You can't put a price on a good dad — or can you?
Can you put a value on a good dad? The consumer insurance site Insure.com
thinks it can, creating a Father's Day Index to translate all those
"dad" tasks, from grilling to car maintenance, into dollars and cents.
And it turns out that dad's value has appreciated quite a bit over the
past year, climbing about 15 percent. Way to go, pops!
Here, Father's Day by the cold, hard numbers:
$23,344The 2013 monetary value of all of dad's household tasks.
SEE ALSO: WATCH: Australia's army chief demonstrates how you address sex abuse$20,248Last year's dad value. According to Barbara Marquand at Insure.com, the 2013 rise is mostly due to increased hourly wages for "drivers teachers, coaches, and plumbers."
27Percent of moms who place dads' contributions at under $10,000. Ouch.
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$6,692The annual value of dad's driving. The hourly wage was not increased for dropping kids off a block away from the mall and agreeing not to get out of the car.
$1,175.20The annual value of dad's landscaping skills, i.e. mowing the lawn and not hurting himself with gardening shears.
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$1,018Annual value
of dad's coaching of little league and various other sports teams that
involve getting small children to take their fingers out of their mouths
and focus.
$57Annual value of dad's pest removal. Killing spiders and disposing of cockroaches apparently does not add up.SEE ALSO: 32 TV shows to watch in 2013 [Updated]
7.3Hours per week fathers spend with their children, nearly triple the time dads spent in 1965, according to Pew Research Center.
189,000The number of stay-at-home dads currently in the United States, an increase of 78 percent from a decade ago.
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$119.84The average amount spent on dads for Father's Day.
$168.94The average amount spent on moms for Mother's Day.
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$59,862.30Mom's 2013 monetary value. 'Nuff said.
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