How about a thread on what you made Then vs Now?

[bluestone]

I got $10 per night in 1967...
$100 per night now.....
Playing the same music!!!!

[PRR]

How much was beer, butts, gas, hamburger in 1967?

[bluestone]

Beer was 10 cents for a 7 oz draft, gas was 24.9 cents per gal, Butts were 30 cents a pack but when I went in the Army I got them for $1.98/carton (Free in our C-rats), a Burger was 25 cents.......I think we were further ahead back then!!!!!

[PRR]

Prices on essentials have gone up 20X-30X, and you are charging 10X?

I know what you mean. I remember $2.15/hour, and recently struggled to negotiate up from $25/hour.

[Cups]

I've been gigging for about 15 years (Not very long I know) but the pay hasn't changed much over that span.

[stingray_65]

I made $3.10/hr when I entered the work force.

When I was at a Bob Evan waiting for a table they had these "Remember When" pamphlets and one page displayed cost of milk, eggs, car, house etc.

I found I had as much buying power then as I did a year ago making $26.40/hr

of course sharing an apt with 3 buddies after beer every night and chasing women I still paid my rent, share of utilities and had enough to buy a 10 yr old '72 vette that I dropped a 454 into (and side pipes)(and a set of Wide Track Ovals that I burnt off every month)

Not bad for a senior in high school! lousy when I was supporting a family of 4 in Michigan.

[LooseChange]

All I'm gonna say is 33.9 cents per gallon. (I'm not that old)

[simonallaway]

Even recently I recall buying gas at 99c a gallon (in NW Indiana)...that would've been somewhere around 2000/2001.

[Ritchie200]

Back in the 70's we played the high school dances (do they even use bands anymore, or is it all DJ?).  After paying everyone we all made about $10.  There were a few schools that asked us NOT to come back because we were too loud.  At one Catholic girls school dance we did, they caught my drummer with a beer - why is it ALWAYS the drummer!!!  We had played an hour, they kicked us out, and we did not get paid.  But we were LEGENDS!  Heck, in a year we maybe changed one member, had different name, and we ended up going back anyway.  My daughters play these schools in sports now and when we visit I bring up stories of my rowdy rock and roll rebel lifestyle as a teen.  They just roll their eyes and give me an air leak.  I feel so old....

Jim

[rafe]

back in 66 we'd get 300-350 for a school dance ..... now you are lucky to get that at a regular gig around here........but then again there isn't here, you can still make decent money there, and here you can't 

[67polara]

Let's see first job I got a pay check at and not self employed was working Graveyard at a Fast Gas Gas station in marina California.  I was paid 80 cents an hour and all the crap I could knock out of the Tom's machine. LOL  Gas was 23.9 cigs 25cents and oil was 17 cents.  Ah those were the days soaping up the islands and doing burn outs in the degreaser LOL.  Now I make 100.00 and still try to figure out how I'm gonna make the house payment.  Now a Hundred dollars an hour sounds like a lot but I am self employed so usually it is only a couple hours a day I very seldom get an 8 hour job, but when I do we eat high on the Hog.

Tony