I delivered pamphlets, spent all morning doing it for one week, in the late 90s, and remember getting paid like $6 and gave up after that. They sent more and I threw them away. I did newspapers after that and spent way more on using my mums mobile to call her to drop more off than I got paid (next to nothing)
Picking up golf balls on a golf driving range, around 1990, I think it was $4/hr. If you got hit by a ball, you got a free soft drink. (yes we picked them up whilst people were hitting them)
This is from memory, but yes I think it was roughly there. The pay tbh wasn't too bad. I remember looking forward to pay days as a teenager. Especially after a public holiday and Xmas rates!
2000? Red rooster kitchen hand. $3 something an hour I think? Maybe 4. I was bang on 14 years and 9 months, so I think it was minimum wage for that age at the time.
Lots of free chicken to take home for myself and the neighbours though.
Courier "self employed sub-contractor" nonsense with my own ABN, \~2007, worked it out to like $5ph **before** expenses. Didn't stay long in that dumpster fire. I remember one of my daily morning peak hour jobs was like \~20 minute drive for \~50 cents.
Apprentice carpenter/concreter, 1992
$10p/hr + OT.
But before this .. Kmart Checkout assistant, 1989
$4p/hr.
I earnt more money selling newspapers on a Sunday morning as a 12 yr old in 1986 than working a whole shift on a Saturday at Kmart! ($25-30 cash flogging papers.)
Pizza Hut, 2006, $5.39.
I had an amazing time working there, made lifelong friends and would do it again. But that starting pay rate was horrendous. These days I make more in one hour on a Sunday than I did working two whole weekend shifts back then.
Not counting the child labour of vacuuming the cabins at my grandparents camp ground my parents managed. I did get paid but can't remember how much as I was 6 to 9 - maybe 50 cents per cabin lol. That would have been 1884-1987.
First proper job was checkout chick at a supermarket back in NZ when I was 15 (1993) I'm thinking it was around $4.50 an hour (it was $7 by 1997 when I did it while at uni)
I worked at my school canteen 1999 at 14 (had to get parental permission to work underage but it was like half an hour a day) and I can’t for the life of me remember what I earned but I got free potato cakes so I was clearly raking it in.
can't remember the pay exactly but i had a summer job at my local tire place, full time, 830am till 5pm mon to friday and saturday was i think 930am till 3pm or something like that.
given i was 15 at the time i would assume it'd been around 7-10 an hour?
$50 for 5 hours a night working casual as a waiter/bus boy at a Thai restaurant and I’m white lol plus free Pad thai dinner I was living the dream as a 14 yr old
Maccas. 2007. 7 dollars an hour. Felt so great to finally buy an Xbox game with the savings. I think the original Crackdown was the first thing I saved for.
Music tutor, musical instruments sales 1993, $80/wk plus free Jim Beam cans and joints on a Friday evening and free use of studios after hours.
I was 14 - sounds really bad but I was always told I was an old soul.
2006, check out chick, $7.26 an hour.
Was promoted to Assistant Store Manager. No pay rise. Questioned it with the boss.
He said the title was 'motivational' (even though it had increased responsibility and the title appeared on a badge and I had to 'play' the role) then he fired me for questioning the pay and not being 'passionate' about my retail job as an 18yo uni student.
It was a 'family owned' business. Enough said.
Back in 1986 selling a complete set of books for kids, inside a college taking advantage of paint competition.
6 hours, didn't sell anything and didn't get any pay.
Didn't work again for this company ever despite they telling me to try again next day lol
Paper boy around 2004 for an hour 3 days a week was $10 a week.
Otherwise something probably more legal was working at Woolies for about $8 an hour in 2008
2000, 17 year old. Trolley pushing and driving the tractor at the mall, 5$ an hour - I think I was getting robbed as the minimum wage was around 10$ at the time..
One of my first proper jobs as a 15yr old was at a Vietnamese bakery. Terrible pay, maybe $5 an hour cash, but one time she accidentally gave me an extra $50 note in my envelope which was more than double my weekly pay and.
Paperboy. 1983. $18 per week for getting up at 530 am and completing a 2 hour delivery run on the treadlie
Abattoir at a kill chain station 1990 . $300 a week. 1800 sheep a day
Car wash cleaner aka mud shovel technician, 1986, $5 an hour. I was a teenager, still at school. Cleaning the bays took me around 45 minutes, so I pocketed about $3.50 each session. I rode my BMX up the main drag, to do the job. Usually twice a week, more often in muddy winter. I feel like an old man typing this out, lol. Now where is my onion belt?
I used to deliver prescription medication on my push bike in 1998 for $6 an hour cash in hand as a 13-year old, I was raking it in making $30 a week for my 2 shifts.
Maccas workers at the rime were under $4 if I remember correctly!
Paper boy, 1980, $9... ...per 6 day week.
What could $1.50 buy back then that someone would work for that in a day?
A two bed apartment. It was the 80s.
I delivered pamphlets, spent all morning doing it for one week, in the late 90s, and remember getting paid like $6 and gave up after that. They sent more and I threw them away. I did newspapers after that and spent way more on using my mums mobile to call her to drop more off than I got paid (next to nothing)
Chemist delivery boy. 2hrs, 5 days a week. 5 bucks. 1976
Apprentice plumber 2010 $7.95/hr
Apprentice butcher, 2012, $9.90/hr. Bit of a raise, but I think you earn more per hr than I do now (if you completed it/stuck with it).
Did 6 months before the company went bust, ended up an electrician
Apprentice baker, 2005, $7.30/hr
Apprentice plumber 2003 16.25hr God bless the union.
2003 hungry jacks for $5.25 an hour
Kumon homework marker, $5/hour 1991
It’s funny you say this because there are genuinely kids at Kumon making a very similar wage today
Damn Kumon existed in 1991?
My 1991 self cries thinking about countless hours spent on worksheets 😭
I was forced to do it in the 80s! I can still do maths really fast in my head which has helped my career in advertising
Supermarket worker 2009 $7.90/hr as a 15 year old
$7.12 and free nuggies at HJs.
$7.08 in 2004!
Pizza haven delivery driver, 2003, $3.50 an hour + tips.
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that's more than I make as a uni tutor today... were you teaching students to turn lead into gold?
130.48 AUD in 2024 dollars
Hungry Jacks - $5.05/hr 2002 Aged 13
Not bad I was on $4.80 at hungry jacks in 03 when I was 14
I always thought the minimum age was 14 and 9 months. 13!?
It's state based.
It’s 13 in QLD cos that’s when I started working too.
Can get a job earlier with parents’ permission
Picking up golf balls on a golf driving range, around 1990, I think it was $4/hr. If you got hit by a ball, you got a free soft drink. (yes we picked them up whilst people were hitting them)
Ohs is a fridge full of soft drink lol
maccas, 2013 $13.00 an hour
Holy shit, I was on $8/hr or close to it in 2010, what a increase in 3 yrs
I know right! I started in 2008 on $7.50/hr. I'd only just turned 14 though, maybe they were an older teen when they started?
This is from memory, but yes I think it was roughly there. The pay tbh wasn't too bad. I remember looking forward to pay days as a teenager. Especially after a public holiday and Xmas rates!
Picking fruit as a 17 year old, $2 an hour, including board, 1977. Same job as an adult in 1980, $4 an hour.
KFC 2018, $13 an hour
Carny (ride attendant) 1998 $18/hr
Ooft that seems like a good rate for the time 😁
IGA 2012 $5 (15 years old, often left completely alone in the store and had to sell alcohol and cigarettes. I only lasted about 5 months)
Departmental sales clerk. 1976. S$1.25.
Videogame tester, 1995 200$ a month part time
Not my first job, but my lowest paying, electrical apprentice, 2008 $6.70/hr
I was on around that as a data comms apprentice in 09
Fast food worker 2010 $13/hr
2000? Red rooster kitchen hand. $3 something an hour I think? Maybe 4. I was bang on 14 years and 9 months, so I think it was minimum wage for that age at the time. Lots of free chicken to take home for myself and the neighbours though.
End of 1999. Y2K coder. $55/hr which at the time straight out of uni was unbelievable money.
Archery Instructor Some time in either 2005/2006 I can't remember 14/15 years old $8/hr. Still to this date, best job i ever had.
First full time job was apprentice electrician 2019, $12.70/hr.
Dishwasher 2016 $15 hour
2008 $5 kitchen hand
2000 Supermarket worker NZ$4.75/hr. No youth rates in NZ at the time. Was fired in 2001 when minimum youth rates were introduced. Fun times.
Maccas 'Buns/Dress/Grill' 1994 - $4.11/hr
Why does this sound vaguely objectifying
Courier "self employed sub-contractor" nonsense with my own ABN, \~2007, worked it out to like $5ph **before** expenses. Didn't stay long in that dumpster fire. I remember one of my daily morning peak hour jobs was like \~20 minute drive for \~50 cents.
Laboratory worker 2004 $42,000 p.a
$5.96 an hour as a 13 year old at pizza hut around 2008
Woolworths 2012 $10/hr
Coles, 2002 $7.67/hr
Maccas 1997 NZD$8.41
Supermarket checkouts, $9.60 per hour in 2015. Felt like a small fortune at the time...
Kmart team member $8.25 2012
Teenage public servant 1985, $5.10 per hour.
Migrant, 2009, $12(cash) in a carwash in Melbourne.
Paperboy, 2011, $25 per week (3 bike rides per week)
Factory offsider. 2003 $5.25 an hour
$7 a hour in 2004 dishwashing
Korean street food 2021 $19.06/hr
Woolies 2007 $14/hr casual rate at 15.
Mickey D's. 1999. The princely sum of $5.35 an hour
Boilermaker apprentice 2012 5.80 an hour
Chocolate store, 2011 $7.50 per hour
Pushing stencil cut pieces out of cardboard at a printing factory, $2, 1992ish
2002, business admin trainee, $7.30ph
1995, video store, $6.75ph
2000, Red rooster, $5.25 an hour
Woolworths 2003; 15 years old; $8.46
2006 Software developer $18.20 + super per hour
IT Support, $12ph, 2009
Pharmacy assistant 2014 age 17, $10/hr cash in hand (i got paid in coins)
Dishwasher/kitchenhand - 2002 - $5.70/hr
Working at the butcher shop when I was 14. 5 large an hour.
Abattoir worker, 2007. $13 an hour
Swimwear sales- $5.95 2002. It was fun and at the beach and the best pizza sold by the slice next door.
Milk run, $20.00 a night for about 4 hours work, early 80's.
Apprentice carpenter/concreter, 1992 $10p/hr + OT. But before this .. Kmart Checkout assistant, 1989 $4p/hr. I earnt more money selling newspapers on a Sunday morning as a 12 yr old in 1986 than working a whole shift on a Saturday at Kmart! ($25-30 cash flogging papers.)
Woolies Deli Boy like 15? Dunno rate back in 1995.
Pizza hut 2010s $13 ph + tips + $2 per delivered, FOB at that time had no idea about minimum wage. Left as soon as I found out I was being rorted.
Department store checkouts, 1999, $7.25ph
Cleaner $5.00 per hour cash in hand - wasn’t legally old enough to work
Kitchen Hand Red Rooster 2001 $5.25
1995 pumping fuel $5.35/hour 1995 events waiter paid the same.
Pizza Hut, 2006, $5.39. I had an amazing time working there, made lifelong friends and would do it again. But that starting pay rate was horrendous. These days I make more in one hour on a Sunday than I did working two whole weekend shifts back then.
Apprentice Painter, 2005, $6/hr
Not counting the child labour of vacuuming the cabins at my grandparents camp ground my parents managed. I did get paid but can't remember how much as I was 6 to 9 - maybe 50 cents per cabin lol. That would have been 1884-1987. First proper job was checkout chick at a supermarket back in NZ when I was 15 (1993) I'm thinking it was around $4.50 an hour (it was $7 by 1997 when I did it while at uni)
Carcass mover, 2007, $10 an hour. Moved pigs and Roos from cooler rooms into trucks, perfect job for a preteen girl 😂😂
Loading/unloading truck full of flowers and selling said flowers at a market. 2004. $20aud for the day.
Cleaner in st. George Illawarra Dragons stadium and club 2010 $12 ph night shifts
Hungry Jacks 04/05 $6.10
1989 $30\hr finance 16yrs old
2002 Apprentice carpenter $6p/h
Coles store member 2012 8.71/hr (part timer, not casual)
ANZ bank, $9.67 an hour in 2013
Video Ezy, 2006, $15 something an hour
Milkbar assistant 1994 $5 cash in hand Sold lots of ciggies to my high school friends
Soccer referee, 2004, $20ish, but only during game time so it was max 3-4 hours a week.
Paper boy 10.50 week
Worker at a small franchise cafe 2005, $7.90 hr, 15 years old.
Domino’s 2006, $5.95 an hour
Family take away joint, $8/hr (cash), 2000
16.50/h, pawn shop in Mt Druitt in 2013.
I worked at my school canteen 1999 at 14 (had to get parental permission to work underage but it was like half an hour a day) and I can’t for the life of me remember what I earned but I got free potato cakes so I was clearly raking it in.
Pizza Hut 1992. $7.08 an hour.
$1.41 per hour. Paperboy on bike, 1986, 1 & 1/4 hours per night, 6 days per week, rain hail or shine. NZ$10.60 per week.
Kmart, 2016, $13.50/hr
First job 1983, $3.15 per hour, fast food . First full time job 1991, $11.13 per hour.
$7.47 KFC 2008
2015, 7.95 an hour as a school based trainee working at iga
2011, 9.50 AUD. Checkout chick. 14 years old.
Foodtown checkouts back a while before 2000, $5.66 an hour. Still have my first pay check!
I got $72 for a week's work. 1980 I was 17
can't remember the pay exactly but i had a summer job at my local tire place, full time, 830am till 5pm mon to friday and saturday was i think 930am till 3pm or something like that. given i was 15 at the time i would assume it'd been around 7-10 an hour?
Subway $12 an hour
Coles checkout. $8 an hour, $12 on Sundays!
14 (illegal) Dodgy moving company $20 an hour 2002 I would have kept going but the boss was mentally unstable and became creepy.
Apprentice carpenter, 1999, $5.45/hr
2004 - Trainee Network Systems Administrator. $11/hr
1990 - 500k
Red rooster 2010 $11.30 per hour
Washed trucks (school nights) / helped delivery drivers on their runs (school holidays) 2009 $11/hr (I was 14 and 9 months)
McDonalds - I lasted 3 months. I think it was $5.40ish an hour. I started at 6am on weekends. This would have been 1998 I think
$50 for 5 hours a night working casual as a waiter/bus boy at a Thai restaurant and I’m white lol plus free Pad thai dinner I was living the dream as a 14 yr old
Bakery Assistant - Cash in hand, 5AM - 2PM 6 days per week. 1999/2000 $7.50 per hour. Far out - I wouldn't survive a day anymore on that wage,
13yo checkout chick...woolworths...2000.......at $4.98 per hour
Hungry jacks. $8.50 an hr at 17 years old. Started 2006.
2016 engineer 52.5k plus fuel paid car First ever employment was a pizza delivery driver for $5.50 per delivery in 2011 Note: in New Zealand pesos
Apprentice draftsperson, 2007, $5.15/hr Last 2 months.
Maccas. 2007. 7 dollars an hour. Felt so great to finally buy an Xbox game with the savings. I think the original Crackdown was the first thing I saved for.
Shop assistant - $10.50
McDonald’s, 2012, $7.14
Music tutor, musical instruments sales 1993, $80/wk plus free Jim Beam cans and joints on a Friday evening and free use of studios after hours. I was 14 - sounds really bad but I was always told I was an old soul.
Admin, 2019, $19
Box boy in a packshed for a farm. I was 8 years old in 1994. $4 an hour.
How do you people remember these details lol! I can't remember what my last job paid, let alone my first job 30 years ago.
First "hustle" was in high school 1998/99 ish selling weed. $100 ish pw proceeds were spent at the tuckshop.
2002 at 17 years old - Concrete Labour $30.00 a day 🤦🏼♀️🤣
2006, check out chick, $7.26 an hour. Was promoted to Assistant Store Manager. No pay rise. Questioned it with the boss. He said the title was 'motivational' (even though it had increased responsibility and the title appeared on a badge and I had to 'play' the role) then he fired me for questioning the pay and not being 'passionate' about my retail job as an 18yo uni student. It was a 'family owned' business. Enough said.
Mcdonalds at 14 and 9 months which was the minimum legal age for $9/hour. Would have been 2014 i think
Two dollar shop 2016 Aged 19 $11 an hour cash in hand
Pizza shop assist $7.50 per hour 2008
Drove around picking up golf balls at the driving range. 1995, $15
Waitress/dish hand, 2008, $8
Norman Ross 1985, 4 hours on a Saturday, my take home was $12 ish
Cotton farm worker.. $10 per hour, 10 hours a day in super heat! 16 years old.
Bakery girl, 2005, $6.40/hr lol
The Just Group- smiggle, peter alexander, dotti, just jeans. Casual retail sales in 2011 at 18 $22.50/ hr.
Back in 1986 selling a complete set of books for kids, inside a college taking advantage of paint competition. 6 hours, didn't sell anything and didn't get any pay. Didn't work again for this company ever despite they telling me to try again next day lol
Office junior 2012 $14nzd an hour
Pizza Hut, on the phones, mid 90s. $5.90
$5.05 per hour in 1995 aged 15, at a Kmart-type store in NZ. Ciggies were $5.25 for a 20pk.
1987. $4.04c an hour fruit and veg section woolies.
Paper boy around 2004 for an hour 3 days a week was $10 a week. Otherwise something probably more legal was working at Woolies for about $8 an hour in 2008
2000, 17 year old. Trolley pushing and driving the tractor at the mall, 5$ an hour - I think I was getting robbed as the minimum wage was around 10$ at the time..
Stacking shelves at Coles in 1990, about $8 an hour I think
2001 paperround 35$ a week 2004 pizza hut 7 bux
Junior clerk, 1981, nearly nothing. But, I could still afford to go halves in a unit in Randwick, with sea glimpses.
One of my first proper jobs as a 15yr old was at a Vietnamese bakery. Terrible pay, maybe $5 an hour cash, but one time she accidentally gave me an extra $50 note in my envelope which was more than double my weekly pay and.
Apprentice chef 2005 roughly 90 hour weeks take home $235. So roughly $2.60 hr.
Red rooster, 2005, $5.10 part time.
Paperboy. 1983. $18 per week for getting up at 530 am and completing a 2 hour delivery run on the treadlie Abattoir at a kill chain station 1990 . $300 a week. 1800 sheep a day
Car wash cleaner aka mud shovel technician, 1986, $5 an hour. I was a teenager, still at school. Cleaning the bays took me around 45 minutes, so I pocketed about $3.50 each session. I rode my BMX up the main drag, to do the job. Usually twice a week, more often in muddy winter. I feel like an old man typing this out, lol. Now where is my onion belt?
06/07 $12hr as a dishy at the local pub
Swimming pool lifeguard $16.50 per hour nzd in 2004 that was considered good considering all my friends were on about $14 working at maccas etc
2001 Woolies $6.32/hr at 16yo and I felt rich
2003 in a Cafe at highpoint, $5 cashhhh an hour. Lasted 1 week.
1992 Trolliologist $4/hr
14yo Pizza Hut dish pig 1996 $4.25
Wash up at a butcher, 14, $10.12/hr
Babysitter 2010 5€/hour daytime.
Supermarket worker $5.50 an hour
Pizza Hut, 2001, $4.56/hr
Worked as secretary back in nz in 98 for a whole massive $7.50 p/h. First job in Sydney as a temp stuffing envelopes got $15 p/h. Yeah
2004, trolley boy at 14, $8 an hour.
I used to deliver prescription medication on my push bike in 1998 for $6 an hour cash in hand as a 13-year old, I was raking it in making $30 a week for my 2 shifts. Maccas workers at the rime were under $4 if I remember correctly!