while he's in bed too!