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16$ an hour working as a welder in 1997. I've since gone back to school and do about twice that now. I know a few people that work at that same fab shop. The old man retired a few years ago and sold out to a bigger company. The guys now only make 14$ doing my exact same job 15 years later.
At 21, I was making 0 dollars. At age 20, I was making 9.00 at a grocery while going through community college to get my basics out of the way. Graduated college in May of 2005. I'm currently making less than 13,000 a year at a full time job as a teacher's aide for an elementary school.
When I was 21 I was at University finishing up but I made $55K that year from various sources. This was the mid 90's. I had done tutoring, worked in a friend's business, owned my own business and invested wisely.
Now I have 2 sources of employment on my own and the SO and we are professionals so we make a nice living!
Let's see.. I was 21 in 2009. Started out making 9.00/hr. I'm still at the same job 3 years later only making 10.02/hr. Yeah our pay raises (once a year) aren't the greatest. Especially for the job(s) I do and things I deal with. As of now I am still in school part time. So hopefully by the time I graduate I'll be making double (at least) what I do now!
My first job out of college was when I was 23, I was recruited by a Fortune 500 company that paid for me to relocate to Chicago to work there. I started in small business sales with a 30,000 base salary. I made 50,000 in my first year.
I was 21 in 1991 and worked two jobs: one paid $5.25/hour at 15 hours a week and the other paid $7.20/hour at 32 hours a week. Went to college in 2001-04 for the B.S/04-06 for the MBA and make much more a year now.
$10,400 a year/$200 a week in 1979, right out of secretarial school.
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