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Basically in the 70s and before you could work 8 weeks during the summer and have enough to cover the basics for the school year, room/board /tuition /books.
by patrickg_zill 8y ago
Basically in the 70s and before you could work 8 weeks during the summer and have enough to cover the basics for the school year, room/board /tuition /books.
- ConceptJunkie 8y agoI was in school at Virginia Tech from '82 to '87. My summer jobs were able to pay for about 1/3 of the total cost of college. Nowadays, I imagine it would be more like 1/10 or less.
- fatnoah 8y agoI was in school from 1993-1997. My summer job (full-time @ $5/hour) paid for about 13% of the total costs and about 38% of the after-scholarships cost.
- patrickg_zill 8y agofound a receipt from Univ. of Houston on Twitter: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkiDeV8UcAADv1j.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkiDeV8UcAADv1j.jpg Cost for the courses and parking etc. for 1 semester was $152.50 . I guess the student had to buy some books also - so say, even $100 in books would take it to $252.50 ? And 1975 minimum wage was $2.10/hour. So ~ 120 hours of labor (1 month) was enough to cover tuition and books.