Out of curiosity, who got the other $2?
Hmm. This would’ve been 2001, 2002, I think… $7 an hour, working in a musical instruments store.
$1.50/hr washing dishes in 1968. Got “laid off” after a couple of months when they found out I wasn’t old enough to work yet. Went to another place and made $1.35/hr until I was old enough to work, then went back to the first place.
When I went back to work at the first place, my schedule was 4:00pm Friday night until 4:00am Saturday morning, 4:00pm Saturday night 'til 4:00am Sunday morning, then 4:00pm Sunday night until 2:00am Monday morning.
34 hours per weekend. $51.00 before taxes.
Monday mornings at school were kind of a bitch.
$4.25/hr as a bookstore clerk in 1996. About a month after I started, the minimum wage(don’t remember if it was state or federal) went up to $4.75/hr. I remember feeling so rich…
Aside from paperboy, minimum wage as a supermarket cashier in 1969, which was probably about $1.30/hr.
I got a great job that summer as a doorman, which paid a princely $2.50/hr because it was union.
$50 for the summer as a CIT (Counselor in training)
1963 draftsman 1.65 an hour.
1965 summer job picking pineapples. $ 1.40 & 1/2 cents per hour. and actually the same job for the same pay the following year (I am not a quick learner).
$1.25 an hour working at Schoeneman’s, a men’s clothing warehouse and distribution center in Owings Mills, Maryland. This was 1965.
$400 a month (tax free) as a research assistant in grad school in 1973. I saved money on that also. First real job was $35 K a year with a PhD in 1980.
The music store owner. He felt he was quite generous in giving me more than half.
At one point he signed up two women to take lessons at the same time. He charged them a collective $6, of which I kept $4. That would have sucked had the students not been such a hoot.
Not counting babysitting ($5 an hour per kid), housecleaning for an elderly neighbor ($5 a week), and a paper route ($10 a week), $7/hour plus benefits after six months as a PBX operator, around 2000 or so. This was in Nevada, so no state taxes either. In retrospect, it wasn’t nearly as awful of a job as I’d thought at the time.
.85 an hour at the Tastee Freez in the summer of 1971. I did, however, get ice cream and pop free, plus one meal if I worked enough hours. If I wanted the more expensive ‘basket’ meal I had to pay half price for it. At the time I also babysat for .50 an hour.
No, I tell a lie. I forgot the job gathering eggs my freshman year of high school, '69/'70. I think that was 1.00 per hour, a couple of days a week. I didn’t mind it too much at the time, but looking back I’m not sure it was worth it.
My first job was the summer after my junior year of high school (1974). I was a production worker in a factory. I made $3.10 an hour which was well above minimum wage and way more than my friends were making at thier summer jobs. On top of that, I was working six or seven days a week for 8-9-10 hours a day. At time and a half over 8 hours per day or over 40 hours a week I was doing pretty good. I went back after my senior year and got into the union making a little under $11.00 per hour which was damn good money at the time. I’d still be there if the place hadn’t closed in the early eighties.
$2.10/ hour. 1974, summer job as a laborer for a general contractor. I spent it all on my sweetheart. We’re still together, so that investment worked out all right.
First job: $21 per hour. $400 living costs stipend.
The best thing about it? In Korea, where income tax is 3.3%!
$2 per hour washing dishes (by hand) at the local cafe four hours a day in 1977. This was a summer job…I went to another restaurant and waited tables for the next four years evenings and weekends throughout high school for $1.50 an hour plus tips.
My first real job out of school was as a cashier / stocker / general gofer at a small town Mom & Pop grocery for a whopping $3.65 an hour in 1981. I stayed there for a couple of years (and worked other jobs on the side) before moving on.
Thanks to whoever brought up inflation…
Bothers me when people say in shock “well gas used to cost me 56 cents!” or “You used to be able to get a decent meal for about a buck and a quarter!”
Well yeah… but you (and everyone you knew) only made 90 cents an hour back then… not 12 dollars as you do now, moron.
I think I made 6 bucks an hour, minimum wage at a gas station, in 2003… It might’ve been a bit less than that, I can’t remember.
Nope… I thought back a bit and that was 2002.
Well… hourly that was my first job… I worked at a camp from '99 until then for a lump sum of a few hundred dollars for several weeks hard work in the woods.
We obviously didn’t do it for the money… It was fun anyway and I had no bills, being 16 or so.
My first full time job was a mother’s helper, I worked my way through High School and got no wages, just room and board. I have supported my self since I was 13. It was not unusual in those days. My older sister worked for a family at the age of 10, she worked so we could get our house plastered she earned no money.
Monavis