Question about your first job

[propita]

Damn, when I posted what I made, I didn’t think it would be one of the higher pays. $10/hr in 1984 didn’t seem like a lot. I guess it was because most here seem to have been lower.

Comparing doesn't make much sense when people had their first jobs at such varying ages, and varying levels of experience and education. A lot of the lower numbers here probably didn't come from full-time jobs.

In my OP I stated the year, my age, that it was a full-time job (40 hours a week), the type of job (fruit and veggie packer), excluded babysitting and occasionally working for my mother and also what an LP record cost at that time. I was getting pay that was the equivalent of about 8 LP records (probably 9 before tax). I was hoping that other people might give some similar details so we could compare our wages. Some people have provided enough details for me to compare what I earned to them.

I also excluded babysitting, which at that time was paying $2/hr. The church and school were paying $5/hr.

I began the $10/hr, full-time job the day after I turned 21 years old.

 

[od0_ital]

Hell, $10 is still a decent wage in 2010. Minimum wage in most (all?) states is still significantly lower than that.

Hell, I interviewed for a job yesterday that pays $10 an hour & I'd be able to live on that!

Probably not in Northern Virginia.

Nope...but when I was in Charlotte, NC in summer '07, I was only makin' $10.25 an hour.

 

[Gil T.Azell]

$2.85 per/hr washing cars for Avis, in the summer of 1979.

(Now I make $22.33 and still can't afford a house here.)

 

[Satyrquaze]

I worked at the local Dairy Queen for $3.75/hour for a 15 hour work week.