[manaboutown]

1956: Age 14, sacker at local grocery store $0.35/hr.
1958: Age 16, sacker at a Safeway $0.75/hr
1958: started playing in dance bands, rock and roll and CW bands. Played through college years. Did pretty well most nights. Also bought cars I fixed up, drove a while and sold at a profit.
1961 and 1962 summers, lifeguard, not much money but great fringe benefits!
1962-1964 Math Aide at a research lab at Kirkland AFB, NM. Modest pay but a great job
1964: graduated college, first job with Westinghouse @ $7,500/yr
1965: US Army National Guard, 6 mos. active duty Ft. Jackson, SC, $87/mo or thereabouts
1967: USPTO GS-7 around $7,500/yr to start
1970. Patent Attorney @ $20,000, Kodak, Rochester, NY

[Lea N]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

1) Your first part-time job (probably as a minor).

2) Your first "real full-time" job.


Me:
1) $1.75/hr
2) $18,000/yr

1963 (at 8 years old) my husband got 1/2 cent per worm he dug up for a family owned business that sold worms to fisherman. He got a penny for night crawlers.

When he went in the army (at 18) that was his first full time job. He doesn't remember the pay, but it wasn't very much.

[villagetinker]

Out of college ('71) around $11k, 40 years later and several promotions $120K with stock options etc. Then 1 year of consulting and I made enough to buy a house here for cash, that was $150/hr.

[eweissenbach]

Hauling hay - generally 2cents a bale or $1 an hour 1963-65. Some jobs at 2 cents a bale I could make $20 in a day which was huge money back then. I could take a date to a movie with popcorn a drinks and gas at 20 cents a gallon all for less than $5. First real job upon college graduation, head basketball, assistant football, head track coach, PE teacher $5,900 / yr.

[Taltarzac725]

Dishwasher at the Rapscallion Restaurant before and upon opening around 1977. Pay was good. Somewhere above minimum wage. Left to get better hours at a food service run by a partnership that had places at Idlewild Softball Diamonds and at Bowers' Mansion and Sky Tavern. This was in the Reno-Tahoe area. Worked for them until May of 1983. Pay was OK. Not sure what the amounts were.

I did call one of the partners after I graduated from the U of MN Law School and was working at the Law Library there. This was during the American Association of Law Libraries convention the Summer of 1989 in Reno. It was there that Summer. Think the partner was worried I wanted my old job back. He told me to move on.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

1977, $2.30/hour working as a concession clerk at the Whitney Theatre. Boss was Mr. Spodick. I quit after he commented about how my sweater was "tight" (it wasn't, he was just a perv). But I got to see the first Star Wars and The Spy Who Loved Me for free.

I was a part-time/full-time Kelly Girl for 7 years. My first full-time job was a temp job in Boston at NYNEX doing data entry. I think I got around $6/hour. Minimum wage in MA was $3.05/hour. I quit it to return to busking (street musician) where I averaged $10/hour in cash and made my own hours.

[jebartle]

1st bookkeeper, take home pay, $41.85.
After college $1500, ahh, the good ole days!

[Susan from Ohio]

As a first year teacher in 1973, paid $6000 for a year.

[MandoMan]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

1) Your first part-time job (probably as a minor).

2) Your first "real full-time" job.


Me:
1) $1.75/hr
2) $18,000/yr

Summer of ‘68, mowing lawns full-time for a company, age 14. $1 an hour.

1986, Assistant Professor at a state university, Ph.D. In hand, $24,000 a year.

[mdmurrell]

Part time summer job as waiter-bus boy 54 cents an hour. Full time job (1970) was $6000 as inside salesman for electric motor mfg

[swooner]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

1) Your first part-time job (probably as a minor).

2) Your first "real full-time" job.


Me:
1) $1.75/hr
2) $18,000/yr

Who cares?

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by swooner

Who cares?

I guess the OP does

[NoMo50]

1971: Gas station attendant, $1.35/hr cash under the table.
1981: After college, structural steel sales, $18,000/yr plus a company car. Thought I was in tall cotton!

[Zenmama18]

Me: $1.60/hour
First “real” job. $9K/year

That was a very long time ago!

[gbs317]

It was 1962 back in Brooklyn, NY I was 8 years old running my own “business” shining shoes. My father had an old homemade shoeshine box when he was younger man and I used that to make a few dollars at 25 cents per shine. It was a great “territory” in front of Wes’s candy store because it was the last stop on Ave U and Veterans Ave where all the bus drivers went to sit down at the counter for food or pickup coffee and those were the days when men wore real working leather shoes, I think Knapp was the preferred brand back then.
It was a great summertime job, the bus drivers treated me like gold. They talked to me as if I was one of them and to an eight year old they looked cool in their blue bus drivers uniforms.
When five o’clock came around my mom would give Wes a call and he would come out and tell me it was time to go home to dinner. I thanked him, packed up my stuff and walked back home. It was another great day with 5 to 10 dollars in quarters in my pockets. I wish I still had that old shoeshine box today.