The average cost of living for an American [edit]. 1  $20,194 per person per year according to Bureau of Labor Statistics (value given divided by 2.5 average household size ('consumer unit') - [1].
Their annual salaries vary according to industry and place of employment. Concrete finishers made a mean annual $39,370, with the lowest-paid 10 percent earning $23,180 yearly, and the highest-paid 10 percent making $62,600 per year.
In China, new workers are illegally forced to pay one month's salary as a deposit which is forfeited if they do not work for a whole year. 75% of Indonesian workers will quit within a year. In Vietnam the average worker is paid about $0.20/hour, or $1.60/day.The cost of eating is reportedly $2.10/day. Although this figure is above the minimum wage, Nike's subcontractors do not even pay that.ike s track record. So how do you sell a shoe for $180 that cost just $5 labor to make? Nike's grand strategy is quite simple-first, enter developing nations whose people are desperate for work because they are kept in poverty by brutal dictatorships.