for $15 a day at 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. What were Lai’s hourly, weekly, and annual gross pay?

Question

Lai Xiaodong, a 22-year-old college-educated man, accepted a job at Foxconn Technology (where the iPad was being produced for Apple) in Chengdu, China, for $15 a day at 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. A company perk included company housing in dorms for the 70,000 employees. It was common for 20 people to be assigned to the same three-bedroom apartment. What were Lai’s hourly, weekly, and annual gross pay?

Answer 1

Vince,

 

Weekly is $15 times 6 days worked. $90.

If he has no holidays and works all 52 weeks, then his annual pay is 52 times weekly pay calculated above.

52 times 90 is 4,680. Apologies for my earlier answer.

Jim Gibbs