Hourly compensation costs, in U.S. dollars, for production workers and all employees in manufacturing, selected countries, 2006 Country or area Production workers All employees Mexico $2.75 $3.72 Taiwan 6.43 7.95 Singapore 8.55 13.55 Korea, Republic of 14.72 16.87 Japan 20.20 24.40 Canada 25.74 29.00 United States 23.82 29.60 United Kingdom 27.10 33.71 France 24.90 33.73 Germany 34.21 41.04