• fkn@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      That doesn’t mean that wage is respected in India… Particularly in areas where labor far exceeds demand.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t know where you’re getting the numbers on that conversion, 663 rs is equivalent to $8.08.

      From your same source, I rounded up to 16800 rs and divided by 2080 (40/hr weeks for 52 weeks), which came out to 8.08 rs/hr, which converts to $0.10/hr. it doesn’t seem to me that the daily wage is equivalent to the yearly wage. With a complete shot in the dark, it seems like that’s intentional as a poor attempt to dissuade the use of short term labor.

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        1 year ago

        That 16800 rs in the source is per month not per year. If it is 663 rs ($8.08) per day and lets say 10 hours of work per day then it is $8.08/10 ~= $0.80 per hour.

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        1 year ago

        I can’t access that website for whatever reason. Are you sure you aren’t looking at the minimum wage in India and they are looking at the minimum wage in New Dheli?

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        1 year ago

        From the link. 663 is the per day wage for unskilled worker. 663/8 ~82.88. And since dollar is trading at around 82 rupees. It’s about a dollar an hour. Again this the legal minimum wage. Lots of jobs especially in unorganized sector is below this but all workers in organised sector should be making above this.