For your very first job how much did you earn per hour? How did you get to work?

My first "real" job was with Montgomery Ward's in Kankakee.  I was hired as stock clerk.  I checked in the merchandise and put price tags on each article. I was, also, in charge of layaways.  Marking and shelving them so they could be retrieved quickly.  It was a most uncomfortable place to work without airconditioning.  So, it was sweltering hot in the summer and freezing in the winter.  I was paid one dollar an hour.  That sounds ridiculous but you could buy a dress for three dollars.  Gas was thirty cents a gallon.  Bread was twenty-five cents a loaf. 
I worked that job for two years and then moved to inventory control, an office job with a desk and a calculator. Strangely, I was paid the same for being in charge of the inventory as for putting price tags on socks.  I would also work the floor during rush periods.  The advantages of this job were an employee discount and knowing when merchandise was going to be marked down and when the sales were planned.  Before I married, I bought our appliances and furniture on employee night when we had an extra percentage off.
I was at work there when we heard that President Kennedy had been assassinated.   I started crying.  Another employee came up to me and asked what was wrong.  I told him and he said that maybe we would get a better one now.  I still remember him saying that. 
I resigned in May of 1966 just days before our first child was born and returned to work in October of 1966 then as a clerk in the credit department.  I enjoyed the bookkeeping part and the air conditioning but did not like the collections on bad debt because several of them were people that I had known as fellow students in school.  My services in that position ended in September of 1967 when my stomach wouldn't let me get close enough to the desk to operate the calculator.  Several weeks later, the twins were born.  That ended my working outside the home for many years.
When I first started working at Wards, I rode into town with our neighbor who worked in Kankakee and was happy for the extra money and the company.  We worked the same hours and it worked out well for both of us.  After I was married, I drove myself to work.
That was my first job.