How much did your first job pay?

[reecejackox]

It was $3.50 an hour bagger

 

[Drewsdad]

$2.50 hour cleaning ditches

 

[BlueStarryHat]

$3.33 per hour, four hour shifts. I don't remember how many days a week I worked, but I do recall I worked every weekend. I sold hot dogs from a little trailer in a supermarket parking lot.

 

[kanerf]

I think it was about $2 an hour. Late seventies in AZ. Worked at a gas station.

 

[SC Minnie]

early 80's -- $2.85/hr at a movie theater

 

[Tiggerish]

My first job was picking blueberries. I was paid $0.13 a pint. I would fill a large bucket and pour it into boxes filled with pint containers. Then I would get a ticket for how many pints and at the end of the day or week if you wanted, you turned in your tickets and got a check for the total amount picked.

 

[Mandy Poppins]

I think it was $3.75 or $4.25 but it was filing and clerical stuff in a bank so not hard labor...I had not turned 16 yet when they hired me and Mom had to drive me after school to work a couple of hours in the afternoons until I got my license.

 

[sheilafri]

I babysat in the 70s. The going rate was $.50 an hour. I sat for one family once with four boys. They paid only $.40 an hour. My mom said I didn’t have to take their job again—which I didn’t.

 

[amcnj]

$2 an hour. But as a 12 or 13 year old who couldn’t get an “on the books” job, I guess it wasn’t bad. And it was a long, long time ago now!

 

[Tinkerbell58]

My annual salary for my first full time job was $4,995. This was in 1976, and I was fresh out of high school. I worked as a clerk-stenographer.

 

[RangerPooh]

$5/hour for seasonal work. The next position only paid just above minimum wage at $4/hour. I didn't stay long.

 

[loves to dive]

I can't remember. I was babysitting by the time I was 12 or 13 and that was over 50 years ago. My first tax paying job was when I was 17, so over 45 years ago. I'm lucky to remember how much I get paid right now. And just for the record, I don't know off the top of my head how much I get paid right now. I went to hourly a few years ago, I'm the bookkeeper so I just plug my number of hours worked into Quickbooks.

 

[Schneewittchen37]

$5/hour receptionist/office clerk. Dangerous work, so many paper cuts.

 

[barkley]

first real/taxpaying job-$2.65 per hour (1978). worked in a music school/store-one of my duties was to test the new metronomes when they came in. if you want to torture someone make them wind up a dozen metronomes, one at a time and then listen to each individually tick, tick, tick, tick....................................................................................................................................... until they wind down

 

[Mrs.AMC]

I was 16
$2.10
That was minimum age at the time working in a department store

 

[Meglen]

7-8$ cashier in 2003

 

[CdnCarrie]

Mid 80s fast food. I forget but maybe $3.50ish. Only stayed for less than a year until I was old enough to waitress and get tips.

Googled it and minimum wage for youth was $3.85 so probably that. Once I started waitressing it would be $4.50 (minimum wage for adults) plus tips.

 

[Gary M]

I made 60 cents per hour working at a gas station in 1959. This was a summer job before my senior year in high school. I'm really old.

 

[E&Cmom]

$4.55 at Burger King 1988.

 

[Tattylou]

Just under 5 an hour - at a candy store in 1995.