Two shifts (one full day) can produce 300,000 iPad camera modules.

325 people assemble one iPad, taking five days to do it.

10,000 unibody iPad shells can be produced per hour

One person cleans the burrs from these shells by hand, 3,000 per shift

Each shift lasts 12 hours, with two hour-long meal breaks

An average meal costs a worker 70 cents

Workers take a siesta back on the line before returning to work

Workers live in dorms, eight to a room

There are lots of extra-curricular activities, including sports and study (the language lab is stocked with iMacs)

iPhone takes 24 hours to be built.

Of that 6 to 8 hours is spent in “burn-in” to install and test the software and components automatically.

In the ABC report the wage of workers on the line is given as $1.78/hr. 17 hours of labor input would imply $30 labor cost per iPhone.