I work at a bottling plant, and my job is to mix product, which is then sent to be bottled and packed for shipping. We had around 31000 bottles filled and packed today, and the lowest price I found for this product online was 3.29$.
If you did the math, i helped blend almost 102,000$ in revenue to the company.
I work for 13$/hr, which if I worked 40 hours each week, will net me 27,040$ a year (before taxes, which takes 20% of my pay, so I really earn 21,632$ a year; also, without considering overtime pay).
I need to work almost 5 years (after taxes) just to earn what my company will make from the 31000 bottles worth of product I helped make to sale…
And this was just one day, in a five-days a week job, 52 work weeks a year. In a year, that revenue (considering it was the same product each workday) nets the company more than 26.5 million$ in revenue a year.
I don't see myself living long enough to ever come close to earning that on 13$/hr…