See MCAS programmers at $9/h.
> Increasingly, the iconic American planemaker and its
> subcontractors have relied on temporary workers making
> as little as $9 an hour to develop and test software,
> often from countries lacking a deep background in
> aerospace -- notably India.
Found it. Was Bloomberg. Here is the old thread.
Boeing has literally relocated their plant operations cross-country in the past in order to break the workers' unions.
Just think about how much pressure they can exert on a non-union profession like software development.
E.g. just to use a random example, Russian statistics show that the average pay of an architect is something like $800/month in many regions - in some more, in some less, but definitely well withing $9/hour; and for doctors in regions outside Moscow it's something roughly similar; Moscow seems to get something like 2200$/month in the average statistics so that's more than $9/hour if they're working sane hours.