I entered the hourly workforce as soon as I was 15, in 1984, actual burger-flipping and fry-cooking for my first job, in exchange for a whopping $3.35/hr.

Before that I mowed a few lawns each week, and worked doing track maintenance at the BMX track in exchange for free entrance fees for the Races.

But yeah, $3.35/hr in 1984 was where it all started.

You?

$4.25 1991 16 years old pizza delivery driver. They provided the car. Awesome job for my first job.

$6.15 1995

First W-2 job. All cash under the table prior to that.

1991

$7.50/hr - Clerical Job FT Day (9 years)
$6.25/hr - Bagging Grocery PT Night (6 years)

Had to work two jobs to survive.

My first 'job-job' drawing wages, was in a tire shop busting truck & car retreads. 1962 after school, $1.25/hr. Big steady money.

Early 80s, $3.35/hr at a drive through dairy.

January 1977
Age 16
McDonald’s
$2.30/hour

1994, $4.50/hr. working in the stockroom at Target. I worked there part time all through HS and college. I left in 2000 for my first full time job at a small PD in Wisconsin making $12/hr.

1980-81-ish, $3.20-$3.35/hr IIRC. Started bussing tables in a seafood restaurant, then moved up to retail camera sales for approx 5 years until 1986 when I joined the USAF. Actually made less money for the first couple years in the military. Seems like forever ago now...

1974 and I was making about $4 an hour working at an ice plant.

1977 - $2.75 - Part Time while in High School working for Dad. Minimum wage was $2.65.

$1.65 per hour, in 1972

On our farm I was treated as one of the migrant hands, even lent out to other farms with them. $5.00/hr 1995ish.

First job that got taxed was as a cook at a Doughroller restaurant in Ocean City, Maryland. I think my buddy and I negotiated to $7.25 because we spoke English and showed up early. 2001.

Washing carts and picking the range at a local golf club in 1998. $5.15 an hour and all the free golf I could play.

Bagging and stocking for a supermarket in NYC(Grand Union)in 1966.
Was 16 year old and got about $1.53 if I remember.

Summer of '66 I started working for my Dad in the plumbing business. $.25 cash per hour at the age of 12. 52 years later I make a bit more as a plumber.

Mowed yards and such, a lot, as a kid and some odd jobs or Saturdays with my dad but my first regular 40 hour paychecks were during summers while school was out... 1971 working for my Dad's construction company. Take home check was $99.98 a week. I remember thinking... MAN, just two more cents and I'm making 100 bucks a week!

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Originally posted by 46and2:
I entered the hourly workforce as soon as I was 15, in 1984, actual burger-flipping and fry-cooking for my first job, in exchange for a whopping $3.35/hr.

Come on, a whopping wage whacking whoppers?

If I correctly recall, $2.xx washing dishes at a Chinese restaurant. Lasted one day. Worked peacefully at the university library shelving books for pizza money.

First W2 job was at Dobbs House at the airport bussing tables and running a large scale dishwasher. Sometimes helping with stocking aircraft galleys. Prior to that it was all cash yardwork kicked off by a very first job painting an old barn at 13. One of my regular yard jobs turned out to be the guy who hired me at Dobbs. The summer of 1979 I turned 16, went with my mom to get a drivers license, took her home and drove to the airport 'fortwith'. Thus began groundhog summer where everyday was identical to the last. Parking in long term and taking the now defunct DFW airport 'AirTrans' to the terminal. I was hired at something like $3.10/hr but minimum wage then was actually $2.90.

After that it was hammer and nail roofing every summer. And that paid by the 'square', so it was performance based pay. I found I preferred it. I had tried two fast food jobs that had identical performances: 11 work hours each week at both separate jobs. I was used to working hard and minimum 40 hrs so I gave each two weeks to improve. They did not.

Started working for Sohio at age 16 in 1971. Was your typical gas pump jockey who also did oil changes and general mechanical repair. Pay was a glorious 1.30 per hour.