Minimum wage?

[CG6468]

How much did you make in your first job?

In 1957 (before most of you were born) I was hired as an usher at a local theater, and I was paid $0.85/hour.

[DefiantSix]

How much did you make in your first job?

In 1957 (before most of you were born) I was hired as an usher at a local theater, and I was paid $0.85/hour.

First job in my chosen profession: I was draftsman with a security clearance, fresh out of high school for $3.65 an hour (in 1989).  I was not unhappy with the bargain.

[Chris_]

Holy cow.

My first job was at the amusement park that is no longer here.  I was paid minimum wage, $3.80 an hour.  That job was also the only time I've ever earned the minimum wage, and I did it for two summers in high school. 

[Dori]

I can't even remember.  I was a waitress in a coffee shop...I think it was about $2.00 hr + tips. 

[Dacabeti]

My first "official" (another word for legal) job was as a soda jerk at an old fashion Soda shop. I made $2.42 and hour which was the minimum wage to pay to students at the time.

My first job paid a lot more but I got tired of adverse benefits.

On my 17th Birthday when I joined the Army I got a huge pay raise to $4.25 an hour or &738.00 a month/ $8856 a year. No lie my very first check was $1.17. It gave me a complete belief in the Army Cadence they give you $100 and take back $99.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Mid-late 80's, I worked at a couple of department stores.  I think minimum wage was still $3.35, and I made at least a dollar over that.  But I was in high school & then college, just making spending money, not living off of it.  Never expected to stay at that level, and never did once I earned a college degree.

[CG6468]

The that $0.85/hour, I could have all the popcorn I could eat, too!

Plus two free passes, which my parents appraciated.

[NHSparky]

13-14 years old, busboy/dishwasher in a Mexican restaurant.

$1.50/hour (LESS than 1980 minimum wage, BTW.) and one meal per shift.

Oh, and I had to bike to/from work.

[Maxiest]

I had to go back and look at the Minimum wage rates.

I think it was 4.25 per and hour as a bag boy at Jitney Jungle in Jackson MS.

Of course I had been mowing lawns and raking leaves since I was about 8 years old when my parents told me if I wanted anything nicer than what they bought me I had to work for it.  So I worked for it.  I know interesting concept to the youth now.

[Splashdown]

Grocery store. 3.35 an hour.

[DumbAss Tanker]

$2 an hour in 1970.  Had about three jobs that year - farm labor, short stint at a pizza place that was opening which was mainly renovation (Kind of a bait and switch thing on me), and then painting and renovation work on another guy's house and farm.  All of it paid about the same.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

How much did you make in your first job?

In 1957 (before most of you were born) I was hired as an usher at a local theater, and I was paid $0.85/hour.

Summer job in 1998.  $5.15/ hr

[cmypay]

$2.13/hr + tips in a 50s style diner. And I walked to work

[Eupher]

1972 - Grocery store bagging groceries, fetching carts from the parking lot, and stocking shelves.

I don't remember the exact figure, but it was part time and it wasn't much.

The next summer I got a great gig as a copyboy for the Detroit News. Made about $130 a week, most of which went to buy a car and pay for car insurance.

[catsmtrods]

I started the job I am still at in 1977 for $3.84 an hour. After all those years I'm at $25, I have full health care, 4 weeks vacation, 12 personal days and the company has provided $130,000 in a savings account. Not great but it provided a fair life for me. Stick to it dummies!

[IassaFTots]

Moved from Fl to Texas and found out the going rate for babysitting was 1.25 per hour, so I marketed myself at 1.00 and got all the neighborhood business. 

My first tax-reportable job was working at Showbiz Pizza Place for 3.35 per hour, plus free pizza and sometimes free beer. 

[Chris_]

Moved from Fl to Texas and found out the going rate for babysitting was 1.25 per hour, so I marketed myself at 1.00 and got all the neighborhood business. 

My first tax-reportable job was working at Showbiz Pizza Place for 3.35 per hour, plus free pizza and sometimes free beer. 

Am I the only one that remembers when Pizza Hut served beer?  At least the one in the neighborhood I grew up in did.

[IassaFTots]

Am I the only one that remembers when Pizza Hut served beer?  At least the one in the neighborhood I grew up in did.

Mine did. 

[Ralph Wiggum]

Am I the only one that remembers when Pizza Hut served beer?  At least the one in the neighborhood I grew up in did.

They don't sell beer in the restaurants of Pizza Hut anymore? ???

I haven't set foot in one for years, so I wouldn't know.

[Maxiest]

Am I the only one that remembers when Pizza Hut served beer?  At least the one in the neighborhood I grew up in did.

Nope, I remember also.

The Pizza place I worked at in MS which is a chain also.  Mazzio's served beer when I worked there, not sure if they still do.  We used to have to be in at 6:00 AM to make all the pizza's for the buffet.  Needless to say I was a little tipsy buy opening time at 11:00 on some days.  

[Ralph Wiggum]

Moved from Fl to Texas and found out the going rate for babysitting was 1.25 per hour, so I marketed myself at 1.00 and got all the neighborhood business.  

My first tax-reportable job was working at Showbiz Pizza Place for 3.35 per hour, plus free pizza and sometimes free beer.  

I loved good ol' Showbiz Pizza Place as a kid & teen.  My folks & their friends/other parents could drink beer while the "kids" ran around playing the now classic video games. 8)

[Chris_]

I got one for you... John Madden's all-you-can-eat BBQ rib night at Quincys.

I can't even find it on YouTube.

[DefiantSix]

Am I the only one that remembers when Pizza Hut served beer?  At least the one in the neighborhood I grew up in did.

Some of the Pizza Hut stores out west here still do (serve beer and wine).

[Freeper]

I cut people's grass for $2 until I turned 16 and McDonalds would hire me. I started off at $3.35 and got promoted to night maintenance after I graduated HS and made a whopping $5. Then I joined the Army and made like a dollar an hour.

[JohnnyReb]

At age 12, dad hired me out to another farmer to drive a tractor for 65 cent per hour. Then at 18 I got a minimum wage job in the Bleachery at $1.25 an hour. Worked 48 hours per week and drew a $54.45 paycheck.

I was working second shift, 4 to 12....I owned a farm tractor and a small dozer at the time and could on some days make that much in one morning before going to work in the afternoon. For a tightwad 18 year old, I was rich way back then.