Tuition was $3,500 a year at Tufts U. in the 1977 - 1978 college year. I commuted so there was no room and board costs. I was making $2.85 an hour back then.
That works out to 1,228 hours for a teenager working to cover the yearly tuition cost which which works out to 23 hours a week.
I worked about 480 hours during the summer and 800 hours during the school year for a total of 1280 hours a year. So at that time thins were pretty balanced.
Nowadays tuition alone is about $40,000 which at a MA min wage of $8.00 works out to 5,000 hours of work to cover the tuition cost.
No wonder lots of college kids are taking out loans.
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