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

1.00 an hour working at my dad's auto parts store. That was minimum wage in 1965. Made 40 bucks the first week and bought black cowboy boots.

57 cents/hr in 1965.......

$5.15, minimum wage, working at the movie theater at 16 years old.

$1.65 sacking groceries at Brookshires

4.25 working at the Centroplex parking garage during events

Minimum wage for a bunch of years $3.35 per hour, yikes

41.7 cents per hour at a grocery store when I was a kid. 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Before that before and after school for an hour at a drug store, 5 days a week for $3.

Finally hit the big time at a service station, 50 cents an hour washing cars, pumping gas. Full service car wash then was $2.00, flats repaired for $1. Big truck tires $4. Grease job, $1.50. Oil change with filter probably $6.

Later in about the 9th grade went to work at a store for $1 per hour.

So you boys ain't got squat on this old man.

When I started college minimum wage for students was about 90 cents or $1.00 an hour but you could only work so many hours a month. Hired on at a service station on weekends for more $.

My first big week I got $60 and netted about $48 I think. That night my pal got arrested for drag racing and his bond was $60 cash. He had $10, I had $48, and the cop let us slide at the jail until we could go bum the other $2.

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yeah exploiting children is so American. Thank god they don’t have laws against that

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Working crappy jobs for minimum wage was the best thing that ever happened to me. Digging ditches all summer was a great motivator to get a education in a career field where I was likely to never work outside or touch a shovel. Making kids work crappy jobs for little pay would be a net positive for many of today’s kids.

$4.15

Got raised up to $4.50 and thought I was rolling in cash.