Salary of Samsung Galaxy S workers push the iPhone worker III
KOMPAS.com : Samsung Galaxy S III has ordered as 9 million units worldwide. To manufacture the device, Samsung is rumored that they employ more than 75,000 workers.
ExtremeTech trying to do simple calculations to determine the number of workers who will present the Samsung Galaxy S III. The media assume Galaxy S III energy production will be the same with the iPhone of Apple, specifically the iPhone 4S.
A Foxconn worker explained that every Apple production line will manufacture around 3,500 units of iPhone 4S on a daily basis. Within a month, 640 workers Foxconn will be capable of producing about 84,000 iPhone.
While Samsung has had 60 lines of production with a total of 38,400 employees. The general employee is capable of producing 5 million units of Samsung Galaxy S III.
If you want to produce as of 9 million units of Samsung Galaxy S III, the Samsung stay only double the number of workers, which is approximately 76,800 workers.
However, Samsung better luck than Apple to buy components from other suppliers. Korea of the South from this vendor already has a factory replacement parts for Galaxy S III, for example, a screen OLED, processor, RAM and Exynos to NAND flash.
Highest salary
Use a greater number of employees for this Samsung of course have an impact on the cost of salaries of the employees. In fact, salaries for Korea of the South is higher than the salary of employees in China.
Foxconn workers are producing iPad in China was only about 8 dollars per tablet, the iPad. While South Korea workers must pay $34 per tablet.
While bulanannya wages reach $400 in China compared to the $2,000 workers of Korea in the South. This means that Samsung will have the cost of spending a greater salary.
If really an order of 9 million units were sold, the Samsung Galaxy S III will be the increased demand in the world of gadgets. It will compete with Microsoft's sales amounted to 8 million Kinect units in just 60 days. Can Samsung do it?