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Originally Posted by TheOmegaZoid
These would be the managers I assume. So one iphone or android phone costs more than a months salary. Sure in Taipei everyones got them, but not so in China.
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500 US is the take-home pay for a local assembly line worker in a first rate factory in Southern China. You can't even get a custodian for less than 300.
And yes, an iphone is still a little more than a month's salary, but they buy them. Status symbols are extremely important to the Chinese.
And I repeat, nobody goes to China for cheap labor today. They did 20 years ago. Most of them have already left for greener pastures during the last 3 years, or are about to.