Are you overworked and underpaid? And that?s before you even get out of the house?
The average British family with children spends 73 hours on domestic chores per week; that?s more than 65% of the time we?re awake spent on jobs around the house, according to the results of a survey conducted by Cornhill Direct Family Insurance.?? 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.
The survey of 1,000 families was carried out to mark the launch of a new e-book from Cornhill Direct which provides tips and advice on how to manage the family budget.? And using official wage data from the Office for National Statistics, it?s been possible to prove just how much all that free hard work is actually worth.
Working mums? won?t be surprised to hear that once you have children your workload doubles – in households containing just couples, the average value of the domestic work done had a value a lot less at ?11,300.
According to the survey, the most hated job is ironing with four in 10 saying they dislike it the most. But perhaps more surprisingly, as a nation we prefer vacuuming to gardening.? And proving that the battle of the sexes is alive and well, 74% of the women reckon they do the most around the house but only 48% of their men agreed.? The biggest surprise is that only 12% of families claimed to have ever paid for babysitting ? either parents are staying in most of the time, or the family support network is alive and well.
So that you can work out who is the most valuable member of your family, Cornhill Direct has created a ?household economy? calculator.
