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GM has cut its payroll drastically, by 45.8 percent in the U.S. alone since 2000. In fact, GM is far from the largest employer in the industry. With 252,000 employees worldwide, GM ranks fifth overall behind Volkswagen (373,400 employees,) Renault/Nissan (316,121 employees,) Toyota (316,121 employees) and Daimler (272,382 employees). Yet GM sold more vehicles worldwide last year than any other automaker.
(From http://gmfactsandfiction.com/ )
From what I gather in research, in the US that is down from 133000 hourly in 2000, to about 72000 now, and while I am not sure of salary numbers, I say they are proportionally the same.