About $12/hr. I did that once upon a time as a temporary job in San Antonio. Or maybe it was Austin. I forget the name of the company, but it was mostly small-b

About $12/hr. I did that once upon a time as a temporary job in San Antonio. Or maybe it was Austin. I forget the name of the company, but it was mostly small-batch PCBs carrying a hefty price tag. Throughput was probably 1 board a minute if you include loading, screening, letting the machine do it's thing, moving to the baking machine (I forget the name, but you know, the conveyor oven thing that melts the solder) and passing along to the test/QA benches. I think these were mostly for Telecom vendors, but it was just small batch PCB production for hire stuff. I've got to believe the labor costs were a small fraction of the overall business costs. Just one component could be $50, so the inevitable loss of the occasional part, or a PCB that didn't pass QA would cost 10X more than the labor costs for the entire hour it was produced in.