Mobile lands contract for $600 million, 1,000-worker plant to build Airbus

[dixiegrrrrl]

Airbus has approved plans to construct an aircraft assembly plant in Mobile and will announce the landmark project at a news conference Monday along the city’s downtown waterfront.

The details are astounding: A sprawling, $600 million factory at the Brookley Aeroplex that will assemble A319, A320 and A321 aircraft and employ 1,000 full-time workers at full capacity, according to an internal briefing document obtained by the Press-Register.

More than half of that capital investment is slated for construction, which will commence in 2013 and create an estimated 2,500 jobs over a two-year construction phase. The balance of the money is budgeted for tools, machinery, infrastructure and training.

Aircraft assembly is scheduled to begin in 2015, with first deliveries from the Mobile plant in 2016. Airbus anticipates the plant will produce 40 to 50 aircraft per year by 2017.
http://blog.al.com/live/2012/06/airbus_working.html#incart_river_default

Wonder what the hourly wage will be?

[pinto]

1. Construction - Avg. Hr. wage (national) - $25.75

I assume Alabama's average would be in the lower 50%.

Not a clue what airline industry jobs pay...

http://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. I know that in my town, 8.50 an hour is considered "good"

That is what is paid to city street workers, and I think our local police make around the same, maybe as high as 9.00 an hour.
Figure about 20 K a year here as a "good wage"
which really sucks because that is what I was paid in 1990 with a Master's Degree.
isn't that pitiful? Wages have been stagnant for 20 years.
'Course, cost of housing pretty low around here...one small blessing.

[IamK]

3. Boeing started line workers @ $16 in SC, I think they max around $22.

Boeing in Washington has an average of about $26 due to tenure...