I heard factories in my small town are paying $600.00 wk. T or F?

Question

It is hard for me to beleive that in my small town in the lower part of michigan is earning $600.00 wk. Someone told me this the other day. I think a person would have to be working in these factories an awful long time to make that kind of money. If this is the case I will go to work in one of these factories. Does anyone know this to be true?

Answer 1

Depends on the town, the employer, whether it's union or not, whether it's skilled or not...

My last personal experience with factory work had me making $2.85 an hour in the mid-70's. But my daughter worked at a Romeo MI factory a few years ago and made $9 an hour. A union job would have paid much better.

Also remember that a weekly $$ amount might involve steady overtime - for example, my $2.85 job was for 58 hours a week. With time-and-a-half for the last 18 hours, the weekly pay came off sounding a lot better than the hourly.

Doing some quick calculations, a 58-hour week (40 hours straight pay, 18 hours at time-and-a-half) would get you $600 if you were paid about $9 an hour. So, yes, very possible.

And $600 a week doesn't go very far any more.

Good luck.

Answer 2

It all depends on what the factory does. Some factories pay pretty well down here in Iowa we have plenty of factories where people are making anywhere from $10- 18.00 /hour. Some factories have union connections and people are making over $20/hour. So it may be possible that the factory you speak of is paying very well.

Answer 3

That is only $15 an hour very much not unheard of, and basically a living wage, not great, but doable.