$100 a week, take home pay ( after taxes ) didn’t pay for rent, electricity, phone, and food in the 1960s! And I should know...my first apartment, in the mid ‘60s, was $135 a month for a one bedroom! Throw in food/groceries, insurance, travel, laundry, clothes, etc.; not to mention savings ( I’ve ALWAYS had a savings account...from childhood onwards ) and I’d never have been able to live where I did, pay my bills, and saving anything would have been a pipedream.
When I made under $100 a week, it was at WOR-Radio working for the FM station and Dr. Meltzer - remember him? Awful man! Around 1975 I guess, my first job.
It didn’t pay for nuthin’ even though both the subway and Coke cost about 35 cents a pop.