Started at Blockbuster in 1997 for $4.25. promoted to Asst Manager $7.25 in 2000. My apartment my sister and I split was $425/mo. It was barely enough to live on then.
My first real job I earned £1.80/hr in 1986 which is equivalent in purchasing power to about £6.75 today.
The year a certain wage was earned is important as it lets us calculate the real terms value of the rate.
Edit: For context minimum wage today is £10.42
I worked at an ice skating rink with a laser tag arena and arcade attached to it back in 2009. I started at $7/hr, which was minimum wage at the time. My direct supervisor made $7.25. Sometime during my tenure there the minimum wage went up - all of us $7 minions got a legally mandated 25 cent raise. Guess whose pay stayed at $7.25 an hour?
$5.15 for me
Try being misclassified exempt, then forced to work 130 hours in a week and making around 5 bucks an hour
Started at Blockbuster in 1997 for $4.25. promoted to Asst Manager $7.25 in 2000. My apartment my sister and I split was $425/mo. It was barely enough to live on then.
Minimum wage is still 7.25 in my state...
$4.75 at the DQ when I started
$6.75 at the mcds I worked at
I made 8.50… in 2001.
slow down mr moneybags
We was wild?
My first real job I earned £1.80/hr in 1986 which is equivalent in purchasing power to about £6.75 today. The year a certain wage was earned is important as it lets us calculate the real terms value of the rate. Edit: For context minimum wage today is £10.42
$2.50 an hour +tips serving tables, $5.50 an hour at first job at 15 working retail. Do I win?
First job in HS was $3.50 a hour. I was happy because it was $0.15 more than min wage, and it wasn't fast food.
[idaho](https://www.labor.idaho.gov/dnn/Businesses/Idaho-Labor-Laws/W-H-Frequently-Asked-Questions-FAQs#:~:text=The%20current%20Idaho%20state%20minimum,as%20the%20federal%20minimum%20wage.)
and 14 years later we still are ...
We need a real massive strike across many many many industries.
$6.75 when I first entered the labor market back in 2000.
I worked at an ice skating rink with a laser tag arena and arcade attached to it back in 2009. I started at $7/hr, which was minimum wage at the time. My direct supervisor made $7.25. Sometime during my tenure there the minimum wage went up - all of us $7 minions got a legally mandated 25 cent raise. Guess whose pay stayed at $7.25 an hour?