3.75 at a korean owned dry cleaners

$3.35

I have no idea what minimum wage is these days

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.

$3.35/hour

$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.

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

$4.25 an hour at a cabinet shop

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.

$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? :1orglaugh

2.50 / hour at Dell customer service! damn!

50 shitty paychecks (it was like 3.75USD i think...)

$5.25 my first summer job at Sea World. (1996)

$4.50/hour for me. Back in '95, working on McDonalds.

Boy, I sure do miss those days... "Come on! We need more buns!!!", lol

£1.20 an hour in a butchers when I was 15.

£21 a week back in 1974.

250 usd when i was doing support for lame empoyees

Fucked if I know, never held a min. wage position.

Minimum wage was $1.65 working college jobs in the early 70s, first lugging projectors around campus and then running the college pool room (MUCH better job lol).

First real job was in jr. high, though - picking blueberries for 15 cents a quart. Work all day, you could make more than $2.00 for the day AND get totally sick gorging on blueberries.

My first job paid 20 cents an hour. $8 a week. I was a trainee chef at a top London hotel. I was 15.

damn i see where the older gentlemen are.

Back when I was a kid, I worked at a trophy company for $3.65. Back then, trophies already sucked. Most were made of plastic. I never looked at trophies the same way again.

£3/hour but there wasn't a fixed minimum wage then. Was only introduced here in 1999.

like 5 bucks an hour

'93 - $100 a month.

Was $3.90 I started my first part time summer job at 12!

3.15 per hour. then about 3 months later they raised it to 3.20 and I got a raise for 5 cents. Then I found a job on month 5 that was paying me 5$ per hour with over time if I wanted it. Over time was anything over 8 hours in the day and it was time and a half. Was a great place to work.

I think $2.75. Had special working papers to work when I was 15 in the summer for the school district. Helping clean up desks and floors and such in an elementary school.

Good reply.... Cocky but I like it...

some very humble beginings...

Truth... I've worked for significantly less than minimum wage (interning 3D modeling/design and later music marketing/production) in early high school... and interning taught me to get paid for my time and expertise...

$6.40/hour

$3.35 an hour... but I made more money doing entrepreneurial things at 16.

Very true.

When I was 18 I was working in a department store selling sporting goods for minimum wage - then I got a call. I could do a free internship, five days a week, in the industry where I really wanted to work - if I could start immediately.
I walked into my boss's office and quit the department store job. He said I couldn't quit - I needed to give two week's notice. I told him tough. He waved his finger at me and said "You'll never work in this industry AGAIN!"

I looked at him and said "God, I hope you're right." :1orglaugh

Around 200$/month full time = less than 1$/hour, and that was not so long ago...

6.50 @ Sport Chalet

$3.10 back in 1980.

$2.65 of course I could buy 6 gallons of gas with that.

i made 5.20 an hour bagging groceries. minimum wage was 5.15 though Working Sundays brought in a whopping 7.20 an hour