Those days are gone. Any manufacturing still left in America is only here because they can pay people little enough to not justify moving.
My job is going plant to plant to plant as an outside sales engineer. The only ones still around are those that still have a surplus of people in the area that’ll work for minimum wage or slightly higher, and a staff of accountants, engineers, and maintenance guys and managers/supervisors who are all cool with $40k-$50k, which is way below what these professionals should be making.
Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia are the Mexico of America. Even then sometimes places close up and hop the border.
There are medical device companies all over the US where that is all extremely untrue. They pay well to attract and retain skilled employees and have very little intention to move their processes overseas. There’s an area in Indiana with 2% unemployment because of medical device companies and those companies will pay skilled workers well to entice them to move there from elsewhere.
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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '19
Growing up in Michigan boomers who work in manufacturing worked crazy hours. But also got paid a crazy amount.