Chinese workers earn a shared $8 for every iPad 2 they make: report

According to the Korea Daily, the Chinese factory workers that assemble the iPad 2 earn approximately $8, collectively, for every Apple tablet that rolls off the supply line. Eight bucks, as a point of reference, is less than two percent of the price of the cheapest iPad. It's also far less than the $34 per iPad 2 reportedly paid to factory workers in Korea. Assuming the report is correct, Chinese workers are getting shortchanged. And Apple is making out big: Apple rakes in a hefty $150 – 30 percent of the retail price – on every iPad 2 sold. So will Apple, which currently dominates the tablet market in the US, be affected by growing concern over the way its products are built? Hard to say. But Apple is certainly concerned enough to have begun hitting back at critics.