September 1986: video store clerk $3.35/hr.

1996 - Parma Pierogies

$5.75 per hour.

Fying / boiling pierogies and various other Polska foodstuffs.

Before that was caddying for cash. Made WAY better money looping.

First paycheck job was with my town's park department. $1.60 an hour in 1966. Learned about FISA at that time. Cutting grass (push mowers) cutting weeds and brush, picking up trash, trimming trees, drove a sickle bar mounted on a tractor.

$1.65 part time after school in 1973 at department store G.C.Murphy.
Good learning experience.

1952, grocery packer at Big Bear market--$0.50/hr + tips
1954, telephone order taker and packer at a Chinese carry-out kitchen--$1.50/hr + dinner

flashguy

Used some earlier posts to refresh my memory it must have been around $1.65 per hour.
It was enough to make my car payments of $69.67 (no idea why I remember that amount) and to fill the gas tank for $5 (that's right five bucks ~ it was a 72 Fiat Spyder and gas was as low as 19 cents a gallon).
Good ole days.

.85 cents an hour, dressed in a white shirt, black tie, shoes bagging groceries in 1971.

In 1971, while in high school I made $1.65 an hour shoveling ice in a poultry packing plant.
Gaf

Summer of 1969, just 4 months older than 15 years. Lied about my age. Was supposed to be at least 16 but I was tall for my age. Started bagging groceries for $1.45 an hour. Worked in grocery stores all through high school. Eventually became a stocker and 3rd man in the produce department.

1970 worked as a plumber’s apprentice for 3.75 an hour, took home 109 and change weekly.

In 1983 I was 15 and started work as a delivery driver for a small pharmacy. I think I was making $3.85hr. In 1986 I graduated high school and got a summer job where my dad worked that was for college students. I made $8hr and I thought I was rich.

Bagging groceries at the base commissary, tips only I was 16 made $30-$40 a day back in 1976
First real job 1978 shipyard work $3.45 was sh!tting in high cotton!!!

I'm going to guess it was 1964 pumping ethyl and I think it was $1 an hour. Went up a full quarter an hour to $1.25 the next year. I don't think it was out of the goodness of their heart, I think it was a legislated increase. Gas jockeys did what they had to do. You self serve guys don't realize we had to wash windows and check the oil, too.

1966 flipping burgers at McDonalds for either $1.15 or $1.35.hr; I forget. I was 15 years old and had to get a work permit.

1986 12 years old cut apricots at one of the last apricot farms in the Santa Clara valley. .50c per tray that was 4x8 and the cots cut in half remove pits placed flesh side up so they could be dried.
Work as much or a little as you wanted it was all piecemeal in June when cots came in.

First w2 job day after I turned 15 in 1989 for a job at Great America amusement park in Santa Clara. Food warehouse making 7$ an hour when min wage was 4.25. I was very big for my size and my bro who was working security had been in the warehouse the previous summer and got the manager to hook me up. I think you were supposed to be 18. For 15 I was swimming in loot !

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1966 $1.00/hr. Working part time in a convenience store.

1988: prep cook and dishwasher at local restaurant 2 blocks from my house.

Pay was a whopping $3.35 an hour but we were paid cold hard cash in an envelope under the table so that was probably more like a real world $4.00 an hour.

I actually worked my rear end off at that job and saved enough money to buy my first car, a 1967 Pontiac Firebird, at age 15. Drove it the day I turned 16

$6.50/hr in 1998 as a bookseller at Barnes & Noble.

1964 - Portland, OR - copy room of Georgia-Pacific - $1.25/hr.

This was with a Xerox machine that took up half a room and took 2 people to work it.

$2.10 an hour doing maintenance. I’m old.