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I turned 21 in 2008. Got a job making $11.00/hour doing customer service for a credit card company. I started that job as a way to pay for college, and now I finished my degree in psychology and worked into a career in credit card processing....although I still am not at the point where I can say I am making career money. But soon I hopefully will be!
I had my first real job, with a salary of $35,580 in 1993. Just under $57,000 in 2012 dollars. I'm doing better now, but it's sobering to think how much inflation you get in 20 years, even when inflation has been considered low for that whole period.
1969 just at the tail end of being in the military.
My final pay for the month was $333 which included combat pay.
For perspective that was equivalent to $2,099.69 today but included free meals, medical, cigarettes and beer.But no women unless they were a little bit on the trashy side if you know what I mean.
Then I knocked around a bit and the next real job I had working in a toilet manufacturing company as a laborer earning $4.25 (that was with night shift differential) in 1972 which was equivalent to $23.53/hr. With overtime I was earning around $900/month which was equivalent to $4,982.45 today. Company paid 100% of healthcare which was included.
My job was to use a grinder tool to grind burrs off the inside of cast aluminum toilet bowls. My head was always in the toilet. I didn't work there that long.
At 21, in 1977, I had three jobs during the summer break. The best of which paid $5.65 for which I drove a panel truck, assisted in piece work, and set traps for rats in the warehouse (and removed the dead bodies).
Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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I had to really think on that one. I was in college, 1973 and making $3/hour at a liquor store.
Worked as much as 50 hours a week, no overtime pay. Making about 14 times that now in my 3rd career.
I should probably answer my own post. I am twenty-one now, and I just got a promotion at one of my two jobs. It is the highest paying wage I've had. It pays 11.10/hr with a weekend differential of $2.25 and evening and night differential of $1.62. My second job pays only $9.68/hr with a 15% differential for evenings/nights and .85 cents for weekends.
To see some people making fifteen, eighteen bucks an hour is sobering. Lol. I wonder if all the higher earners are men though?
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