![]() ![]() Ninety-two percent of domestic workers are women, and 57 percent of them are Black, Hispanic, Asian American, or Pacific Islander. ![]() This expertise lives in the bodies of women of color throughout America. This article was adapted from Angela Garbes’s new book Essential Labor For many domestic workers, providing quality care means forging intimate, familial relationships and acquiring professional knowledge that is sensual and personal. Read: Becoming a parent during the pandemic was the hardest thing I’ve ever doneĮven care work that is paid is hardly ever paid enough. In America alone, they would have earned $1.5 trillion, according to an analysis by The New York Times. By far.Īccording to Oxfam, if women around the world made minimum wage for all the unpaid hours of care work they performed in 2019, they would have earned $10.8 trillion. I was floored when the calculator told me that my annual wage should be more than $300,000, which would make being a domestic worker the highest-paying job I’ve ever had. It was created by the journalist Amy Westervelt, who used Bureau of Labor Statistics data to assign an hourly wage to different tasks-cleaning, considering the emotional needs of family members, doing yard work, cooking, etc. About a year into the pandemic, at an emotional low, I entered the hours I spent caring for my family and our home into the online Invisible Labor Calculator to see how much my work might be worth. ![]()
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