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May 2010

Labor costs in India’s organized manufacturing sector

Jessica R. Sincavage, Carl Haub, O. P. Sharma

Compensation costs in India?s organized manufacturing sector were 91 cents per hour for all employees in 2005; this amounted to about 3 percent of hourly labor costs in the U.S. manufacturing sector, but was above BLS estimates of labor costs in China.

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