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Originally Posted by DubaiSis
And 30K? I didn't get paid $30K until just several years ago. My first job out of college, with a degree, paid $5.50 an hour. And I made rent, a car payment and a student loan payment. And I'll spare you the rest of the sob story, but I'm not a starving artist; I'd say I had a pretty typical situation...
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Wow. Well, I don't know how typical that is. For instance, minimum wage in my state is $9.09, and many many retail employers even pay more than that (when I worked at Starbucks in college 15 years ago they paid more than $10/hour, Nordstrom retail was $13 I think).