Compared with other rank-and-file employees, autoworkers used to be in a pay class of their own. Now they’re not. We look at how it unraveled, as UAW strike continues.
In the past year, workers in motor vehicle manufacturing earned about $32.70 an hour on average, or 30 percent less than they did at their 2003 peak, after adjusting for inflation. And that puts them somewhere in the middle of the pack among comparable workers — folks like production employees in manufacturing industries, nonmanagerial workers in service industries and construction workers.As we dug deeper, we found several reasons for autoworkers’ fall.
While autoworkers weren’t the only rank-and-file employees to see their pay drop in the past three decades, after adjusting for inflation, they were hit especially hard. In fact, they’ve seen their paychecks plunge further from 1993 to 2023 than any other of the 166 industries we tracked. An important caveat: The BLS data we’re using does not include bonuses such as the profit-sharing and quality-linked payments that UAW full-timers receive, typically once a year. Ford says those bonuses totaled $42,000 per worker over the past four years for its eligible UAW workforce. Temps don’t get them.
In 1994, the average rank-and-file worker in the private sector earned about half what autoworkers made. In the past year, the average nonmanagerial, private-sector worker made about $28.70 an hour, or 88 percent of what an autoworker gets.
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