1950

Often looked to as a model era, the 1950s may have been nearly as picture-perfect asseemed to suggest―minimum wage workers could pay rent for a month for less than a week and a half of full-time work―or catch Disney’sfor just over a half-hour of labor.$0.75/hour$0.27 or 22m$0.48 or 38m$42 or 56hrs(All figures represent the average cost of a movie ticket, a gallon of gas, and the median rent.)