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The average wage in 2006 was $38,651.41.
That is $18.58 an hour
That is a far car from your $75 an hour factory job.
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But still pretty darn good for a factory worker. I know telecom technicians who don't make that... |
Toyota Motor is looking for assembly workers to work in Southern California at $19 and change. I have the exact rate back at the office. I do not know if you have to join a union or not but that is still not $75 an hour. $75 an hour sounds like someone who has been working in the industry for a long time. |
Likely it is non-union if it is Toyota. $75 or more an hour is what the guys that work for Ford and GM in the Cleveland area around me are making, trust me, I know many of them, some are my clients. UAW is a very powerful union. Those wages plus the union health insurance which is nearly 100% coverage is why your cars cost $30,000+.
$19 an hour isn't bad money for many people, you could live decent off of that if you weren't the typical "I need to have it all so I am up to my waist in credit card bills and debt" american. Plus those guys work a lot of OT which is either time and a half or double time or even triple during extra shifts and holidays. Many college graduates in white collar jobs don't make that much.