Radio announcer/disk jockey at 15. Earned the minimum wage for 1973: $1.65 per hour.
Shortly after I turned 16, I was hired to work behind the counter in a news-stand/smoke shop. Imagine a 16-year old selling cigars and cigarettes. It was a small shop, when I was scheduled I was there all by myself, opening up weekend mornings, closing up at night, and most days after school. Fifty cents an hour.
Before that, I was a pinsetter at a bowling alley (which was still done manually), ten cents a line, but that was casual after school, assigned to an alley as needed with a bunch of other kids, so not a “real job”.
First full-time job was at a canning factory, loading cases of peas and corn onto pallettes, $1.04 an hour, during summer vacation from college.
Like Mr. Downtown above, the next summer I was a radio announcer and disc jockey.