What was your minimum wage? (Page 6): The same candy bar, today; probably costs $1.25(+)!!!

Able Man Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)

Graywulff wrote:

No but the candy bars disappeared quite frequently.😆🙃 They we’re a whole nickel…..

The same candy bar, today; probably costs $1.25(+)!!!

Able Man Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)

Able Man wrote:

The same candy bar, today; probably costs $1.25(+)!!!

¡¡AND weighs less!!

Graywulff Loc: Cortez,Co.

Able Man wrote:

¡¡AND weighs less!!

AND doesn’t taste nearly as good!!

1940 Loc: Arlington wa

1954 we sold hot dogs 4# for 1$ Gr beef the same. Bread 12 cents, Gas 23 cents a gal.

plumbob Loc: New Windsor Maryland

Fredfish wrote:

There's a flashback, Chunkys with raisins, haven't... (show quote)

Those so called " seconds " weren't previously chewed were they Fred?

plumbob Loc: New Windsor Maryland

Larry M wrote:

That be me.

LOL

Chuck56 Loc: Texas

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.

We were dirt poor. My mom was divorced, no child support from deadbeat, and she ironed clothes for a living. If I didn’t earn money somehow, I didn’t get new clothes for the next year. I was cutting grass at 10 years old with a roto blade push mower. 1.50. / yard. My mom took 1.25 for every yard I cut for clothes for me/ brother / sister. I had 25 cents to spend. Not bad waaay back then. I was able to finally save up to buy a gas push mower at 12 years old. Made 2.50 / yard then..lol first “ real job “ was at a grocery store in port neches Texas. 1.62 / hour plus any tip I got carrying out groceries ......My 2cents..

GlsJr40 Loc: Dallas, Tx.

First job I had was Saturdays at the grocery store (1953) was paid $3 for 13 hour day. A couple years later, worked grocery for $0.35/hr. I also did lawn mowing for an average of $1.50 per lawn. In college in the early '60's i worked at the local A & P for $1.05/hr. I was glad to get my degree and start my first professional job at $450./month. Now I'm lucky to pay electricity, gas, and water with $450. Oh well, I know the experience was value added.

Graywulff Loc: Cortez,Co.

GlsJr40 wrote:

First job I had was Saturdays at the grocery store (1953) was paid $3 for 13 hour day. A couple years later, worked grocery for $0.35/hr. I also did lawn mowing for an average of $1.50 per lawn. In college in the early '60's i worked at the local A & P for $1.05/hr. I was glad to get my degree and start my first professional job at $450./month. Now I'm lucky to pay electricity, gas, and water with $450. Oh well, I know the experience was value added.

It appears to me that there is an undercurrent here among most of us.WE ALL LEARNED HOW TO WORK! Something that seems to be sadly absent from our present day.

Larry M Loc: North Clairmount, San Diego

plumbob wrote:

Those so called " seconds " weren't previously chewed were they Fred?

Would that be like ABC bubble gum?

Able Man Loc: North Coast (Cleveland, Ohio)

Larry M wrote:

Would that be like ABC bubble gum?

I'm thinking that they was just "deformed"... Kinda like that one "girlfriend"; from decades ago...

Placerville Loc: Northern California

10 cents for every duck I picked and cleaned. About 1957

Harris T. Fudpucker Loc: Lafayette, Louisiana

I sometimes shock people on my first job, or first way to get money. I trapped when I was only 9 yrs old, and although it might not sound like a lot, I had money to buy new rod and reels, camping gear, and fishing gear. My pelts brought only $0.50 cents or less, but in the fifty's that was good. I changed to catching 'crawfish', and that would bring in about $300 a weekend, not bad at 14

Best fishing ever Loc: So California

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.

I was mowing lawns for 50 cents at an age of 11. I started in a gas station at 16 and was making $1.65 an hour. Moved to Oregon at age 18 and worked in a sawmill for $3.75 an hour. The minimum wage was still &1.65 hr.
So $3.75 was big money for me.

Fredfish Loc: Prospect CT.

plumbob wrote:

Those so called " seconds " weren't previously chewed were they Fred?

Thank God no,Plum. Mostly lumpy or bare spots from the chocolate shower, or deformed wads of coconut from the conveyor belt. Tasted just as good as perfect ones, better actually due to the cheaper price.