When You Were A Teenager...How Much Did You Make?!?

Question

How much every week, two weeks, and/or month did you make at your teen part time job?

Just curious xoxo

Answer 1

I got my first job as a car hop at a rootbeer stand, it was 1974, and I was 13 years old,I made 85 cents an hour plus tips, and trust me back then tips were a quarter.

When I turned 16 I worked at Americana, which was an amusement park, I made 200.00 a week salary, but I worked open to close 6 days a week.

Answer 2

When I was 13 (1966), I started mowing lawns and working for a lot of farmers, cutting weeds out of soybean fields with a hoe, and bailing hay.  The following year, I started shelling corn.  Bailing hay and shelling corn were hard physical labor, and back then most of the jobs paid $1.25 or $1.50 per hour.

For a summer job when I was 19, after my first year of college, I worked for Burlington Northern Railroad, on a crew of about 50 guys, repairing track.  My job was driving spikes with a maul.  The job started at 6 A.M. and paid $3.69 per hour, which seemed like big bucks to me at the time.  It was a good workout--there was no need to have a health club membership.  Several guys tried driving spikes, but lasted less than a day.  The first day, even though I was already in good shape, my forearms burned with an intense pain.  By the middle of the second day, the burning started to subside, and I knew I was going to make it.  We worked through the summer heat and hard, blinding rain that was so thick visibility was nil.  After about 15 minutes of the relentless downpour, the foreman would decide the rain was not going to let up, and would let us go home for the day, with 8 hours pay.  We felt like kids who had just copped a snow day off from school.

Answer 3

not much I think I made about 1800 per mo