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Originally Posted by Amy Lee;3183215;
One hour's worth of minimum wage buys less than 2 gallons of gas after taxes, that's pretty crazy.
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Very poorly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amy Lee;3183215;
One hour's worth of minimum wage buys less than 2 gallons of gas after taxes, that's pretty crazy.
Exactly! I'm so pissed that i have no other offers. I'd have to work full time(9hrs) just to make 'something'.Quote:
Originally Posted by gabriel;3183598;
Damn. I remember when I started working, minimum wage was $3.35 an hour. At least that bought 4-5 gallons of gas back then. :lolQuote:
Originally Posted by brunette trixie;3183710;
My first job, in 1977, paid $2.40/hour, which was a nickel over minimum wage.
I had a brush with death this week--I told my sister that her new grandson, like all babies, looks like Winston Churchhill. The generalized observation has been made by many people besides me, but try telling her that!
My first job in 1975 paid me $2.50 an hour because I was a "Supervisor", otherwise it would have been $2.20 an hour and my standard of living was probably on par what it is today, that is what inflation has done.
How did y'all get such high paying jobs to start? I started my first job working for my cousin at a gas station making $50 a week for a 68 hour work week. :eek After a couple of weeks he started paying me $1 per hour. This was in '67, the summer before my senior year of high school. In Sept '68 my next job paid me $1.25 per hour. Yep, movin' on up baby. :up
I think my first jobs (that weren't babysitting) in 1976 paid $2.35 per hour. The first was as a maid at Mini Price Motor Inn (yes, it was as bad as you think) in summer; then when I started college I worked in the UWM library. The following school year, though, I got a job as a tutor with the university's Learning Skills Department -- that one was a whopping $3.00 per hour! (the highest that they paid student employees at the time) But at that time, it was enough to pay rent for half of a fairly good-sized two-bedroom apartment (not far from where Gabriel lives) and all my other expenses, including tuition and books.
Then during second semester of that year, I was offered a job as a paraprofessional aide at the German /French Immersion School and made a whopping $7.50 per hour with medical and dental insurance. It felt like big bucks then! Times have sure as hell changed!
I can't remember what my first job paid, but I can remember the first time I broke $1000 a month. Boy did I feel RICH!!! Seriously. I thought it meant, I was in the big leagues. :lol This was over 20 years ago and I thought I had really made it when I hit that $1000 a month mark in my income. Of course, my expenses took over half that amount per month, but still, it was a significant mark for me. Now I think about how I felt and how much everything costs today and it's just funny that I was so impressed with that amount.
I made 50 cents an hour babysitting. That was in the early '70s and I was in high demand so able to charge those high fees.
:blush When I started babysitting, I was making great money! I started at about 5 bucks an hour and it kept going up from there. I think it was because I was in such high demand.