Salary
Average Salary: $25,000
Expected Lifetime Earnings: $1,000,000
Not only do you not have a union, but no one seems to be really tracking the salaries of the world's tea plantation owners. (Maybe it's because there basically are none.) The few tea planters out there in the world, though, are doing well for themselves. Because you're likely living in a rural part of a developing country, your money stretches pretty far.
In other words, you're definitely eating a round three meals a day and definitely living in the nicest housing available on the plantation. But when you venture beyond the plantation walls, depending on the currency you trade in, you might not be an international tea mogul.
As a side note, there are pretty definite figures on the salaries of the people picking the tea. Many workers in heavy tea-producing countries like Malawi and India make below or well below the World Bank's poverty line (which by the way, is $2 a day). And even Indonesian workers that make well above the poverty line still make way, way, way less compared to the average Indonesian worker.
Just thought we'd mentioned some of these stats in case, you know, you like to think about the ethics involved in what you're trying to accomplish. And if you think, well, I'll just pay more, keep in mind that wages from one plantation to the next pretty much track the minimum wage in the country.