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For an interesting comparison, look at your first job. Take the hourly pay and divide it by the cost of gasoline at the pump at that time: I made $1 an hour working at a gas station and gas sold for 16.9 cents per gallon then (1966). That means my hourly pay could buy 5.9 gallons gas... For the equivalent today, the same 5.9 gallons would cost me 3.80 (cost of gas) times 5.9 = $22.42 which could be compared to my original $1 per hour

In 1969, I made $4.96 an hour and gas cost about 35 cents. Using the same formula, I could buy 14.2 gallons with one hour's pay. Equating to today at $3.80 per gallon, I would have to make $53.85 per hour to buy the same amount.

mike in tucson