Dailey Bailey: If You Paid Dad for All the Work He Did Around the House . . . You’d Only Owe Him $20,000

Every Mother’s Day, we tell you how much the average mother would be worth if she was paid fair-market value for everything she does around the house.

Depending on what jobs are included in the estimate, mom would earn anywhere from $60,000 to $119,000 a year if she was paid for all her work.

Well, someone decided to do a similar study for Father’s Day, to see how much the average dad would be worth . . . and the guys don’t come out looking very good.

The average dad does about $20,248 worth of work around the house each year. That’s about a third of what the average mom does in the lowest estimate.

Corrected for inflation, dads are doing about $1,000 less work than they did 20 years ago.