A quart is 2 pints. A pint is sixteen fluid ounces of water and weighs about 16 ounces (avoirdupois weight.) A gallon is 4 quarts (8 pints) and thus weighs about 8 pounds. Five gallons would be about 40 pounds.
In some cases, if your mother is on Medicaid, she can designate you as her personal home care aide and you can get paid a small amount through Medicaid. If your mother has her own resources, you can draw up a contract agreeing to work as her home health aide and she can pay you a salary that you both agree upon.
Meanwhile, moms that work outside the home earned a âmomâ base salary of $39,763 plus $23,709 in overtime, adding $63,472 on top of their day jobs. âWe see [Mom] as the compilation of 10 jobs in one person,â said Evilee Ebb, general manager of Salary.com.