2006-06-26 13:18:42 · 23 answers · asked by randyboy 5 in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
Summer of 1970, fresh out of HS, my first job was as a counter clerk at a dry cleaner
here in DC. The minimum wage was $1.80
an hour but, as I was still 17, I got paid only $1.60 per hour until I turned 18. Pay was in cash on Saturday evenings. Never even made $10.00 per hour until the nineties, when I was in my mid-forties!
That was my first actual job but two months earlier, my rock band played a three hour banquet dinner at a Knights Of Columbus Hall. (It was three 45-minute sets.) The four of us were paid a total of $150.00, which worked out to $37.50 apiece for three hours. It was our first and only paying gig. We broke up after that night.
2006-06-27 15:22:59 · update #1
All responses were equally great. I just can't bring myself to choose one in this case, so I'm putting it up for votes.
Thanks all!
2006-06-28 12:32:57 · update #2
First job was about Feb of 1999 (I think) and I got 7/hr
Go walmart! (sarcasm in case you missed it)
2006-06-26 13:20:36 · answer #1 · answered by Brian 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First job I had was back in the 70s. I was paid min wage, something like $2.50 an hour. I was a first aid counseler at a summer camp. Whatever the wage was it went a whole lot farther than $10 an hour would go today.
2006-06-26 20:23:23 · answer #2 · answered by draciron 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was 15, 2001 McDonalds in Sydney.
I got paid about $5-6 p/h
2006-06-26 20:23:46 · answer #3 · answered by samchic86 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My first job was being a stockboy at a local market back in '99. They was only paying $5.15 and I had to pay a big initiation fee and union dues everyweek, so I worked for them for only 3 weeks and quit without giving them a notice.
2006-06-26 23:07:47 · answer #4 · answered by callion008 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I made $1.25 for the first time I went to work in 1963. A junior in high school. We could only work 15 hours a week. It was so exciting to get a paper check with your name on it ;)
2006-06-27 09:41:09 · answer #5 · answered by Learningalot 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1977 - $.85 per hour at the Dairy Queen. I was 13 years old.
2006-06-26 20:23:17 · answer #6 · answered by Painter Lady 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aside for side jobs on farms. My first tax paying job was with KFC and it was in 1986 and I think paid $3.35 or $3.85 an hour can not remember for sure.
2006-06-26 20:44:16 · answer #7 · answered by rstump1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
$3.35/hr at Hardees in 1987. I was 16 and worked there for a week and a half. Haven't eaten there since. Gross!
2006-06-26 20:23:45 · answer #8 · answered by Amy O 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
$4.25 and hour working at an auto body repair shop as an apprentice in 1979, in Ontario Canada.
2006-06-26 20:30:44 · answer #9 · answered by cruiser_man 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1975 fifty cents an hour and a penny a dozen for picking up eggs in a cage house, I was eleven.
2006-06-26 20:23:30 · answer #10 · answered by ardlesstraveled 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋