Nuff said…

People talk about the $15/hr pay rate like it’s some magic number…

I know I’m an old fart, but ‘my’ starting pay rate was $1.25/hr in 1965…

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Now before you say this is all bullshit…

The link for current pay is HERE.

Edit- Apparently this didn’t go up on time this morning.  Sorry!

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Nuff said… — 18 Comments

  1. OldNFO, that also doesn’t take into account the burger flipper will only work 6 to 8 hours per day while our AD military can be worked up to 16 hours per day and (when I as on AD) sometimes even longer reducing further that hourly wage

    Sarge, Out

  2. And you are on call 24 hours a day. As a Marine I couldn’t roll over and say, “It’s not my shift.” Spent 52 days aboard a ship during a cruise in the Caribbean sleeping in a narrow steel bunk stacked 6 high. An old salt suggested that I take the top bunk in case if someone got seasick. Hostile ships and submarines in the area made the experience a little tense. All for a lot less that $15/hour.

  3. Burger flippers should be drafted…

    It would give them some appreciation of the value of a lot of things.

  4. I recently came across my old federal tax forms from 1978, when I was a TSgt (E-6). The ex-wife’s and my JOINT gross income that year was a whopping $10,816.85 (not counting quarters allowance and separate rats)… and I was NEVER happier in my entire life.

    Full disclosure: the ex- and I married in June of ’78, right after she graduated from college.

  5. If I recall correctly, pay in basic was either $92 or $98 per month. That was 1966.
    I think that’s a bit less than 50 cents an hour for an eight hour day.

  6. +1 to LL. My first job in ’71 was at $1.65/hour, and – if memory serves – pay as a E-1 in ’73 was $307.20/month.

    The burger flippers have no clue whatsoever.

  7. All of the above have bet me to the punch. One of my earliest jobs, off the family farm, was as a strawberry picker. The rate of pay was ten cents per flat. I crawled on my hands and knees all day to make one dollar, and left with a smile on my face.

  8. Flipping burgers should be a stepping stone, not a career. In my teens, I bucked hay bales for two cents a bale. Motivated me to find something better. When I felt sorry for myself, remembered standing on that slip behind the discharge chute of a New Holland Self Propelled bailer spitting out 3,000 bales a day. I laughed all the way through Army Basic training.

  9. My USAF starting pay in 1963 was $78.00 per month as E1, I got promoted to E2 & it was $85.80 per month! When I was on the flight line repairing and signing off the red X’s on the fuel systems of line F106 aircraft, I was making about $300.00 per month.

  10. I too did most of the above, picking strawberries, bucking hay, worked in a gas station for $5 a 10 hour day and later working at a job for min pay of $1.25 hour. I don’t remember what my navy base pay was but I do remember receiving $65 a month combat pay.

  11. In 1965, your $1.25/hr was equivalent to 5 quarters per hour – each of which was 90% silver … now worth roughly $4 each.
    Q

  12. It pisses my off to hear their are jobs I will not do.
    I have done some real crappy jobs because I needed to help feed two brothers and two sisters.

    I am cross posting this

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