To: GSWarrior
During haying, we were paid $2/hour and fed lunch by the farmer. The minimum wage at that time was $1.15 if working in gas station or super market.
15 posted on
03/15/2012 12:07:45 PM PDT by
BIGLOOK
(Keelhaul Congress!)
To: BIGLOOK
I made $5 an hour and got lunch for working on the farm when minimum wage was $3.35 an hour. If it was particularly hot, the farmer paid us $7 an hour. Its was good money under the table in 1984. Back then, the farmer's pre teen sons were driving the tractors while we baled hay or picked rocks. They were too young for the physical labor but they were already safe machinery operators.
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21 posted on
03/15/2012 12:23:27 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: BIGLOOK
During haying, we were paid $2/hour and fed lunch by the farmer. The minimum wage at that time was $1.15 if working in gas station or super market.I got a penny a bale (and lunch)...'course, I might be older than you, but it was reasonable at the time...1000 bales a day was the expected minimum...
24 posted on
03/15/2012 12:29:59 PM PDT by
and so?
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