Did you ever work at a job worth less than $15 an hour?
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Lancecastor
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My first part time job in high school would be $10.97/hour today.
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When I was a teen, i think the minimum wage was @ $1.85 per hour. I got lucky and scored a summer job for about 2x, so @ $380 plus a per diem rate of 50 cents per hour. I think I was about 23/24 before I was making $15 or more
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1st job I ever had I made $1.25/hr working at the local college washing dishes while I was still in HS. Gas was also $.25/gal.
Today, I make six digits... got a good education and worked my ass off... that's how it's done. If the $15/hr crowd wants to raise the minimum wage, just don't be surprised when gas is $15/gal, and everything at McDonalds comes out of a vending machine.
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My second salaried job paid around $15 an hour, if you figure a 40 hour work week (it was always more than that.) That job required a degree, plus I received a bilingual stipend. My first salaried job was less than $15 an hour. The job I have now pays me less than $15/hr. I have a degree in the field, but if I want the work, I have to accept the pay.
You were an exotic dancer?
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LOL. Yep.
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$3.35 in the late 80s
I pumped gas and basically ran a station on I-80 before my senior year in HS. Split days with my buddy, going from 7 to 9 with one of us opening and the other closing on 9-hour days.
The boss was an alcoholic and we were never sure when he'd show up. He did come by after we closed to collect the cash.
All this for, I think, $1.25 an hour.
This was back when credit cards were rare and were charged with imprints. Old credit cards had worn down numbers that sometimes didn't imprint and couldn't be read on our copy.
If we didn't catch it and the imprint couldn't be billed, it was taken out of our paychecks.
The boss was an alcoholic and we were never sure when he'd show up. He did come by after we closed to collect the cash.
All this for, I think, $1.25 an hour.
This was back when credit cards were rare and were charged with imprints. Old credit cards had worn down numbers that sometimes didn't imprint and couldn't be read on our copy.
If we didn't catch it and the imprint couldn't be billed, it was taken out of our paychecks.
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Ha! The next thing you'll tell us is there was only an old rotary phone hanging on the side of the gas station and it was .10$ for a call.
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Minimum wage in Germany is Euro 8.85/hour. That's 9.38 $/Hour.
There is a lot of people, who has to work for that amount.
There is a lot of people, who has to work for that amount.
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1966, changing sprinkler pipe on a dairy farm. $60.00 a month for 4 hours a day (2 hours in the morning, 2 hours in the evening) , 7 days a week, about 112 hours a month or $0.535 an hour ($4.08 in 2017 dollars). My second job in 1967 was hand loading shake bundles onto a rail car. We got paid by the car, $100.00. It took about 10 hours for two of us to load a car if we worked our ass off or 15 if we screwed around. $5.00 ($38.14 in 2017 dollars) an hour was damned good pay back then so we opted to bust ass.
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