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DelMarVa's Premier Source for News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349
1981 BK $5.00 and hour. It was prime pay for a 17 year old back then.
ReplyDelete$1.70 in 1980 at Perdue Chicken Plant in Georgetown. Now has been taken over by the illegals/Sad/!!!Ray!!!
ReplyDelete1.50 per hour in 1977 at McDonalds when I was a teenager.
ReplyDelete2.90 and got a 60 cent raise in 6 months 1979
ReplyDelete$1.65/hr - 1972 - Lachman's Pharmacy - birth control pills also cost $1.65/month at the same time.
ReplyDelete4.15 an hour in 1991 at a landscape nursery
ReplyDelete1.35 in 1972 food kiosk in the old mall.
ReplyDelete4.25 in 1993 at Outten Bros.
ReplyDeleteMade $7.50 working summer construction (concrete foundations for homes in NOVA) in 1985 even after they found out I was still in High School. Couldn't work 40 full hours under 18 in construction back then. So 39 1/2 worked out very very well!
ReplyDelete1.00 an hour babysitting in '73!!!Geri!!!
ReplyDelete1995 working summers in ocean city during high school. Making 8.00 hour plus tips
ReplyDeleteNo one else wants to work in a chicken processing plant. Maybe if you had a degree, you could have worked in the main office at Perdue.
ReplyDelete$3.35 1981 McDonald's
ReplyDelete.50 cents an hour in 1954.
ReplyDelete50 cents/hour in 1961. In 1971 I applied at Kellam Propane Gas and the manager, Earl Murray, bragged that, "Why, we even have some employees here making $2.00 per hour!"
ReplyDelete$2.10 in 1976 to cut grass
ReplyDeleteFirst h.s. job, 1973, $1.65/hr at the local hardware store for delivering lawn mowers and other small engine repairs. find a hardware store that does that, today...
ReplyDeleteFirst Job out of college, 1980, $12,500 / yr as a pilot trainee, usaf.
.50 cents and hour usher at movie theater in Baltimore 1966 Got .75 cents to clean theater on Sunday mornings
ReplyDelete$1.90/hr. Tastee Freeze. 1974. I was 14. Lots of good times there!!
ReplyDelete1.00/hr. 1967, Trimpers rides in OC.
ReplyDelete1.60 pumping gas at Keyes Amoco on Rt.13. It's gone now. I was 17 then, and got promoted 3 months after I started, and a 25 cent raise. Was funny as I was 17 and telling these dweeb college kids how to pump gas, run the register, etc. They didn't like being told by a Junior in high school how to do their job. But they were to inept and listened..
ReplyDeleteI still say to this day, it was the most enjoyable job I ever had. Never knew what would happen next on any given day. I could write a book on all the wild stuff that happened their.
Ole Don Keyes
Delete2.04 in 1973
ReplyDeleteMy first job was at English Grill back in 1966. I can't remember the pay wage but I loved the tips back then. (map)
ReplyDelete$10 at UPS 2006. 16 yrs old.
ReplyDeletePlanting dynamite charges in 1967.I was 14 & recall getting paid $1.25 per hour.Dynamiting won out over dredging because it was drastically cheaper.
ReplyDelete1952- Ayers Diner on the Blvd - $3 per evening for 4 hr shift (5 PM - 9 PM) on Friday and Saturday - age 15.
ReplyDelete$1.25 at McDonald's in 1969! Dropped that for not enough hours and went to Ace Hardware for more hours at the same money.
ReplyDeleteIn 1981, $4.50 an hour working construction for my uncle.
ReplyDelete75 cents an hour. 1969.
ReplyDeleteCutting tobacco for the richest man in the county.
Some things never change.
1992. McDonald's, 4.25/he...was so much fun all teenagers working and having a good time.
ReplyDelete120 ton drawbench operator, 1971, $7.35 per hour night shift, plus production bonuses, which could add up to $15 per shift.
ReplyDelete$75.00 a week in 1966'
ReplyDelete$3.25/hr farmwork 1973. 14 yrs. old.
ReplyDelete$3.50/hour 1995 at 13 working in family's boardwalk business. Went up when I was 16 and could work the funnel cake fryer.
ReplyDelete1957 made $.50 an hour @ age 13 working in a sandwich stand with no tips! Loved it......so many good memories!!!
ReplyDelete$1.25 per hour loading hay bales on farms-1967. included a lunch of 2 hotdogs, chips and a bottle of grape soda.
ReplyDelete1964 $1.25 and hr. Montgomery Wards NEW store on Rt. 13 South...
ReplyDelete$2.35 a hour in 1996
ReplyDelete6.50 an hour in 1978, carpenter in oc, I was 16. Worked summers and after school till dark.
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