what was minimum wage for your 1st job?

[mandy0810]

$6.00 plus tips. I was a carhop at Sonic

[Deleted]

I think it was 7 something an hour. I worked in a Dairy Queen. This was in NJ in the 90s.

[MixedBerryJam]

CHART

$1.60 in 1972 when I was 16, but I started earlier than that under the table in my parish's rectory.

ETA: I just realized what "working under the table in my parish's rectory" sounds like. Ewwww.

[Kristinmo]

$7.50 at Bed Bath and Beyond. I was 18

[Deleted]

Pretty sure it was $4.25 for my first job at Round Table Pizza.  Then I got a $0.25 raise with my promotion to line supervisor in the kitchen. LOL

[dirtyred]

$2.25.  I am old.

[TrickyBob]

$6.00, I was 16. Though I think minimum wage was $5.15 or $5.25 at the time.

[fuckyourcouch]

My first job wasn't minimum wage, but my first minimum wage job was 5.85/hour I think (it was work study at my university). A while later I worked at bed bath and beyond for about 6 months and it was around 7.00/hour

[Deleted]

4:50. I got a raise to 5.25 and thought I was the shit.

[agnes]

I don't really remember what I made back then. I know it was above min wage. Not sure how much as a file clerk, though.

Google says California min wage was $5.75 in 2000.

[underwaterrhymes]

LOL.

$3.80

[game blouses]

I made $7, but that was above minimum wage at the time (I think it was $6.50 or $6.75)

[polka]

$4.25/hour

[suzyp]

$3.35 - Grocery store in 1989. I was 14.

[cutecloud]

I made $6.50 but minimum wage was $5.15. I worked at McDonalds in a mall food court.

[revolution]

$3.80

[wannabe]

Oct 2, 2013 13:42:14 GMT -5 toledo said:

Same - $3.35. At Burger King. Holla.

Burger King was my first job too! Dude, did you have to wear that godawful orange/brown plaid polyester uniform with that stupid hat too?

[stephlove]

I was making $8-something in my first job during high school. It was over minimum wage, but not much. This was in 2005...

[murdock]

$4.25
Early nineties

[Yankees21]

Mine was $5.15, working as a courtesy clerk at a grocery store when I was 14.

[Deleted]

$3.35/hr. In 1986.

[amberlyrose]

$5.15 in 2003 at a Subway/TCBY shop. I got a .25 raise and was so freaking excited!

I remember my first job at $7- I thought I was rich! Lol.

[joshlyman]

$5.25 at a toy store (I was 15)

[mie]

I think it was $5.50.

[statlerwaldorf]

$5.15 at McDonalds. When I was promoted to manager, I made $6.20. This was back in 2002-2005.

[Deleted]

I think it was $4.25.

[rfs13]

I think I started at $5.05 back in 1995 (I was just about to turn 16)

[rugbywife]

$6.85 in 1997

[ruffles]

5.15 food service for Knotts Berry Farm.

[Deleted]

I think it was $5.25 at a local pizza joint in the mall.