what was minimum wage when you started

[chrislognshot]

for me it was $4.25 and 6 months later was 4.75 since grocery stores in so cal union and rest was $3.75 in 1990.

[Jonnydread]

I started working around 2000 and I think it was $5.15/hr

[scottieb]

$4.25 in 1995/1996 and as a side note EVERY value meal was $2.99, $3.14 with tax. If you wanted to super size to a large (every meal was medium fries and drink) it was $.29 more.

[DocsMachine]

... I remember the first time my dad let me pump gas into the family car, it was $1.49 a gallon.

Doc.

[scottieb]

It was half that for me. I do imagine petrol being more expensive in your neighborhood though.

[bored383]

$3.35

[Grendel]

$2.30 (Summer of '76) not that is what I worked for at the time. I did hand picking of grapes, potatoes and onion and that was work by the piece. I did not start getting paid by the hour until I was 13-14 and it was $2.90 at that point and I was making somewhere north of $4 an hour.

[Hooptie]

$4.10 working at a paintball field.
bonus was free co2 fills and finding the occasional tube of paint.

[Paintslinger16]

3.15 1980

[wunderbarsafari]

$6.75 in CA in 2002

[fierymartel]

2.50 cash in 1982

[Deerslayer]

Bunch of youngsters here. I don't remember minimum wages because the local electrical union would not let me in when I asked back in '76. I had just gotten my electrical contractors license and you had to know someone, be related, or bribe someone. Toughed it out, became a very successful contractor and had the pleasure of telling a number of BA's my story and that were i to join their beeping union, I'd be taking a pay cut...and please get off my job before I call the police. (At least a couple of them agreed with me that back then you had to have pull to get in.) For what it's worth, before the license I was working for $3.00 an hour as a handyman.

[Magmoormaster]

In before thread gets locked for political discussion.

I got my first job in 2010, when minimum wage was....... the same as it is now.

[William the Third]

1998 - $5.15. It was in the kitchen of a retirement home. In NC it's been $7.25 since 2010...

[chrislognshot]

In before thread gets locked for political discussion.

I got my first job in 2010, when minimum wage was....... the same as it is now.

do not make what he said. just post what it was when you got your first job please. lets keep on up and up. do not want to see closed i wanted to see what people where getting paid for first job or what wage was for starting pay. do not want this shut down at all.

[Blackmagic71]

I think I started around $6.50 /hr at Menards Hardware in 2003.

On weekends we got $2.50 more. Big money indeed!