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Average salary is probably around $100k. Even the techs with high school educations can make in the range of $40-60 an hour and generous overtime. >On a simila

Average salary is probably around $100k. Even the techs with high school educations can make in the range of $40-60 an hour and generous overtime. >On a similar tangeant, how are these able to compete with similar manufacturing done in Asia or Africa? Because it is all high skill labor. Techs that are able to strip down a 10 MM machine and identify the source of sub micron particule contamination are worth their weight in gold.

pwdisswordfish0 6y ago
They may be costing the company the equivalent of $40–60/hr, but more realistically, techs are starting at < $20/hr and have to spend years on the payroll of a third-party staffing company.
- barbacoa 6y ago
  That's a good point, $40-60/hr is the pay for seniors level techs. Entry level techs are making much less and are employed through staffing companies.
mech422 6y ago
>>Average salary is probably around $100k. Even the techs with high school educations can make in the range of $40-60 an hour and generous overtime. Do you have a source for that? I'm surprised as when I contracted at the Intel fab in PHX, the workers in the actual fab were not making anything close to that. Management maybe, but not actual line workers. The standing joke was "they were working for the stock"...
- JohnJamesRambo 6y ago
  Were they working for the stock?
- didibus 6y ago
  I found this which has a manufacturing plant section. No idea how accurate: https://www.zippia.com/intel-careers-6055/salary/#by-job-title https://www.zippia.com/intel-careers-6055/salary/#by-job-tit...
  - mech422 6y ago
    Hmm - that's interesting. If the "Intel Plant/Manufacturing Salaries" section is true, process technician and production operator (which I guess are the people that run the line?) make quite a bit below $100K. Oddly enough, it seems like the software jobs are better paid then the hardware ones? Thanks for the link!
    - sgerenser 6y ago
      How is that odd? Software salaries have been outpacing hardware ones for at least the past 1-2 decades. When the big tech companies are paying over $100k for software developers fresh out of college, supply and demand is probably forcing this state of affairs.
      - mech422 6y ago
        I just would have figured a hardware company would be focusing on the hardware personnel. After all, there are plenty of places that don't pay FAANG level salaries for software developers. I still regularly see < $60K software jobs advertised from smaller companies.
baybal2 6y ago
In Taiwan, an average semi technician salary is $38-$40k a year

pwdisswordfish0 6y ago

They may be costing the company the equivalent of $40–60/hr, but more realistically, techs are starting at < $20/hr and have to spend years on the payroll of a third-party staffing company.

barbacoa 6y ago
That's a good point, $40-60/hr is the pay for seniors level techs. Entry level techs are making much less and are employed through staffing companies.

mech422 6y ago

>>Average salary is probably around $100k. Even the techs with high school educations can make in the range of $40-60 an hour and generous overtime. Do you have a source for that? I'm surprised as when I contracted at the Intel fab in PHX, the workers in the actual fab were not making anything close to that. Management maybe, but not actual line workers. The standing joke was "they were working for the stock"...

JohnJamesRambo 6y ago
Were they working for the stock?
didibus 6y ago
I found this which has a manufacturing plant section. No idea how accurate: https://www.zippia.com/intel-careers-6055/salary/#by-job-title https://www.zippia.com/intel-careers-6055/salary/#by-job-tit...
- mech422 6y ago
  Hmm - that's interesting. If the "Intel Plant/Manufacturing Salaries" section is true, process technician and production operator (which I guess are the people that run the line?) make quite a bit below $100K. Oddly enough, it seems like the software jobs are better paid then the hardware ones? Thanks for the link!
  - sgerenser 6y ago
    How is that odd? Software salaries have been outpacing hardware ones for at least the past 1-2 decades. When the big tech companies are paying over $100k for software developers fresh out of college, supply and demand is probably forcing this state of affairs.
    - mech422 6y ago
      I just would have figured a hardware company would be focusing on the hardware personnel. After all, there are plenty of places that don't pay FAANG level salaries for software developers. I still regularly see < $60K software jobs advertised from smaller companies.

baybal2 6y ago

In Taiwan, an average semi technician salary is $38-$40k a year