I got as little as a $75 a week when I started.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that.
I was making $150 a week in workshop. It was a rough year. I had trouble paying the rent. But I had evenings free to spend with my wife, Olive, and our baby daughter. In terms of family-building, it was one of the most blessed years of my life.
If you think about $7.25 an hour, that's $290 a week. It's inhumane to have that kind of wage.
My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.
Making $1,260 a week at 17 years old? That was a million dollars a week to me!
I remember I made $22 a week doing dinner theater in Norfolk, Virginia. Back then, in the '70s, that was pretty good for a teenager, for a part-time job.
The fact is, I made $400 a week and only for 26 weeks a year. I never had any money.
Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.
I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.
The station put us on staff at $35 a week... and I mean every week.