what did your first job pay?

[WalterMitty]

$5/hour in 1996.

$7.32 in today's $

[WalterMitty]

$8 an hour in 2008.

I make minimum wage now.

are you the one that has been working at a mcdonald's for years?  and you only make minimum wage?

i was hired at wendy's and make above the massachusetts minimum wage (which is $8). 

i dont get it?

[WalterMitty]

$90 a week for almost a 40 hour week.

im guessing this was the late 70s?

that translates to about $340 in today's dollars

[WalterMitty]

$8 an hour in 2008.

I make minimum wage now.

are you the one that has been working at a mcdonald's for years?  and you only make minimum wage?

i was hired at wendy's and make above the massachusetts minimum wage (which is $8). 

i dont get it?

I worked at McDonald's for four years, but I no longer work there. The job I currently have pays $7.25 an hour.

so you took a pay cut to leave mcdonalds?