What was your minimum wage? Trying to lighten the mood again today, we can only talk Russia so much. So maybe you will get a chuckle or an Oh Wow with the post to follow. What was...

plumbob Loc: New Windsor Maryland

Trying to lighten the mood again today, we can only talk Russia so much.

So maybe you will get a chuckle or an Oh Wow with the post to follow.

What was minimum wage when you started that 1st job or raking leaves for the neighbor?

For me it was.

50 cents for sidewalk snow shoveling as a kid.

$ 1.60 at 16 years of age being a plumbers helper.

ripogenu Loc: norfolk, MA

10 cents a box picking strawberries (at 8 yrs old) $2.00 week as a carpentry laborer (at 12 years old) I made more money picking strawberries!

mulehead Loc: Morriston,Fl

when i was on the farm it was 3.00 a dat from daylight to dark. the first job i had in 1956 was.90$ an hour

Catfish hunter Loc: Riggins idaho (Paradise)

plumbob wrote:

Trying to lighten the mood again today, we can only talk Russia so much.

So maybe you will get a chuckle or an Oh Wow with the post to follow.

What was minimum wage when you started that 1st job or raking leaves for the neighbor?

For me it was.

50 cents for sidewalk snow shoveling as a kid.

$ 1.60 at 16 years of age being a plumbers helper.

3 squares and a roof over my head till I was 8. Then my Dad paid me 25 cents an hour till I was 12. My first real job was 60 cents an hour which was minimum wage when I was 16. I remember going to town and shoveling snow for the elders around town. Two of us would make $5.00 a day to split and it was daylight to dark when we went. That was good money then. People will say it’s all relative to today’s prices but it’s nowhere close. A kid won’t shovel a small sidewalk now for less than $50.00. For $5.00 when I was a kid you could go to the movies and get popcorn. Today $50.00/hour is way more than a movie and popcorn costs. Even at today’s prices. I’m talking $5.00 dollars for the whole day with two guys. A small side walk takes a kid 15 minutes to shovel. Then they charge more if they have to use their own shovel.🙄

Wv mike Loc: Parkersburg area. Wv

Picking up and Selling night crawlers for 25c doz.

audigger53 Loc: Severn, MD

"Chopping Cotton", using a hoe to chop the weeds in the cotton field, $.70 and hour for 12 hours a day during the early summer months in Arizona and later making $3 a hundred pounds picking cotton, gave that up after a week of doing it. Weeding the cotton paid much better, but that had stopped.
Later $.10 a square yard breaking up the front, side, and back yard to mix top soil with the adobe using a pick axe.
Got real good with a pick axe. LOL

kandydisbar Loc: West Orange, NJ

plumbob wrote:

Trying to lighten the mood again today, we can only talk Russia so much.

So maybe you will get a chuckle or an Oh Wow with the post to follow.

What was minimum wage when you started that 1st job or raking leaves for the neighbor?

For me it was.

50 cents for sidewalk snow shoveling as a kid.

$ 1.60 at 16 years of age being a plumbers helper.

$1.80/hr bakery asst. after school high school

Slimshady Loc: Central Pennsylvania

60 cents an hour when I was 12 years old working at a gas station. The guy fixed radiators on big machines and it was my job to tear them apart and then put them back together after they were fixed. They were about 6 feet wide and that high and I had to make my own gaskets. They must have had 200 bolts in them

J in Cleveland Loc: Cleveland, Ohio

Weeding rows of hosta and other nursery work. Fifty cents an hour at 11 years old. And this was in the mid 80’s. 😂🤣. I was happy as a lark to get that $40 bucks at weeks end.

Able Man Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)

50¢/hour for picking up rocks out of the fields, prior to plowing; same rate for "making hay" +/or collecting Maple sap... These were all back in the mid-1960's- the early "70's... During that time period, also; on a different farm= picked strawberries at 10¢/ pint... By the time I was in Highschool, I got a job as a "stockboy" at the local supermarket, @= $2.25/hour... Followed by $2.50/hour for cleaning and feeding (involved moving 15-45 dogs and 6-12 cats from dirty cages to clean ones) at a boarding kennel in Baton Rouge, which was my FIRST "Payroll Job"; after graduating highschool, a "Bicentennial Edition"!

OJdidit Loc: Oak Creek Wisconsin

I did a lot of work for next to nothing, but the first actual paying job with taxes and SS taken out was at a True Value Hardware store for $2.25 an hour in 1976. I thought I was living large until I got my first check and saw all the deductions. I was aware of taxes and SS, but when I saw the FICA entry I had to ask who is he and what is he doing with all my money??
I believe it got bumped up to $2.70 / hour maybe 2 years later. Don’t worry, the rising gas prices at the time (thank you Jimmy Carter) ate up all that extra money I was raking in…along with the dating and the pursuit of happiness.

Jarheadfishnfool Loc: Woodlake/Tulare ,Ca.

First federal minimum wage job,, $1.65 I had was Working part time at my uncle's Turkey Ranch 1968, Catfish you mentioned $.60 cents an hour in 1971 ,whoever you worked for was cheating you ,if they told you that was minimum wage , with interest from back then you'd have another nest egg you didnt know about !

El Rod Loc: Port A

Summer between 6th and 7th grade. Dad was stationed at Chanute Field, Il.
I caddied on the base golf course. If a guy had a good round I’d get 50 cents.
1.25 an hour when I married my wife in 1968. 40.00$ per hour now, semi retired

Grizzly 17 Loc: South central Pa

Age 12 $0.25 per hr thinning peaches n $0.30 for a 10qt bucket picking cherries.

flyguy Loc: Lake Onalaska, Sunfish Capitol of the World!

plumbob wrote:

Trying to lighten the mood again today, we can only talk Russia so much.

So maybe you will get a chuckle or an Oh Wow with the post to follow.

What was minimum wage when you started that 1st job or raking leaves for the neighbor?

For me it was.

50 cents for sidewalk snow shoveling as a kid.

$ 1.60 at 16 years of age being a plumbers helper.

Milking cows in the morning for neighbor= $0.25 + pepsie, evenings= #0.25 + supper. Of Course, I had to walk 2 miles each way to get to his place, and it was usually dark by the time I got done. When I started working for him all day during the Summer I would get an extra buck a day. And I gave up trout fishing inorder to do that. DUMB!!!!!!