I'm curious if you've seen anything about Apple's equivalent. My impressions is basically every mass data set has an army of low paid workers somewhere, but maybe not and specifics are always interesting.
As a former Apple employee, I disagree that Apple is that different- YMMV depending on the group of course, but there are people who are overworked and underpaid drinking the kool-aid, and there are plenty of people underworking who wouldn't be able to get a similar job at a big company. I do agree that they tend to compensate you in brand value/equity instead of top of market salaries though :D
The above data is only of engineers hired using TripleByte platform. I saw only a handful of open positions with Apple.
The data is based on the type of companies uses the platform to hire which probably doesn't involve big paying companies such as Googles, FB, Uber etc
tl;dr -- retail jobs pay low wages, Apple included.
What I took away from it? Apple is paying market rates for its semi-skilled employees in a high unemployment market. The market is the problem, not the employer.
Apart from that, in Google most (core) jobs are software related, in Apple not so much (there's hardware, design, logistics, manufacturing specialists - even if the bulk is @ Foxconn and similar contractors).
Even if we consider software jobs only, I believe the bulk @ Apple is working in OSX/iOS, not to mention iWork, Final Cut, etc and not directly in Cloud infrastructure.
In fact, Apple has lots of open jobs for exactly the kind of low-level engineers this thread is about and you can find the team managers posting about them on Twitter.
There are people who make under $10 an hour assembling Apple computers in California. I teach at a community college and some of my students are employed at the factory. It's interesting how Apple gets a complete pass on their wages but companies that make a fraction of Apple's profits like Walmart or McDonald's are constantly criticized for how they pay their employees.
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