I’m not convinced that shirts made here have to cost $100 bucks
Wages are vastly over rated when you study their impact on the actual cost of a product.
If a person makes $15.00 an hour and makes 1 shirt, that adds $15.00 to the cost of the shirt.
In truth, the shirt is probably put together in a manner that produces five shirts per hour.
The plant costs are more too, but I’m not buying the idea that a decent profit on volume can’t be made for $30 bucks a shirt.
“I’m not buying the idea that a decent profit on volume can’t be made for $30 bucks a shirt.”
Then you should go into the shirtmaking business in the US. I would love to buy a good-quality, US-made shirt for $30. I can’t find one.
As for labor costs in US manufacturing, they have declined dramatically in the past 25 years because of increased productivity, but they still comprise over 50% of all costs:
http://blogs.piie.com/realtime/?p=4843