If you are a contractor looking to get in on the reconstruction of Iraq, you are going to have to pay "$80,000 a year and often topping $100,000-- that Halliburton's engineering and construction unit, Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) pays to the truck drivers, construction workers, office workers, and other laborers it recruits from the United States".
Now to bring that labor cost down, you can go to someplace like the Philippines and hire a worker for far less, such as a "35-year-old father of two anticipated $615 a month - including overtime. For a 40-hour work week, that would be just over $3 an hour. But for the 12-hour day, seven-day week that Soliman says was standard for him and many contractor employees in Iraq, he actually earned $1.56 an hour".
Furthermore, these "Third Country Nationals" (TCN's) were often faced with abysmal and dangerous working conditions including poor food, inadequate housing and medical care, and mortar rounds.
