Politics & Government

How Much Was YOUR Minimum Wage?

Do you remember working for minimum wage in your teens? How much was it, and where did you work? Share your recollections here.

If you could somehow travel back in time to the 1930s when the first minimum wage was established in the U.S. — you'd be making 25 cents an hour.

Take a trip down memory lane to your first job flipping burgers or washing cars in the '60s, and you might have been earning $1.60 an hour — the federal minumum wage in 1968. If you worked in California, you would have been getting 5 cents more.

Today, the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, and Rep. George Miller wants it to be raised to $10.10. 

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California's bottom line is $8 an hour, which has stayed steady since January 2008. The state with the lowest minimum wage is Wyoming at $5.15 an hour. Washington State, meanwhile, pays its employees the highest rate in the country — $9.19 an hour.

Do you remember working for minimum wage? What was it? Where did you work? Share your experience below.

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