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Maquiladora Facts & Figures
- Company personnel rented $4,816 cars. By multiplying this figure by the average number of days rented (3) the total is $14,448 car days.
The average rental cost for a mid-size vehicle per day is $35.55. Multiply this figure by the total car days (14,448), it can be concluded that $513,626 was injected into McAllen economy in 1997.
- $3,010,765 was spent on airline tickets for company travel.
- $15,439,880 was spent on services and supplies in the McAllen MSA.
- 58.8 percent of component parts, materials
and supplies were source in-house
- 1,012 children attended school in the McAllen MSA from maquiladora families living in the U.S.
- 19,713 children attended school in the Reynosa
area from maquildaroa families living in Reynosa.
- 44,120 trucks were in-bound to maquiladoras
- 47,580 trucks were out-bound from maquiladoras
- 7,958,258 air-freight pounds were in-bound to maquiladoras
- 6,766,190 air-freight pounds were out-bound from maquiladoras
- 1,296 maquiladora company employees live in the United States.
- Maquiladora personnel in FY (Fiscal Year) 1996-97 purchased 408 homes. By multiplying this figure by the sales price of a home in
McAllen $93,968 , it can be estimated that $38,338,944 in McAllen home sales were generated by the maquiladora industry during 1997.
- 56,232 people in Reynosa are employed by maquiladoras.
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Maquiladora personnel purchased 88 new company automobiles. By multiplying 88 by the average cost of a car($20,000), the survey shows that $1,760,000 was injected into the economy by the means of car purchases.
- Total U.S. payroll is $59,378,363. Assuming that each U.S. employee spends 70% of his/her income on living expenses, it is estimated that $41,564,854 was injected into McAllen's economy by U.S. maquiladora
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