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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 2709548, member: 77814&quot;]I helped an auto company review costs of employee manufacturing costs per hour including benefits in one of our US plants, UK, Argentina, Australia, Mexico, etc and how it would compare to setting up a plant in China.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t recall the specific numbers, but generally including benefits back in 2004ish it was something like</p><p>US $34 an hour including benefits</p><p>Mexico $17 / hr</p><p>China $0.55 /hr</p><p><br /></p><p>They made a plant in China and dealt with the 6mth projections required to get the product to the US shore.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then we looked at CAD operations and compared pricing to India CAD operators.</p><p><br /></p><p>These cost/benefit analysis included potential problems such as quality, etc.&nbsp; Which even when identified especially for the India CAD operators having low maturity in experience they decided to move some (and later many) of those operations to India too.</p><p><br /></p><p>I recall friends in the textile industry losing their jobs a decade early due to these pricing variances, and tons of other industries.&nbsp; Getting labor jobs back is going to be difficult unless the American people want to pay more for products, which seems to not be the case.</p><p><br /></p><p>The best bet, is to do what China did.&nbsp; Require manufacturing to be localized for access to the market including signing over patents and stuff.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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