How Much do you Work for, each month/week/day?

[zebra]

After tax, NI, pension, communting and child-care costs -- what do you take home? Don't worry about mortgage or insurance, etc., just want to find out how much £ people 'gain' by working.

It was only £4/day for me (about £35/month) 2 years ago, but is up to a massive £25/day now -- only because DH does most my childcare. Anybody else brave enough to say?

Bluebear: you are not the worst paid. Pamina3 reckons she actually pays for her husband go to to work, and Musica earnt less than £1/month last year!

Yup, if people keep adding replies I will keep periodicially updating.

Zebra - self employed and work wiht dh from home (low overheads and we charge out all travel costs) so dont really calculate my hours (as I spread them out all over the week) but in theory I work 2.5 days a week and pay 3 mornings childcare at £15.50 a session. We charge out on a day rate (dh would rahter I didnt say what ) but do not work consistently everyday. I do majority of domestic work (and ALL planning)and run all household finance because he has the skill we are marketing and puts in more hours into the job that is it he way we divide it up.
Any how I am in your £80+ range for stats purposes. What is the purpose of your research? I'm curious. Is it to see if women or mothers are getting a fair deal financially?
Does everybody assume the cost of childcare comes out of the mothers income only? Or is that just a way of accounting.
We just see it all coming into the family pool and then paying out of the family pool what needs to pay out to keep the family and business going. Mortgage food childcare holidays petrol etc. But I do think that the fact it has worked out for us to be self employed is a privilege and has changed our life and relationship beyond all recognition.

hurrah, more mad fools! thanks zebra - I obviously don't read carefully enough.

I make just over £83 a day after deductions, and no longer have any childcare costs.
I only work three days a week, and DH works 30hours a week, so we juggle the school runs between us.
However, at one point when we were paying F/T childcare and we both worked full time, I think I was only making £23 a day.

£25 a day, I work p-t it equates to about £480 a month for 25 hour weeks...after petrol it's about £430..luckily don't have to pay for any childcare as both at school.

Bubbly -- I'm not researching! Don't say that or Mumsnet will think I am and charge me money for starting this thread .
Just asked because I was curious what people thought work was worth going to for,if that makes sense. Sometimes people say they would only earn £20/month if they had a job, so why bother? But obviously, some people do bother, and I would, too. Wondered if I was that unusual...
NOT to criticise people who choose to be SAH-parents, just wondering how variable the 'worth-it' threshold is.
TBH, I was in the position of paying DH to 'go to work' for most of the past year, because he had a non-paying part-time ... (I can't use the word 'job' to describe it) and yet we still had kids at child-minder's one day a week.

Sorry zebra didnt want to get you into trouble.....just probably thought academic = research. Which must be as infurating as a friend of mine who is a HV and she is driven to distraction by poeple assuming she is checking up on them all the time!
If someone said that I couldnt read a book unless I was paid for it I would be a little peed off. I think that about work. If I wasnt doing this I would be doing something with my head. This is by far not my ideal job but it has huge advantages for us and I can do it which helps.
Dont we all just get on with making the most of our lives. It's reassuring to think that poeples motive for work is not PURELY financial. That might seem a little weird.