Here’s What the US Minimum Wage Was the Year You Were Born

[FGB]

Here’s What the US Minimum Wage Was the Year You Were Born.

Although minimum wage is not nearly as low as it used to be, America still has a long way to go when it comes to compensating its workers. The federal minimum wage is currently at $7.25, a number that has stayed the same since 2009.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/us-minimum-wage-were-born-160000146.html

 

[Mr_Neb]

I don't know what it was when I was born but the first job I had (working in a small local drug store) paid $1.60. After a few weeks I got a raise to $1.65.

 

[PaxNurgle]

My first job as a teenager paid $3.55 per hour; just 20 cents above the minimum. It was at a non-profit low income residential unit with a kitchen. After a few months, I got a pay cut- cost savings you see- down to $3.25 per hour; which in 1987 was the minimum wage.

That was not a living wage even back then, but for a kid, it allowed me to save up some money to buy my first car at the end of the summer.

 

[FGB]

First non family paying job was piling brush on some clear-cut land in the middle of nowhere for a Senator.

One of my brothers and I worked all one summer making less than minimum wage...we were below legal age and off the books.

There was no one to keep an eye on us but there was also nothing else to do either.

My second job the next summer was in a scrap metal yard. Worked my ass off for less then minimum wage, but he always bought a good lunch!

 

[OldJourno]

Here’s What the US Minimum Wage Was the Year You Were Born.

Although minimum wage is not nearly as low as it used to be, America still has a long way to go when it comes to compensating its workers. The federal minimum wage is currently at $7.25, a number that has stayed the same since 2009.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/us-minimum-wage-were-born-160000146.html

Says here I made the equivalent of $10 and change for the entry level work I performed decades ago. It was what the job was worth, and since I was 16-17 I thought it was plenty fair since the money was all mine since mom and dad were buying the groceries and putting a roof over my head.
America doesn't "have a long way to go" since America doesn't compensate workers, employers do. My jobs were entry level in every sense of the word and were not worth more to the company than what I was making.
P.S.: The jobs generally don't exist today except where the states mandate them.

 

[Lazaran]

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How fortunate for OldUrinal that he had an employed mommy and daddy to allow him the luxury of keeping all his earnings.

Many kids, through no fault of their parents, have to contribute to the family budget.

Good for OldUrinal though.

Such a "privilege" to have been graced with that inspiring story of his "challenging" adolescence.