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$28/hour before overtime for a heavy equipment operator in battery factory (read: blink and kill someone) seems perfectly reasonable to me. He started at $10.7
by ahi 17y ago
$28/hour before overtime for a heavy equipment operator in battery factory (read: blink and kill someone) seems perfectly reasonable to me.
He started at $10.76/hour in 1983. His hourly pay increased all of 6 inflation adjusted dollars ($10.76 in 1983 = $22.13 in 2007) over the past quarter century.
- jdminhbg 17y ago$28/hour would work out to $56k/year, before overtime. He'd have to work a lot of overtime to get to $100k.
- ahi 17y agoFrom the WSJ article: "'It's sad,' says Mr. Crane, who had been earning about $28 per hour at Delco, before overtime." He could get to $100k relatively easily with a 60 hour work week which is perfectly reasonable. $28x2000 + $28x1.5x1000 gets him to $98k, and holidays usually mean better than time and a half.