It's all kind of relative... Current minimum wage in NC is $7.25 an hour, that's a gross of $15,080 a year for a 40 hour work week. Minimum wage in 1969 was $1.60 which would be a gross of $3,340 a year.You know your old when the minimum hourly wage equals your first daily wage for 8 hours.
My property tax on my East Oakland home is double what I paid for my first East Oakland home…I pay more in taxes now than I made at my first job out of college in 1980.
California don't countMy property tax on my East Oakland home is double what I paid for my first East Oakland home…
The annual car registration is 1/3 what my old Ford cost new.
It’s amazing what was hundreds is now thousands.
Just priced a booster pump for a friend and about doubled in 7 years.
Hieronymus BoschWho made the quote “Everybody counts or nobody counts” famous? First book was published in 1992.
I bought my first new car Fall of 1977. It was a 1978 Smokey and the Bandit Trans Am.It's all kind of relative... Current minimum wage in NC is $7.25 an hour, that's a gross of $15,080 a year for a 40 hour work week. Minimum wage in 1969 was $1.60 which would be a gross of $3,340 a year.
I think the biggest difference is back then you could find a lot more people willing to work for minimum wage and not sure what kind of new car you could buy for today under $15,000 LOL (although I do wonder how much shipping and handling were).
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If I could only go back in time, buy one and bring it home with me new today!
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Took out 20K in cash at my bank end of last year, no problem, same day and If I had to give them a reason, I'd close the account.$8k is a lot less money than it used to be. Try to withdraw it from the bank today without a reason and a 3 day heads up.