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In high school in 68, 69, 70 minimum wage was 2.10 I believe.
When I started my apprenticeship in 1971 I was making 50% of journeyman plumbers wages. I was getting a whopping 3.10 an hour. I was clearing 98.46! First wifey and I about didn’t make it on that.
How much you make starting out.?
Things changed, 46.08 when I retired, could make more on a Saturday than I did in a month in 71. Union plumbers were getting 6.20 then, probably 8.50 with insurance and .50 vacation money. Times have changed, not for the better either
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Although I’d worked bailing hay going into my sophomore year at a different farm, going into my junior and senior year I worked at another farm for $1.00 an hour, 10 hours a day, 6 days a week. I thought I was a millionaire with $60 a week.
Spent it all on gas and condoms with my high school girlfriend.
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1978 , I think I was making about $2.90 an hour.
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Mowing lawns and yard work were my first job.. My first real job was sacking groceries at Safeway in 1974 or 1975. I can't remember how much I was making but it wasn't much but it sure was fun!!
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Violence may not be the best option... but it's still an option.
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$32k a year as a baby engineer. That was in ‘93. I bought a corvette and thought I had the world by the tail. Actually, I kinda did since I was single for 5 years afterwards.
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My first job? Washing dishes for 3.35. My first real job I was a mechanic making $16 and thought I was gonna be rich.
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About 1900 'n 65 I made a dollar an hour pumping gas at the station next to our house, 10 year old.
About '72 I was making $3/hour giving swimming lessons.
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First job was a 1.00 a day working on the neighbors farm. At 7 I was in hog heaven. In high school worked at an auto parts store $1.60. $2.50 a year later after graduation and going full-time.
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My first job where I paid the government for the privilege of working was in '87 and I was paid $3.40/hour.
Before that I worked for a family friend, running saws, planers, routers and such for 2 bucks an hour, cash. Started working for him when I was 13. It was great experience and he appreciated my perfectionist nature. He also guided me through rebuilding the engine for my second car - more rewarding experience.
4 out of 5 Great Lakes prefer Michigan. 
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$2/hour because back then parents with businesses that had kids on the payroll were allowed to pay less than minimum wage lol. For years I didn't get paid because I had a bed and roof but they thought it was a good idea for me to get a bank account and learn to hate the IRS.
"Hey jackass, get your government off my freedom."
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First real plumbing job out of HS $3.90/hr many moons ago.
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Graduating college in WV in 1986, I took the first job that didn’t involve coal….. $8.25/hr. I had been making $3.35 working retail. Never would have dreamed I be where I am today.
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In the early to mid 60’s we loaded hay for a nickel a bale and lunch. 3 of us worked together and could do pretty well. First real job was in 1966 making .85 cents an hour. Hit the big time in the summer of 1969 making $2.50 an hour as a construction laborer.
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Hanco my first job was busing tables and it brought me 1.45 an hour.
Thought i was a rich kid.
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While I worked at a produce market from age 11 through my first summer after my freshman year of college and did a couple of summer internships with whom I eventually started with in 1985 post college graduation and retired from in 2015. I consider this my first real job. I started at $29,500 in 1985.
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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Mine was the measly pay of a sojer, doled out by Uncle from y'all's (in)voluntary donations.
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I believe it was $3.25 per hour. Still work there.
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In high school in 68, 69, 70 minimum wage was 2.10 I believe.
When I started my apprenticeship in 1971 I was making 50% of journeyman plumbers wages. I was getting a whopping 3.10 an hour. I was clearing 98.46! First wifey and I about didn’t make it on that.
How much you make starting out.?
Things changed, 46.08 when I retired, could make more on a Saturday than I did in a month in 71. Union plumbers were getting 6.20 then, probably 8.50 with insurance and .50 vacation money. Times have changed, not for the better either Think your off on the minimum wage then believe it was $1.65
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Enlisted 6 weeks after I turned 18. Salary for recruits was $720/month. this was the early 90's In Australia. Once trained and at our units the pay was about $1280/month. About $240 of that went to R&Q( rations and quarters, aka accomodation and food). The Aus dollar was about .65c to the USD back then, the price of living more expensive. It was considered an reasonable salary for a young person at that time.
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Worked on the farm through high school, I was raking in 3.50 an hour, which was better than the $25 a day I started at. As a bonus after work we could haul and stack hay for a dime a bale.
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