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Originally Posted by Dwight Gruber
Federal minimum wage of $7.25/hr = $290/wk. Before taxes.
Just for perspective.
--Dwight
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That's below the poverty level.
10 tear old children making Nike sneakers in Bangladesh make more than that...
Just for S&G, I downloaded the Military Pay Scale for 1971 (my last year of active duty, L/Cpl in USMC)...
http://www.dfas.mil/militarymembers/...ay-charts.html
$333.60/mo, $166.80/payday for me (L/Cpl under 2)...
I seem to recall $197/payday (every two weeks) but I was overseas at the time...Maybe overseas pay???
Anyway, that works out to $2.46/hr for a 40 hr week...A draft beer at the Enlisted Club was $.25...
We were always broke...