What's she worth to you?

Just in time for Mother's Day comes this reality check from Salary.com: The amount of skill and time a typical stay-at-home mom puts into her family is worth just north of $134,000 in salary each year. For working moms, their "mom job" work is valued right around $86,000... in addition to the income they make at their "work job."

Obviously, it's impossible to put a dollar figure on the worth of a human being, but Salary.com's Mom Salary Wizard gives an eye-opening breakdown of the jobs moms do at home, the hours they invest in them, and what someone doing that type of work outside the home might expect to be compensated for all her effort.

There isn't any more important work than raising well the generations that come after us. Thank goodness there are women - and men, too - who can look beyond the financial sacrifices of parenting to see the tremendous good they are doing, for their children and for all of us.