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Bureau of Labor Statistics includes Chinese worker compensation costs in International Comparison.

The total hourly cost of a production worker in the United states rose slightly last year to $23.65, but that doesn't come close to the hourly compensation costs for a worker in China, according to the Foreign Labor Statistics division of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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For the first time, BLS is including China in its annual series on "International Comparisons of Hourly Compensation Costs for Production Workers in Manufacturing." It is doing so because of growing interest in China's labor costs. But since China does not break out compensation costs for production workers, BLS provides the average total compensation for all workers, which is $0.67 per hour, ...

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