Monday, September 2, 2019

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These are hard to read but they indicated that in 1948 I earned $380.60 at Kress five and dime store and paid $14.65 in income taxes.
The next year $468.92 and the tax was$15.45.

Ah, the good old days. We didn't make much but nothing cost very much.
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6 comments:

  1. Far Side of FiftySeptember 2, 2019 at 6:59 PM

    I think you could buy a car for about 800 dollars and gas must have been about 12 cents a gallon or so. :)

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    1. marluSeptember 3, 2019 at 9:56 AM

      Gas was eighteen cents a gallon when I was driving the '34 Plymouth my dad bought during the war after selling almost brand new Hudson to a friend in Texas!

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  2. BetsySeptember 2, 2019 at 9:46 PM

    Wow! My Mom managed a Woolworths in Nebraska in 1944 and I remember seeing one of her pay stubs and thinking how little it was.
    Blessings,
    Betsy

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  3. JanSeptember 3, 2019 at 4:20 AM

    Wow! Times have changed. What was the minimum wage back then? My first job, as an exercise instructor, was in 1969 when minimum wage was $1.60.

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  4. marluSeptember 3, 2019 at 9:55 AM

    We were paid fifty cents an hour at S.H. Kress. I only worked summers and on Saturdays during school.

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  5. Leilani Schuck WeatheringtonSeptember 3, 2019 at 4:37 PM

    I remember earning about $2.50 an hour working on the college campus in 1968. Doesn't seem like much now but then gas was 25-cents.

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