Was it realistic for Eddie to be making 80 dollars a week working full time as a gas jockey?

It seems that if that was true then many high school students would have been dropping out to work as unskilled gasoline attendants.

It seems like Goober from TAGS worked equally hard if not harder at a service station and he wasn't really making ends meet.

Knowing Eddie, he probably blackmailed his employer into more money. :lol:

That would only be $2/hr working 40 hrs. What was minimum wage then?

A few years later--mid to late 1960s--I made $2 an hour as a camp counselor and mowing lawns. So it sounds about right.

One of the people I mowed for had a farm, with a fenced in pool area. They had a small tractor mower, and it was difficult maneuvering it around the pool. When he said, Mow the pool, I hated that! Or I hated on hot days, when he said, Mow the lane. Long lane, both sides!

It said 1.00 an hour for US - 1960- min wage. Of course, Eddie kept spilling gasoline (over flowing) customer's tanks and the boss was telling him off pretty good (putting 19 gallons into a tank that holds 18 gallons). He also overfilled Mr. Farmer- his principal's tank too.

I'm thinking he made 40 dollars a week (and less to cover the spilled gas).

I think he told all the guys he was making a cool $80 a week. Of course he was never known to exaggerate-ha ha. Mr. Thompson was probably paying him $80 per two weeks.

The approx. $1 min. wage would account for all the wows from the guys when Eddie made the cool $80 a week remark.

Considering the mistakes he was making, he probably wouldn't have made it to the first check; but, Mr. Farmer's speech convinced him to go back to school.

It's the equivalent to 800 now, or $20 per hour. Wages were relatively higher back then, so it's not unreasonable.

When my mother married in 1959 she was earning 70 cents an hour as a cashier.

When my mother married in 1959 she was earning 70 cents an hour as a cashier.

Would a gas station attendant have been making the same amount as a Cashier or more?