Tesla To Offer $25 Average Hourly Wage To Gigafactory Employees

Tesla is set to offer an average of $25/hour for future employees at its Gigafactory battery-pack production facility in Nevada.

Valuewalk reports the figure comes from Economic Development Authority for Western Nevada chief Mike Kazmierski, who adds that the average wage — set to exceed those given to new employees of other automakers, suppliers, and Tesla's own workers on the factory floor in California — is helping to push the state's minimum wage from between $10 and $12 in 2012, to $12 and $15 now.

The breakdown of the average is as follows:

• $22.79: the minimum for 4,250 Gigafactory workers on the factory floor
• $27.88: the minimum for 820 technicians tasked with managing equipment and quality
• $41.83: the minimum for engineering and senior staff

Though Tesla says it never claimed it would pay Gigafactory employees $25/hour via a statement to AutoblogGreen — noting that its projected wages "were informed by regional wage trends" — University of California professor and labor economist Harley Shaikin said the automaker was doing this not only "to attract the best and brightest," but to keep unions at bay through higher compensation.

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