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Lowest Wage You Ever Worked For

Brookwood
OK, I'm talking about what you were paid for work as an adult, 18 yrs. or older.

At 18, I worked as a dishwasher for 1.25 an hour. It kept me in gas money for the summer before I enlisted into the USAF.
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  • Brookwood
    I worked on several area farms picking fruit in season back in my early years. Started when I was about 10 or so and did it for many summer\fall's thereafter while in elementary\Jr. High school. I got paid 50 cents a lug for cherries and it sure was a big lug! Did strawberries, blueberries, apples, peaches, pears, and plums too. Don't remember what I got for all the rest, but it wasn't a lot. I did get to pick and choose what clothes I would wear to school though, as I used the money to buy them.
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  • jwb267
    13 years old. digging footer drains around a 40'x40' garage for 50 cents per hour. I had bloody knuckles and the man I was working for asked if I wanted a pair of gloves. well yes I would . thank you.
    the end of the week he handed me my money and I looked up at him and before I could say a word, he said" you didn't think the gloves were free did you?"
    1974. married. $3.25 per hour hanging seamless gutter, soffit and siding
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  • nmyers
    In 1963, I worked part time in a pizza/sub shop for $.90/hour while going to school. I don't remember hearing anything about "minimum wage" at the time.

    After a year, the manager had increased my pay to $1.40 per hour. My co-worker Bob had been hired after me; he told me he had been started off at $1.40/hour. I asked the manager, "How come Bob started off at the salary it took me a year to get?" He said, "Well, Bob has a family." I said, "Oh, I see." I turned in my apron. That was a valuable life lesson: there are many forms of discrimination.

    Neal
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  • SW0320
    Two jobs that I think were less than minimum wage.

    First was picking tobacco. We got 13 cents per bin of tobacco. It was hot well over 100 under the netting and dirty.

    The other job was working on party fishing boat. Pay was zero, all we got was tips for helping fisherman and all the fish we would filet.
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  • Aztngundoc22
    OK :

    While in 8th grade : I worked @ a t.v. repair shop : helpling pick-up & deliver t.v.s and trying to learn more bout electronics ??? @ $ 1.00 an hour :::

    Thanks !!!
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  • bobski
    an apple pie to cut a hedge.
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  • Brookwood
    bobski wrote:
    an apple pie to cut a hedge.

    Sounds like barter to me. Not a bad barter as long as the pie tasted good and the hedge wasn't a half mile long! :lol:
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  • KenK/84Bravo
    Wow, some of you Guy's got Screwed. (Not to mention, being Old as dirt.) :o :shock: :D
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  • us55840
    Beginning of 1963 .. minimum wage was $1.25 cents a hour until President Kennedy raised it in September 1963 to $1.25 an hour.

    In the late 50's, picked field rocks for a neighbor several miles away for .50 cents an hour.
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  • gruntled2
    KenK/84Bravo wrote:
    buddyb wrote:
    If I remember correctly,E-1 pay was about 62 bucks a month in 1970.

    Pretty sure it was $115/mo. In 1979.

    Plus Room & Board, Chow Hall, Health care, Physical activity/Gym membership, etc. :o :shock: :lol: :roll:

    Doubt that it went down from when I was in. E-1 was $78/mo in 1958. That would be 10 2/3rd cents/hr.
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