Kyle Boatright wrote:

"W P Dixon" wrote in message
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Well,
Considering most production aircraft workers make from 10 to 15 bucks an
hour I don't see how you come up with 45 an hour. That makes a difference
to doesn't it ? I loved working production but you just made alot more
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$45 an hour is probably a realistic cost once you consider that it costs
money to put a building over the worker's head, pay for lights, pay for
tools, pay for supervision, pay to heat/cool the building, etc. For
reference, what shop rate do you pay when someone works on your car? Here
in the Atlanta 'burbs, I pay $60 or so (IIRC) at the local Honda Dealer. The
independant guy charges about $50/hr. I'd say both of these are comparable
rates to the $45/hr mentioned for labor in the previous post.

Heheh, $60/hr shop rate to get a car fixed actually sounds reasonable
to me.

Like KA/karel said in the other reply, around half of the cost of
labor ends up on the paycheck.

If you want _good_ workers (this is aircraft production after all,
you don't take a wrecked airplane back for exchange like a
hamburger), they'll deserve benefits. They'll also need some
training and supervision (both of which will tie up experienced
labor), overhead like management, payroll/HR, taxes. When they get
experience and turn out to be good workers, they'll deserve pay
raises. Also, a disproportionate effort is always expended picking
up the slack for the bad workers. I agree with $45 as an approximation.

$10-15 an hour seems very low. I'm curious where you get this
figure. It sounds like a starting wage advertised in the jobs
section in the newspaper... I could be wrong though.