Earlier this year, Tesla raised wages for its workers in the United States. Business Insider reporters obtained internal documents that show how much Elon Musk pays his workers at the electric car maker’s factories.

The filings show that Tesla workers earn between $22 and $39 an hour, with the company dividing them into seven pay levels based on the locations of the factories they work in and the cost of living in each U.S. state where they work.

For example, workers at Tesla’s plants in Austin, Texas, and Sparks, Nevada, earn the lowest hourly wages, while workers at the Fremont and Palo Alto, California plants earn the highest. Tesla’s pay scale largely complies with the mandatory minimum wage laws in various US states.

In Texas it is $7.25 an hour, in Nevada it is $10.25 and in California it is $16 an hour.

How much do Tesla factory workers get paid?

At Tesla’s Fremont electric car factory, Tesla’s Level 1 workers are paid $25.25 and Level 7 workers are paid $35.50. At the lowest-paying businesses, a level 1 earns $22 an hour, while a level 7 earns $33.

In addition to these 7 pay levels, Tesla has an eighth divided into two slightly different pay groups. The top group earns $39 an hour in California factories, while the bottom earns $37.25. At enterprises with the lowest wages, they are 34.5 and 33 dollars, respectively.

“Cyber ​​​​Wallet” is Tesla’s bonus system that employees can earn if they meet various performance criteria.

Workers in the U.S. auto industry earned an average of $28 last year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Tesla has more than 140,000 employees in total, most of them in the United States, although it has an important “Gigafactory” in China, in Shanghai, and in 2022 it opened one in Germany, near Berlin.