wow, a whopping $70 a month
Chinese Workers Pay for Wal-Mart's Low Prices
Retailer Squeezes Its Asian Suppliers to Cut Costs
By Peter S. Goodman and Philip P. Pan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, February 8, 2004; Page A01
"In the city of Dongguan in southern Guangdong province, where Wal-Mart suppliers are concentrated, a 27-year-old worker who gave her name as Miss Qin complained that she can rarely afford meat with her $75-per-month wages at Kaida Toy Co. "Every day we eat vegetables, mostly we eat vegetables," she said, leaning over a plate of fried carrots in a dingy restaurant."
http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/en/web/article.php?article_id=50031
Our minimum national wage is about 1000 per month. I suspect that 70 dollars in china is roughly equivalent. It also means that the lowest wage chinese makes about 1/10 of what a lowest wage american makes.