Wanted: Housekeeper, day care center teacher, cook, laundry machine operator, computer operator, psychologist, facilities manager, van driver, chief executive officer and janitor. Ninety-plus-hour work week. Free overtime opportunity possible.

Aside from picking up the Mother's Day buffet tab or at least your dirty socks, now might be a good time to assess what a mother's job is worth.

It's an even better time to consider what it could cost to outsource the position: $116,805 a year for stay-at-homers and $68,405 for part-time working moms, according to Salary.com's annual survey.

The Salary.com time clock put moms' workweek at 94.4 and 54.6 hours, respectively.

Those salaries actually are lower than what they were last year, but that's more the result of new methodology that takes into account the nature of the mother's workplace -- a small company of fewer than 25 pays less than the corporate world.

A leading provider of on-demand career resources, the Waltham, Mass.-based Salary.com is in the business of researching and assigning fair market value to various occupations.

Bill Coleman, senior vice president at Salary.com Inc., said the number-crunching explored how much time the 18,000 moms surveyed spent in various tasks, pro-rating their salaries based on the 10 top occupations that most closely matched.

Joanne Tosti-Vasey said the results made sense to her from three perspectives -- as president of Pennsylvania NOW; as a former researcher whose doctorate was in family studies and as a Bellefonte, Centre County; stay-at-home mom of 11-year-old son Kenneth, who she needed to get to his doctor's checkup 10 minutes ago.

At Penn State University, she did her thesis on the shared child-raising roles of husband and wife. "So it doesn't surprise me because when that kind of study was done 15, 20 years ago, I think it was $56,000 or $60,000 for the higher [stay-at-home] level. Inflation could've easily doubled that," she said.

Deanna DellaVedova, Squirrel Hill chapter NOW president, also gave the survey a thumbs up.

"I have no argument there. Everybody's overworked and underpaid including you," she said, "but not as much as your wife."

Now 60, she's in the "been there, done that, raised them, put them through college" phase. She's administrator at Rel-Tek Manufacturing, a Monroeville firm that makes gas sensors for use in coal mines and such.

Her son, Joseph DellaVedova, has long been out of the house but not necessarily out of her hair. She was heading out this weekend to his new but empty home outside Washington, D.C., to help him settle in.

"You couldn't pay me enough for all of what I'm doing," she said. "I'm loading up on two weeks' work of meatloaf and 90 bucks of groceries," plus packing rag-tag clothes so that she can help her son paint.

Not that she's complaining. Joseph moved, she explained, for a new job after having just ended a distinguished, 13-year career with the military as a major, having served as public affairs officer in Qatar under Central Command chief and U.S. Army Gen. Tommy Franks.

In fact, she recalled that then-Capt. DellaVedova was the one who first informed Gen. Franks in April 2003 that the raid to free Pvt. Jessica Lynch was a success.

"I agonized when my son was serving in the desert," she said. "Staining his deck this weekend is so much better."