How Much Was YOUR Minimum Wage?

If you were working your first job flipping burgers or washing cars in the '60s, you might have been earning $1.60 an hour—the federal minumum wage in 1968. If you worked for minimum wage in 1980, you would have been getting $1.50 more.

If you time-traveled back to the 1930s when the first minimum wage was established in America, you'd be earning a quarter an hour.

Today, the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, and two U.S. Congressmen have proposed raising it to $10.10. Washington state, meanwhile, recently raised its minimum wage to $9.19 an hour—the highest rate in the country.

That made us recollect our own first job and how much we made. So we posed the question to our friends on the Redmond Patch Facebook page, and got some fun answers:

• "Dairy Queen 2003... $7.01 and no free ice cream. Very disappointing."
• "Mom and Pop store.. $3.75 (1982ish)"
• "My first job was babysitting for $1/hour. My next job was at a hardware store and I have no idea what i made, but it was huge money for a 16 year old."
• "Waitress 1972. $1.60/hr"
• "Behind a salad bar - I think it was $4.25 back then (in CA)"

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Do you remember working for minimum wage? What was it and what did you do? Tell us in the comments section.