[Graybeard58]

In the mid to late 50s, I worked for 50¢ an hour and remember my dad telling me that he had worked for 50¢ per day during the depression and was happy to have the job.

My job was farm labor, his was working in a cotton gin.

When I enlisted in 1963, I made $69 a month but by my last month in service, in '67, I was making a whopping $220 per month.

[arthurus]

$90 month in 1966. I don’t remember what I got when I exited 4 years later.