$937.44 per week in 2025 dollars. $49K per year. For assembling cars that come back to life after sitting in a field for decades, too.
And that 937.44 is in “2025 Dollars” only in one sense. The Fed loves to discuss and compare fiat dollars to a gold backed dollar. But that is not the full story. 30 dollars a week would have bought 1.5 ounces of gold every payday.
Today that stunt would set the worker back 4150 bucks.
The worker back then was able to be assured that money could not have it’s value inflated away.
“For assembling cars that come back to life after sitting in a field for decades, too.”
Ain’t that the truth? Fast forward 90 years and try that with a car from today.