From about 13-16 I cut yards around the neighborhood for $2 per.
In high school during the summer, (‘66, ‘67, ‘68) worked as a “lot boy” at a car dealership, detailing used cars, sweeping, starting all the cars in the morning, delivering and picking up cars and basically being the gopher, making minimum wage which was $1.10 an hour.
In NROTC we got books, tuition and a $50/mo. stipend. Had to do three, six week summer training sessions (two cruises and a combined aviation/USMC indoc) where we were paid E-5 pay I think, or about $275/mo.
IIRC, in ‘72 as a newly commissioned, married Ensign with flight pay it was just under $8000 gross for the year. I think our first apartment we rented in Pensacola was $125/mo. With just the two of us we felt pretty well off. 😊
