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re: How much did you make per hour at your first job?

Posted on 2/3/21 at 4:32 pm to
Posted by Ace Midnight
Between sanity and madness
Member since Dec 2006
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Posted on 2/3/21 at 4:32 pm to
$3.35 per hour (but I was 13 years old )
Posted by WS Bengal
Winston Salem
Member since Jan 2008
236 posts
Posted on 2/3/21 at 4:32 pm to
$1.65 elevator operator (1967) french quarter hotel.
Posted by Feelthebarn
Lower Alabama
Member since Nov 2012
3560 posts
Posted on 2/3/21 at 4:35 pm to
4.25 mid 90s
Posted by hobotiger
Asbury Park, NJ
Member since Nov 2007
5353 posts
Posted on 2/3/21 at 4:36 pm to
10 bucks a game for keeping score for a Saturday softball league. So 10 bucks an hour and I did three games each Saturday. 13 years old
Posted by white perch
the bright, happy side of hell
Member since Apr 2012
7567 posts
Posted on 2/3/21 at 4:37 pm to
$6.25/hr

ETA and this was my first real job out of college with a bachelors degree.
This post was edited on 2/3/21 at 4:39 pm
Posted by Traveler
I'm not late-I'm early for tomorrow
Member since Sep 2003
26089 posts
Posted on 2/3/21 at 4:37 pm to
$1.75 summer job, worked at a hospital moving a library with dusty old books from one floor to the next. Medical records followed next. Wasn't much money, but it was inside work.
Posted by junkfunky
Member since Jan 2011
35699 posts
Posted on 2/3/21 at 4:38 pm to
quote:

$4.50


Something like that. Mike Anderson's when I was 15.
Posted by Epic Cajun
Lafayette, LA
Member since Feb 2013
36253 posts
Posted on 2/3/21 at 4:39 pm to
I believe it was $13.50/hr.
Posted by Jake88
Member since Apr 2005
77691 posts
Posted on 2/3/21 at 4:40 pm to
$3.15
Posted by Polycarp
Texas
Member since Feb 2009
5720 posts
Posted on 2/3/21 at 4:40 pm to
$2.65
Posted by Porkchopsdontfloat
Member since Feb 2017
247 posts
Posted on 2/3/21 at 4:43 pm to
$4.25, Bussing tables at an all you can eat catfish house in central Arkansas.
Posted by texn
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Member since Nov 2019
4054 posts
Posted on 2/3/21 at 4:46 pm to
Restaurant in the early 80's, last 2 years of high school, 1st year of college.

Did various jobs: as a busboy, $2.01 per hr, plus tips anywhere from $6 to $12 per hr. Oyster shucker, $3.35 per hour. Dishwasher $4 per hr. Cook...I can't remember what, probably $5.25 per hr.

Of course, at that time, community college tuition was $9 per credit hour and 4 year public university tuition was $27 per credit hour.
Posted by tgrmeat
Member since Sep 2020
5550 posts
Posted on 2/3/21 at 4:46 pm to
$3.35
Posted by Dirk Dawgler
Georgia
Member since Nov 2011
3820 posts
Posted on 2/3/21 at 4:46 pm to
$4.25 at Kroger in 1987. Sweet gig. Worked the video counter and stocked dry goods. Had a key to “the cage” where al of the busted candy packages were stored waiting to be returned. Work was like living at Willy Wonkas Factory.
Posted by Warfarer
Dothan, AL
Member since May 2010
12334 posts
Posted on 2/3/21 at 4:48 pm to
$3.75 at the age of 12. I was bringing home about 120 bucks a week in 1990 in the summer and had no bills. Balling as frick. I could go to the arcade and throw fricking money.

I remember working summer of 1996 down at the outlets in Destin living with my dad who was out of town for a job and was offered 6 bucks an hour and nearly shite myself. She asked me if I was ok doing stock room for awhile because it needed to be straightened up and I told her I would make it shine for 6 bucks an hour.
Posted by noonan
Nassau Bay, TX
Member since Aug 2005
37000 posts
Posted on 2/3/21 at 4:49 pm to
I don't remember what my first job paid.

I was making $4.35 fueling jets at MSY in the late 90's though.
Posted by Slingscode
Houston, TX
Member since Sep 2011
2186 posts
Posted on 2/3/21 at 4:51 pm to
$1.25 sweeping floors.
Posted by EA6B
TX
Member since Dec 2012
14754 posts
Posted on 2/3/21 at 4:54 pm to
$1.15 per hour, was the minimum wage for farm labor.
Posted by midlothianlsu
Midlothian, Texas
Member since Oct 2009
1766 posts
Posted on 2/3/21 at 4:57 pm to
$1/hour washing airplanes at the downtown airport. 1969 or so. Followed by Pak-A-Sak @$1.45/hour.
Posted by uptowntiger84
uptown
Member since Jul 2011
4992 posts
Posted on 2/3/21 at 4:59 pm to
5.75 circa 1999
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