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Graduated college in 1983 and went to work as a deputy sheriff in Utah making $1240 a month, with $50 per month uniform allowance. Still wearing a gun and a badge, but I made detective in 1990 and now have a cushy job as a fraud investigator for the state.

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1981 Army E2 $514.00 per month. I was 18.
4 years later I was a service writer in a Jaguar dealership making $55K a year.


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!975....$760 a month...

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1979 I went to work for International Harvester in the parts department in a factory branch. $6.50 an hour, free medical insurance and a pension. My first job was delivering truck parts. Loved that job, driving all over the state. Got promoted inside and I hated it.

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Started running printing presses in 1966 for a bit less than a buck per hour. 53 years later still running presses. Good trade. I think I may retire...someday.

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Looks like it was $814.20 That is $407.10 before takes per pay period.

$407.10 divided by 160 hours would be $2.54 an hour! frown But don't forget I still have to give back my share to Uncle Sam!


You worked 160 hours per pay period?? Did you walk uphill 5 miles both ways to school in the snow also? 😁

$814.20 divided by 160 hours is roughly $5.08 per hour....you were making twice as much as you thought you were. 😂



A 160 hour work period is on the light side actually. If you knew anything about 30 plus year old CH53D's and the man hours required to keep them up at a 85% mission capable level you would no my facts are correct! But nice try!!!! No I didn't walk up hill to school it was a relatively flat walk, though it did snow often in the winter. I always preferred bumper skiing to walking.


It’s simple math sport.....you could show me where I’m wrong based on your numbers but I suppose it’s more exciting for you to act like a petulant little girl and go off the handle sending angry PM’s. 😂.

I don’t know why your insecurities are constantly on display but I’m sure they’re well founded. You could ‘splain your math if it matters that much to you but you should know that I really don’t give afuck nor did I mean to upset you.... I got a chuckle out of your PM and it seems that I unknowingly and unintentionally struck a nerve by my post. 😂.

It’s really not a big deal.....but apparently it is for you so if it makes you feel better then you’ll sleep easier tonight knowing that I’ve already forgotten about your tantrum. 👍

I understand why you’ve been reduced to mail-order brides/girlfriends/boyfriends, etc.


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1967 Working in a power plant $1.65 hour

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Started right out of high school with New England Telephone in 1968 as a lineman. Pay was $77.50 per week with OT available. I worked with them and the different companies they merged into for 34 years with many different jobs. I retired at age 53 about 18 years ago and have not worked a day since. I hunt, fish and work around my lake shore property. NET was a great company and I enjoyed all the different types of positions I held.


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What did you make when you started your first job out of college or high school?


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I was hired in 1992 for 19000 a year with the possibility to earn a bonus. The bonus was 1900 and I got that the last week of the year after my performance review. Base salary for 1993 was 19500.

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Out of college three times: 1st $1.75/hr. 2nd $14 K a year. 3rd $24 K. Retired at around $108K.

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I started working at about 12 pushing a lawn mower around our neighborhood charging $3/yard. My 1st real job was summer between 9th and 10 grade as a lifeguard. Did that for 4 summers, but worked 4-6 hours at night in a furniture factory too. I worked at the pool the summer after HS graduation which was the last year it was open. I have no idea what I was paid. I graduated HS in 1976 and worked nights in a milk processing plant through college.

My 1st good job was reading meters for the gas company during summers. Pay was pretty good. They eventually moved me to weekend dispatch. My senior year of college I worked 12 hours every Saturday and Sunday. I had a TV and waited for the phone to ring for emergencies. I was making almost $700/month.

Graduated college in 1980 and took my 1st teaching job at about $1000/month. But over time that did go up quite a bit. The gas company went down the tubes within 10 years after I graduated. I did consider just staying with them in 1980 but I made the right choice.


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Hanco: In 1965 I was making $1.25 per hour - which soon, thankfully, jumped to $1.37 per hour.
Aaahhhh.... the good old days!
After a 60 hour work week I had money left over once my bills were paid.
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$3 cash/hour tending and bouncing for local beer joint. Best education I recieved pre-college or post graduate school. What a place. Could have been a successful TV show, reality or otherwise. What a place..... .

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First job as HS senior- $1.60 an hour, minimum wage. Went to work for Ma Bell after graduation- $2.45. By the time I retired, I made more in three hours than I did in a week when I started.


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Out of high school, I worked a service station for $1 per hour. Hot summertime, 100 degree heat, but I still enjoyed it. In college, I had a summer job at Texaco as a summer field assistant, for $500/month- big money! Once I graduated, Texaco offered me a permanent job as an exploration geologist for $1000 per month. Bigger money!

As time, and my career progressed, salary increased to multiple-$100,000's per year, not including perks, benefits, etc.

Now, I'm just a retired, old fart, enjoying bird hunting with my dog.


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Whatever minimum wage was back then.

After I moved to Lexington I went to work unloading trucks for UPS making $6.17 an hour. That was decent money for a 19 year old boy back in 1975.

It was hard work, however. They treated you like a borrowed mule.

But that was okay once you got in shape to do it,....and unloading trucks at UPS would definitely put you in shape.

I was young,...in shape,...6', 180,...no fat,...had a decent paycheck coming in,..drove an old Mustang,.... split a decent apartment with a buddy,...could get a girl every now and then.

Life was good,...some of the best years of my life.

Then I started hosin' an elementary school teacher 3 years older than me who lived in the next apartment down the road.

Things stayed fugged for a long time after that. But they got better after about 20 years.

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$2.15 an hour in 1977.


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1985 just out of school and worked as a regional tech rep running herbicide trials in Eastern Colorado, Western Nebraska, and Western Kansas. My home was a hotel room wherever I ended up. I think I earned $18,000 a year. T

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1970. My 1st job was as a country extension agent, making about $7000/yr. That was an average wage in this area at the time. My old car crapped out and I bought a new '70 Chevy Nova for about $2200. That won't buy many repairs these days. OTOH, the car was worn out at 100k. Today's cars last 2 to 3 times as long.


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