Foxconn, the major supplier to Apple, is going to double the workers’ wages again.
Taiwanese electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn will double the minimum monthly salary of its workers in mainland China by the end of next year, reports our Chinese-language sister paper Want Daily.
Earlier this month in Shanghai, Foxconn chairman and president Terry Gou announced that the company’s salaries in China will exceed the minimum wage in Taiwan by the end of the year. Media commentators said this means that salaries will have to be increased from the current levels of 2,200 yuan (US$350) to 4,000 yuan (US$630), a rise of 82%.
Sources now claim that Gou declared at a function on May 16 that simply catching up to Taiwanese wages is not enough, and that monthly salaries for workers in China should be doubled to 4,400 yuan (US$690) by the end of 2013. If the claim proves to be true, this would be Foxconn’s fourth announced salary hike in China in the last two years. It would also represent a near five-fold salary increase for the company’s 1 million workers on the mainland since 2010.
Which is what we’re seeing in China, an industrial revolution: thus the wages of the workers are rising.
在富士康超过百万人的劳工里，人数最为庞大的就是基层作业员。20岁左右的群体，大多数只读完初中、中专便外出打工。在富士康里，依靠每日简单而重复的劳作，他们每个月能挣到2500元左右的收入。
2013:Working by Foxconn China, with average age of 20, with little education, makes about 400 to 700 USD per month, that’s not that bad at this moment, considering the purchasing power in China is much higher than that in USA per dollar.
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东莞工厂打工妹：这个月要多加点班，周末也不休息了，正常上班，争取这个月拿到5000元工资，下个月回家过年。
Trying to make 5,000 Yuan in December ($730)
https://www.toutiao.com/a6500048352674054670/
With no or low education, people cannot expect to make a lot of money per month.
Average 3,500 Yuan ($500) is really not bad for some one with no education.
一年中，一月份加班只有28个小时，当然工资全年最低一次，实发工资2586元。
2月份全年工资最好的一次，加班总计86个小时，拿到实发工资4275元。
3月却只拿到3461元工资
https://www.toutiao.com/a6589767993427755527/
2018
富士康员工曝光工资单，引发热议，看看他们每个月拿多少工资
A young girl, who overworked 86 hours in February, made an income of 4275 yuan ($600), but don’t forget, with $600, you have a far bigger purchasing power in China iso USA.
富士康解决了很多人的就业问题，工资也不拖欠。员工的工资，有基本工资和绩效工资构成，而绩效工资的得来，就看你有多勤奋了。可以看出这位内部员工晒出的工资单中，1月份，只挣了2586块钱。但是在2月份的时候，因为加班了86个小时，所以到手工资，就是4275块钱。加班，加班，加班！这就像是咒语一样，存在每个富士康人心里。他们用更多的劳动换取想要的工资。这份工资单一出，网友们都发表了自己的看法。
https://www.toutiao.com/a6593675019530797571/
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