Do American auto workers have an inferiority complex? VW workers get paid $67 an hour in Germany

[Xithras]

13. Yep, you have to index it to something in order to really compare it.

In Tennessee, the minimum wage for auto workers is 7.25 an hour.
In Puebla Mexico (the main North American VW factory), the minimum wage for auto workers is right around 35 cents an hour.
Germany does not have a minimum wage, so we can't really compare.

In the Tennessee VW plant, the average auto worker is paid $19.50 an hour, or a bit over 2.5 times minimum wage.
In the Puebla VW plant, the average auto worker is paid $1.88 an hour, or 5.4 times minimum wage.

Which means, when corrected against minimum wage, Mexican workers make more than twice as much as American workers.