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My first job I made 5.25, my second 7.25.

yes, many times

Most of us here should be old enough to have made that if you worked in your teens

Summer job while in grad school. My family owned a small, independent gas station/convenience store. I worked the register and as a maintenance person.

It was an important life experience for me both in dealing with the public and respect for those thankless workers that keep society functioning.

Until 28 I think.

My first job started at minimum wage, I got a few raises in the first few years, and then just stopped getting raises, so minimum wage was starting to catch up to me.

My current job started at about minimum wage (might have been a tiny bit more, but not by much). I get a raise every 500 hours worked, but the raises are small enough that for a while there minimum wage kept catching up to me, but last year my union made a new agreement, so that when minimum wage goes up, all of our wages go up by the same amount. It was also retroactive, so we all (other than recent hires) got a wage increase when it happened.

As a note, I live in Canada, and specifically Manitoba, so minimum wage here is currently $15.30/hour, and it goes up every October.

Less. And younger than legal too.

It was for my dad, which is some kind of loophole.

I remember I worked for minimum at a DQ as a teen. The minimum wage was increased and the owner counted that as giving me a raise.

Only as a teenager in school. Never as an adult.

Im not even sure if it would be possible where I live now. Despite federal minimum wage being $7.25 the absolute lowest teenage jobs around here hire on at around $12 to $14 these days from everything I have seen. And I live in bumfuck nowhere in the Midwest where cost of living is low.

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Most of us here should be old enough to have made that if you worked in your teens

To be fair, it's been at that level for so long that I don't at all blame CEmen for just never stopping to wonder exactly how long.

For example, old people always used to talk about how Russia used to be called the USSR, and in my brain that was just sort of in that mishmash of time before I was born/aware of things, so it surprised me to learn that the Soviet Union actually fell during my lifetime.

Likewise, I can totally see people who don't remember the last time minimum wage rose just sort of filing that away in the mishmash of stuff that happened an irrelevantly long time ago.

I've worked for sub-minimum wage + tips a lot. Also had a courier job which paid per delivery, under the table. When i added up the hours and pay it definitely was working out to below minimum wage most of the time, so I didn't stay there long.

Yep, at a Salvation Army thrift store.

Thanks to my aunt being a top regional manager at the time, I only worked on Saturdays, so as expected, I built up money slowly.

Needless to say, I don't miss it at all.

Late teens and early twenties I often worked under the table a lot.

Yes, working summer jobs as a teenager.

I mean yeah I was a teenager

Yes even as an adult. Luckily I've been well above minimum wage for quite a long time now.

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

Less. And younger than legal too.

This.

I also find it weird that you separate teens and adults, as if teens cant be adults.

Yes, at my internship I had to do for college in my early 20s. The shitty thing was it was originally non-paid one, but they offered me minimum wage a few weeks in since they wanted me to stick around longer. Man, I hated that job.

It's pretty pathetic that the minimum wage is still the same rate that it was 10 years ago when I was at this job. My state is shit and refuses to raise it.

I did back when I was in high school, I worked at a local amusement park for a couple summers.

I was a bagger then a cashier at a grocery store from 16-18. I was laid 5.25/hour I believe. Then 6.10 i think, when Texas raised their minimum wage.

I imagine that the top answer is going to be getting more and more common as Top level execs continue to increase their compensation packages while increasing value for share holders so trim the wages of EVERY SINGLE employee they can

My very 1st job which was at McDonald's

Yes, between the ages of 16 and 21.

parisdolphin posted...

My very 1st job which was at McDonald's

When I worked at McDonalds they paid above minimum wage. Not by much, granted, but it was slightly higher.

No. First job started at $28 an hour, but that was at 26.

Maybe if you count a graduate assistantship in grad school, but I dont think Id count a stipend as a wage as it wasnt a regular pay check or anything.

I have. Oddly my first job paid a quarter more despite the owner being cheap. Hell I got laid off just cause his profit margin dipped the month before.