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To: GST who wrote (152707)	2/8/2003 12:34:09 PM
From: Bill Harmond	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Your Chinese economic miracle: The workers are paid piece- rates with each worker's productivity and therefore wage calculated by her team leader. The legal minimum wage in the districts covered in this report is US 33 Cents per hour. The factories pay the workers monthly wage RMB 450($54.8/176hour), but RMB90 is deducted from the salary for living expenses. Before 2000, the deducted amount was RMB60. After Dongguan municipal government adjusted the minimum wage standard from RMB400 to RMB450 in July 2001, Yuyuan factories had to increase the salary to RMB450, but the deducted living expenses increased too. Therefore, the real wage of workers hasn’t increased. The deducted dorm fee increased from RMB15 to 45 too. Medical fee RMB15. Other fee RMB5. The total amount of deducted fees is RMB 155. Generally speaking, a modeling group that has 95 workers produces 550,000 pairs of shoes per month--it reaches 700-800,000 during busy seasons. On average, a worker's wage is US 33 cents per hour. If the cost for food and medicine is deducted, the worker actually gets US24.4 Cents per hour. Using these figures as a basis, a worker will take home just US$2.44 for a 10-hour shift. This translates to US$14.65 per week, US$62.4 per month and US$748.8 per year. chinalaborwatch.com