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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you think about $7.25 an hour, that's $290 a week. It's inhumane to have that kind of wage.
Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?
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.
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 was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!
We only had enough money really to cut 10 things and be in there for a month because it's expensive, you know. And, singer/songwriters, today are lucky if they can get a deal, you know. So, we actually worked so fast that we really cut 20 things.
The most I ever spent on technology is building a studio - I built one at home in Los Angeles. I can't tell you how much exactly, but the whole process is very expensive.
The fact is, I made $400 a week and only for 26 weeks a year. I never had any money.
The station put us on staff at $35 a week... and I mean every week.
I got as little as a $75 a week when I started.