I was in a rare situation, I eventually came to manage two of the Zoo restaurants and had quite a few staff reporting to me which is where the bump in rate came

I was in a rare situation, I eventually came to manage two of the Zoo restaurants and had quite a few staff reporting to me which is where the bump in rate came from. On slow days (less staff) I made about 13 dollars an hour which was still really good at the time. The moral of my story is that I made decent money as a hard working teenager, I took my job very seriously, and I was rewarded in such a way that would have never existed without a union.