In Foxconn’s Longhua factory, workers are often subjected to long hours and nearly no pay. Foxconn employs 500,000 workers, according to a cnet.com article, each working “six days a week...up to 12 hours a day at the plant” (Source 1). The nytimes states that “many workers earn less than $17 a day” with nearly no possibility for overtime actually getting paid. One worker “says he was promised double pay for overtime hours but got only regular pay” (Source 3).

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Working out the yearly pay for these underpaid and overworked employees, they would earn just $5,304. If the Longhua factory were to be moved to Wisconsin and exclusively employ legal American workers earning minimum wage, an assembly line worker would earn $7.25 an hour, nearly $6 an hour more than their real life counterparts. Yearly, Wisconsin Foxconn workers would earn $33,176, about $28,000 more than workers in the Chinese factory. Put quite simply, if the factory would be moved from China to Wisconsin, production line labor costs would go from roughly $2.7 billion a year to $16.6 billion. This is all just assuming that the workers are getting paid by Wisconsin minimum wage.

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If they were getting paid closer to what electronics assembly line workers get paid on average in the US, $11.52/hour (Source 4), they would be earning $829 a week, close to $43,130 a year. This would bump production line costs up to $21.6 billion yearly.