Our Clothing Map

The Wage List

When we went shopping at Goodwill for items to use in our final project we had a total of $12 per group. With that budget in mind we then used this chart to figure out how much money we could spend on any given single item. The countries on this list represent the top 14 countries where our clothes are made as of July 7th. Everything we bought had to be made in one of these countries and we couldn't spend more money on any item than the daily minimum wage in the country where it was made.

 

Country

Minimum Wage/10 Hour Work Day

China

$12.10

USA

$72.50

India

$2.50

Italy

N/A

Vietnam

$2.90

Cambodia

$2.80

Guatemala

$12.00

Indonesia

$5.00

Bangladesh

$2.30

Philippines

$7.20

Mexico

$6.50

Turkey

$32.40

Honduras

$10.90

Haiti

$3.60

 

Where We've Been Wearing

Here's the results of our ongoing clothing map survey that we take every morning to sign-in for class. As of July 15, the top three countries where our clothes are "made" are China, Italy and India. We were a little surprised to see Italy in the top three, until we learned that many clothing factories in Italy are Chinese owned.