On 1/6/12 10:01 AM, JustWait wrote:
On 1/6/2012 9:22 AM, Oscar wrote:
On 1/6/2012 12:02 AM, Califbill wrote:
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On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:06:48 -0500, X ` Man
wrote:
On 1/5/12 12:49 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:58:33 -0500, X ` Man
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I don't know what the average paycheck was back then.
In the 50s my father made about $5,000-6000 a year as a GS11 in the
government
That GS11 is probably about 12x that now and gas is 17x
In 1963, at a summer job through the Teamsters, I was earning about
$7.00 an hour loading skids of razor blades and shaving cream onto
semi-truck trailers. It was a semi-skilled job (I ran a forklift), so
probably paid below the "average" paycheck in those days. It was higher
than many of the workers at the factory, but lower than the guys who
set
up and maintained the machinery. Shick used to sell us packages of
blades for a nickel each...that sure deterred theft. I'd load up before
the semester started and then resell the blades on campus for half the
price at the local markets. :) I also sold and delivered doughnuts,
picked up drycleaning and delivered pizzas, though not all at the same
time. College was cheap back then and it was not difficult to pay most
of your own expenses.
I was a Teamster in 1963, making a third of that. You must had a
heluva contract. I was only making $2.50 an hour at IBM in 1966
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Seems like Harry raked in the money. 1964 in school apprentice for NCR
was $95 a week. When I graduated 36 weeks school I made $120 a week.
Very good pay. My girlfriend at the time was an RN and and assistant
head nurse for the orthopedic floor and made $376 a month. Me thinks an
apprentice forklift driver was making a lot less than $210 / week. My
stepfather was a college Prof. and made about $16k a year.
If you want to be the best at everything you need to start early in life.
There is no way he was making 7 an hour running a forklift in 1963...
sorry... My dad was also a Teamster in 63, in a warehouse, running a
forklift, had been with the union nearly 20 years, had seniority, and
probably made about 1.50-2.00 per hour at the most.
It wasn't a warehouse, it was a factory. I happened to work out of the
shipping and receiving department, loading finished product and
unloading coils of steel and other industrial materials.
We were paid nearly three times the minimum wage at that time, plus
bennies. The $7 an hour package included the bennies, such as health
care and our retirement fund, and a couple of other items. It's been a
long time, but I recall the bennies were worth close to $3.00 an hour.
It's not an unusual model: many construction unions have similar
contracts...a $40 an hour compensation, of which $12 to $15 or more goes
to bennies.
There was another job I could have taken through another union during
that time period, another factory that made electrical motors. The
starting pay was a little higher. I don't remember why I took the job I
did instead of the other one.
Whatever your dad's experience, it was just anecdotal, just like mine
was just anecdotal.