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Originally Posted by Sax1031
I bet when you factor in your benefits you are getting really close to $40 an hour.  |
Benefits can't be attributed to a worker in a direct manner though. A person making $20/hr working isn't getting $20 in benefits at the same time. It only works as an average, and even then, many of the benefits are still active after retirement and are more or less a fixed cost. So it doesn't really make much sense to combine the two since theoretically, if GM employed only 1 factor worker and everyone else was layed off or retired, he would have an equivalent hourly cost of millions of dollars per hour, despite the fact he only gets $20 or so. Conversely, if GM were to hire 10 million factory workers, the average cost of each would only be a bit higher than regular pay.