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Dwreck · 11-29-2010, 03:42 PM

How much was Minimum Wage at your first *ReAL* job not including new newspaper routes or babysitting?

For me in Canada is was 5.50 an hour... its double that now...

candyflip · 11-29-2010, 03:43 PM

$4.15 scrubbing dishes at a party house until 3 am on the weekends...when I was 14.

I don't think that would be legal today...not sure if it was then either.

The Dawg · 11-29-2010, 03:46 PM

$4 an hour at my job.

baddog · 11-29-2010, 03:46 PM

When I started working at the telephone company I got like $2.35 or something like that, and that was a union job. So I guess minimum was even less.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0774473.html Guess min was $1.60

beerptrol · 11-29-2010, 03:51 PM

summer job when I was 14 $3.50/hr baling hay(stacking hay) and other jobs for a farmer

CDSmith · 11-29-2010, 03:55 PM

It was around $2.90/hr when I got my first job ('78).

Only a few months later it went all the way up to a whopping $3.10/hr.

By the time I was on to my 3rd job ('82) it was up to something like $3.50/hr but I was making more than that by then.

_Richard_ · 11-29-2010, 04:03 PM

$8.25! i believe that has stayed the same, but with a 'trainee hour' period of 500 hours at $5

Nicky · 11-29-2010, 04:05 PM

Had a offline job during the summer of 98 when I was 15, paid me just about $10 per hour.

BruceM · 11-29-2010, 04:07 PM

$5.00 CDN I think, back in 1990

atom · 11-29-2010, 04:07 PM

$3.85 at BK when i was 15.

quiet · 11-29-2010, 04:07 PM

4.50/hr in Alberta Canada, would have been around '89.

looky_lou · 11-29-2010, 04:09 PM

$1.25 hr. Makes me feel real old.

Vendzilla · 11-29-2010, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by baddog

When I started working at the telephone company I got like $2.35 or something like that, and that was a union job. So I guess minimum was even less.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0774473.html Guess min was $1.60

$2.10 for me, but I was making $3 an hour at a gas station

docputer · 11-29-2010, 04:15 PM

$1.60 washing cars at the local GM dealership.

Jdoughs · 11-29-2010, 04:18 PM

About $4.25 an hour, I was 14. A&W downtown Jasper Ave in Edmonton.

DamianJ · 11-29-2010, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by baddog

When I started working at the telephone company I got like $2.35 or something like that, and that was a union job. So I guess minimum was even less.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0774473.html Guess min was $1.60

Yeah, but to be fair Lloyd, life was in black and white then.

;)

FlexxAeon · 11-29-2010, 04:21 PM

$4.25, Target food court

came home smelling like hamburger everyday

LeRoy · 11-29-2010, 04:21 PM

I worked at my friends dad's machine shop.

It was during the summer when I was in the 8th grade.

I made 2.50 an hour

Grapesoda · 11-29-2010, 04:23 PM

$1.40 for me

bns666 · 11-29-2010, 04:51 PM

more than the current average right now in porn

fatfoo · 11-29-2010, 04:57 PM

If you are a commission-based salesperson such as a door-to-door seller of newspapers, you could walk around all day and make zero dollars.

Updated: 10/01/10

These minimum wages are the minimum hourly wage rates set by the provinces and territories in Canada for experienced adult workers.

Province General Wage More Employment Standards
Alberta $8.80 Alberta Employment and Immigration
BC $8.00 B.C. Ministry of Labour
Manitoba $9.50 Manitoba Labour
New Brunswick $9.00 New Brunswick Employment Standards
Newfoundland $10.00 Labour Relations Agency
NWT $9.00
Nova Scotia $9.65 Environment and Labour
Nunavut $10.00
Ontario $10.25 Ministry of Labour
PEI $9.00 Community Services, Seniors and Labour
Quebec $9.50 Commission des normes du travail
Saskatchewan $9.25 Saskatchewan Labour
Yukon $8.93

Nasty · 11-29-2010, 05:03 PM

2.19 washing dishes at a hotel/casino in lake tahoe, early 70's

GTS Mark · 11-29-2010, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by quiet

4.50/hr in Alberta Canada, would have been around '89.

Same here

BlackCrayon · 11-29-2010, 05:05 PM

5.50 here too

FlexxAeon · 11-29-2010, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by bm bradley

$1.40 for me

god damn what were you a matrie D' at the Last Supper??

kane · 11-29-2010, 05:27 PM

I worked at a gas station/convience store pumping gas, stocking shelves and doing whatever needed to be done. When I started I made $3.35/hr about 3-4 months later the state raised the minimum wage so I got a raise to $3.50/hr

Rochard · 11-29-2010, 05:40 PM

I think it was like $3.50 or so.... Man that was a long time ago!

GrouchyAdmin · 11-29-2010, 05:42 PM

I have no clue anymore, but I do remember buying frozen premade meals since it was cheaper than the fast food, or even the grocery store nearby.

CYF · 11-29-2010, 05:45 PM

it was right around $5.00 an hour if I remember right.

Grapesoda · 11-29-2010, 05:52 PM

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Originally Posted by FlexxAeon

god damn what were you a matrie D' at the Last Supper??

started working when I was 12

moeloubani · 11-29-2010, 05:54 PM

5 i think here in canada or something around that i remember when a $10 an hour job was something nice then $20 an hour was like youre going to be rich if you have that job now no one could get me to go back to a regular job for any less than $40 an hour and even then i would have to seriously consider it

thickcash_amo · 11-29-2010, 05:56 PM

I think it was somewhere around 4.75 or 5.00....either way it sucked!

seeandsee · 11-29-2010, 06:14 PM

probably 1$, bad country

brassmonkey · 11-29-2010, 06:20 PM

some of these are way too low. i think i got like $4.65

Spunky · 11-29-2010, 06:34 PM

I think it was around 5 bucks an hour

Cyandin · 11-29-2010, 10:21 PM

$5 per hour working on a ranch when I was 14, doing all sorts of shit ranging from painting fences, stretching fence wire, digging trenches to lay conduit, trimming pepper trees with a pole saw. It was really hard work, but it did sure as hell build character.

bl4h · 11-29-2010, 10:25 PM

mcdonalds $5.75

* not counting all the food i ate and the happy meal toys i tossed in the fry vats

GAMEFINEST · 11-29-2010, 10:39 PM

4.75 at mcdonalds

BSleazy · 11-29-2010, 10:54 PM

Something like 5.50 at burger king back in high school. The way shits going I might be back there

Agent 488 · 11-29-2010, 11:00 PM

ten cents.

Poindexterity · 11-29-2010, 11:41 PM

3.75 at a korean owned dry cleaners

Seth Manson · 11-29-2010, 11:45 PM

$3.35

I have no idea what minimum wage is these days

garce · 11-29-2010, 11:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dwreck

How much was Minimum Wage at your first *ReAL* job not including new newspaper routes or babysitting?

For me in Canada is was 5.50 an hour... its double that now...

Minimum wage isn't $11.00 an hour in Ontario unless you were a hunting or fishing guide. http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/info/minimumwage/

I first worked at Canadian Tire pumping pumping gas in 1979. I have no idea what my pay was. It was a lot back then, though.

Amputate Your Head · 11-29-2010, 11:50 PM

$3.35/hour

Mutt · 11-30-2010, 12:14 AM

$2.75/hr at a door factory when I was 15 - summer of 78 or 79. and it seemed just as shitty then to me as it does 30 years later. place was filled with immigrants just off the boat and a few white kids like me. i'd have been much better off selling golf balls or with a lemonade stand.

EthnicLover · 11-30-2010, 12:19 AM

$4.25/hr delivering pizzas. I made good money with the tips though. Loved that job.

oscer · 11-30-2010, 12:28 AM

$4.25 an hour at a cabinet shop

Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life · 11-30-2010, 12:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by quiet

4.50/hr in Alberta Canada, would have been around '89.

I was getting minimum wage of $5.95 in '98 at my first job, living in Alberta. I think alberta is only $7/hr now? Or have they gone up again recently? Either way, for being the richest province by far, they were always the lowest minimum wage in the country.

Whoop, just looked it up, Alberta is at $8.80 now and BC is trailing the back at $8, AB is second lowest now. I'm pretty sure I heard talk a while back about BC pushing for a minimum wage hike again though. Probably due in for one with the new HST and Alberta having given themselves a recent bump.

Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life · 11-30-2010, 12:45 AM

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Originally Posted by garce

Minimum wage isn't $11.00 an hour in Ontario unless you were a hunting or fishing guide. http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/info/minimumwage/

I first worked at Canadian Tire pumping pumping gas in 1979. I have no idea what my pay was. It was a lot back then, though.

$10.25/hr, close enough. Highest minimum wage in Canada by $.60/hr if you discount Nunavut, I mean, who gives a fuck about Nunavut? I guess that means you can quit mooching money from Alberta now?

CPA37710T · 11-30-2010, 12:49 AM

2.50 / hour at Dell customer service! damn!

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