Moms by the Numbers

Did you know that, if she were a salaried employee, the average stay-at-home mom would earn more than an estimated $115 million dollars? Go figure! Read on for more interesting data related to all things mom.

80

The percentage of moms who are happy when back-to-school time rolls around, according to a survey conducted by the Marketing to Moms Coalition. Photo: Shutterstock

117,867

The amount of money (in dollars) the average stay-at-home mother would earn each year if she were a salaried employee, according to the experts atSalary.com. Use the Mom Salary Wizard at Mom.Salary.com to create a fun personalized paycheck and pay stub that you can print out and give to a friend or family member on May 8. The site will calculate how much she should be earning based on where she lives, number of children, and hours spent doing various motherly duties (cooking, housekeeping, acting as a chauffeur…). Photo: Shutterstock

82.8 Million 

The estimated number of women in the United States who are mothers (that's about 4 percent of moms worldwide), according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Photo: Thinkstock

58

The percentage of people who chose Clair Huxtable of The Cosby Show as one of the top five best TV moms in a survey conducted by TiVo. Rounding out the group: Marion Cunningham from Happy Days, Carol Brady of The Brady Bunch, June Cleaver from Leave It to Beaver and Marge Simpson of The Simpsons.Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Stringer/Getty Images

1908 

The year the first official Mother's Day service was held, at Andrews Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia. The holiday was started by Anna Jarvis to honor her deceased mother, who taught at the church. Jarvis went on to successfully petition President Woodrow Wilson to make Mother's Day a national holiday six years later. Photo: Thinkstock