Let’s Consider the dollars and cents folks and it really adds up:
* Total pay and benefits for a full-time worker for the Big Three until recently averaged about $140,000 a year.
* The Foreign transplants? Just $80,000.
* Add in an estimated $2,000-plus per car for retiree health care and pensions for the Big Three, and the cost gap is huge.
* Two years ago, the Center for Automotive Research estimated that for every job created by a foreign transplant, 6.1 jobs were lost by the Big Three - many of them in Detroit.
“Let’s Consider the dollars and cents folks and it really adds up:”
Yep, I read somewhere recently, that upon graduation over 50% of Michigan and Michigan State grad’s leave the state for greener pastures. Receiving states should thank Michigan tax payers for these highly educated free assets. Poor, poor, pitiful Michigan....