I never made minimum wage

[erub]

My first job was at Dickey's Barbecue, as a bus boy..I made $5.25/hr when minimum was $5.15 (this was in 1998)..I went on to hold various other jobs throughout HS and early college, all paid in the $6-8 range until I put those behind me and was able to get nice engineering internships. Tell me about your minimum wage story

stupid economists

 

[imported_weadjust]

I was paid minimum wage at my first job at Baskin Robbins. It was 2.65 hr. in 1977

 

[jme5343]

Made less. Started working at DQ for $3.85 when minimum wage was $4.25, some exemption that restaurants get. Make considerably more now

 

[FoBoT]

yes, in 1984 when i worked in an arcade part time, while i was in college

i am against the govt. creating artificial wage level with laws like the min. wage law

it isn't necessary in a healthy capitalistic economy

what person with skills would be willing to take a job for min. wage?

 

[Vegitto]

Worked for ?2.50/h last summer. Our laws aren't really clear on minimum wage for people under 18.

 

[sswingle]

I have always been above. Lowest paying just was $6 I think when mimimum was $5.15

I think raising minimum wage is stupid. Its not hard to find something that pays better anyways.

 

[Zolty]

$4.85 busboy at age 14.

 

[z0mb13]

yes in 1998 at the tutorial center in college

 

[Vic]

Yep. When I was 16 or 17, I flipped burgers at an A&W and made $3.35/hr. That's it though.

 

[jmcoreymv]

Nah first job was a technician for Bestbuy which paid ~11 in 2001.

 

[waggy]

yeap. at Mcdonalds at $4.25 an hour. but hey i was 15. it paid for my comic books and what few dates i had.

I would also work part time at my fathers work.

 

[tweakmm]

I've always been paid atleast 2x minimum wage.

 

[bignateyk]

Yep. Started at 5.15 an hour at the local grocery store when i was 16. It sucked. Alot. Moved my way up to 7.35 and hour at the golf course. Once I started college I made my way up to 11.25 an hour doing research. As a grad student I make 21.50 an hour. Nothin great, but pays the bills.

 

[radioouman]

Yes, I had a student job at a community college where I made minimum wage ($5.25). I quickly moved up to $6.25 or so.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

My first job paid $4.68/hr when minimum was $3.75. And I had to pay union dues. Yay... like I couldn't get another $4.68/hr job without the union. God, how I hate unuions.

 

[zebano]

My first job paid $10.00/hour but I couldn't get more than 10 hours per week. I then picked up a second job (junior year of HS) at Boston Market which paid $6.50/hour. 3 months later I was making $7.25/hour and then they went bankrupt (the first time) and closed that store.. lol

I then got to college and worked for 1 year at the dining center making $6.00/hour. It was the nastiest and worst job I've ever had. I next landed an html/js job for $8.50/hour before getting a real internship at $18/hr which became a $50k/year salary when I graduated.


Edit: I forgot that I worked one summer as a waiter at a country club. I made minimum wage, but I once got a "bad tip" from a regular. $25 tip on a $20 meal.

Cliffs:
As a waiter at a posh country club.

 

[trmiv]

Yes. I worked at some kid place that had the indoor tubes, jump house, ball pit, games, etc. I made $4.25 an hour. It SUCKED. I finally got fed up one day and quit on the spot, and got a job at a whopping $5 an hour at a pet store working in the fish department (perfect, because I'm into fish).

 

[Bryophyte]

I had a job that paid, IIRC, $3.10/hour back in 1986. And it was hard work, too.

 

[ElFenix]

The turning point came with a 1994 paper by economists David Card and Alan Krueger, "Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast-Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania." The economists found that employment actually rose in the New Jersey fast-food restaurants they surveyed after the state hiked its higher minimum wage; fast-food employment declined somewhat in Pennsylvania, which kept its minimum wage unchanged.

that is one of the worst studies ever done. what they did was call in to fast food places, and ask the first person who picked up how many people worked there. that's it. they did it a year before the minimum wage hike and a year after the wage hike.

 

[Vegitto]

Originally posted by: bignateyk
Yep. Started at 5.15 an hour at the local grocery store when i was 16. It sucked. Alot. Moved my way up to 7.35 and hour at the golf course. Once I started college I made my way up to 11.25 an hour doing research. As a grad student I make 21.50 an hour. Nothin great, but pays the bills.

Damn, you earn $21.50 an hour. I got ?/$20 A DAY.

 

[BobDaMenkey]

My first job was working for Harkins, the movie theater chain from AZ. Back when they paid all starting employees 5.50 an hour, and after 360 hours, I got a 15 cent raise. That job sucked so bad, but it was a good experiance for me. Definatly made me appriciate my money a whole lot more. Then I got a job about 6 months later at $6 an hour in the mall. MUCH better. Quit that one to focus on school a bit more for a semester, then got another job in the mall making $6 an hour plus commission, which would strech up to $11 or 12 on a good day, but averaged about 9 on checks.

Still working that job now, but at a strip center instead of the mall. Slower out here, but it's better for my schedule. Averaging about $8 an hour every paycheck before taxes, which is just fine for an easy as hell college job.

 

[Atlantean]

I haven't made minimum wage before, first job was $7.50 an hour when min wage was $7.15, since then I haven't worked for less than $11 an hour, and recently got a job for $18 an hour... but still a University student so when I finish, I anticipate making more.

 

[Rumpltzer]

Summer after my senior year in high school. I had two jobs. One was full-time at $5.50 and the other was part-time $4.10 (the minimum at the time) doing night stocking at a local grocery. It was easy and the night went quickly. No complaints.

I did another grocery stint the summer after my freshman year of college (along with my full-time internship). I don't remember what that paid, but it was probably close to minimum wage.

I did Disney in Orlando after junior year of college (along with my full-time internship). That was the best job I've ever had... and it paid like $6.10/hr. If I had another life to just completely waste, I'd have ditched college and worked for Disney for the rest of my life.

 

[HomeAppraiser]

Workstudy at the university computer center was minimum wage. When the Feds raised it about 10% at the begining of the 1990 calander year, our student manager was pulling his hair out "OMG I have to fire 10% of you. The budget, it's too small." Of course the University picked up the tab.

 

[Danman]

Nope. My first job was as a cabinet helper, mostly helping with wood and formica. Started at $7.50/hr. Was pretty good for hard manual labor, and I thought it was interesting.