[TheForge] OT: several questions and thoughts

[Marc Godbout]

On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 10:22 -0500, Demon Buddha wrote:
> 
> Dave Mudge wrote:
...
> > These are people that are not performing a skilled
> > labor task. Their base pay is $27.00 / hr. and when you add in all the
> > benefits the pay is up to $55 / $60 / hr.  Now I don't begrudge paying for
> > what you get, but $60 / hr for putting a screw in a door seems a bit
> > ridiculous to me. 
...
> A person who can barely read is 
> not worth $60 per hour in toto to put square pegs into rounds holes all 
> day.  They are worth minimum wage, if that.  
> 

I'm guessing that the $60/hr is a "loaded" rate. Manufacturing
operations, and actually anyone who has employees, use a loaded salary
to figure their costs. This includes actual pay to the employee,
benefits, heat, lights, furniture, ...  All the stuff you need to pay
that supports the worker. Even the burger-assembler costs Micky D's
probably $30 - $40 / hour, when you look at their balance sheets.

But is that $27/hr base pay really earned, just because it's something
you or I wouldn't want to do, as was mentioned in a different post?
There are lots of job that fit that description and they make minimum
wage. Anybody here care to clean sewage plants? For any $$? 

If the auto manufacturers were allowed to pay $10/hr, I'd bet we'd still
find people to put our precious cars together just as well.

-- 
Marc