How old were you when you first paid into SS?

Old Time Hunter · Post by **Old Time Hunter** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 9:46 am

After reading Chuck 100yd's impending retirement and the statement "afterworking 46years" got me to thinking.

How long has everyone paid into Social Security?

According to the last statement from SS, I was first recorded as paying in when I was 12 years old.

When did you start?

6pt-sika · Post by **6pt-sika** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 9:52 am

I first paid when I was 15.

jeepnik · Post by **jeepnik** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 9:53 am

The jobs I had in high school were all "off the books". I wonder if kids can even do some of the jobs I did. Probably too many laws against it today. So, I didn't start paying until I went into the service at eighteen.

Steelbanger · Post by **Steelbanger** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 10:16 am

I worked in a pharmacy for 50¢ an hour when I was 16, but come payday the only deduction I had was for Social Security. I worked until I was 63 so I paid in for 47 years. Good thing all those years weren't spent in the pharmacy because the pay sure sucked.

Les Staley · Post by **Les Staley** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 10:22 am

I must have been 18 when I took my first job at a lumber yard..$1.50 per hour... now that I'm officaly on the dole, I hope you younger guys keep on paying, so I can live a life like I'm accustom to. Les

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 10:43 am

I started paying National Insurance (SS) at 15 I'm 64 now and still paying.

COSteve · Post by **COSteve** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 10:47 am

I was 13 when I started and I stopped at 60 so I paid in 47 years.

Tycer · Post by **Tycer** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 10:48 am

Modoc ED · Post by **Modoc ED** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 10:56 am

My first real-world job with decuctions was at a ESSO gas station when I was 12-years orld in 1955. I fully retired in 1996 so I paid SS for 41-years.

MediCare is the real question. It wasn't around during my first working years and then when it was voted in, the Military was exempt. I didn't start paying into MediCare until I retired from the Navy in 1989 and started working a civilian (ship yard) job two weeks later. So using the year 1996 for full retirement, I only paid into MediCare for 7-years.

I am now 69-years old and have been drawing SS since age 62 (7-years) and MediCare since age 65 (4-years).

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 10:57 am

17, I think.

Post by **Hobie** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 12:18 pm

jeepnik wrote:The jobs I had in high school were all "off the books". I wonder if kids can even do some of the jobs I did. Probably too many laws against it today. So, I didn't start paying until I went into the service at eighteen.

Yep

Booger Bill · Post by **Booger Bill** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 12:36 pm

I would guess about 13. I worked in the fields in wisconsin on truck farms. Actualy picked strawberries etc at I think 11 or 12.

FWiedner · Post by **FWiedner** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 12:39 pm

El Chivo · Post by **El Chivo** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 1:12 pm

16, got a job at Kentucky Fried Chicken.

SteveR · Post by **SteveR** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 1:26 pm

15, then though high school with off the book jobs as well as paying in.

Steve

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 1:35 pm

junkbug · Post by **junkbug** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 2:01 pm

16 When I started working at Roy Rodgers in Old Town, Alexandria, Va.

ollogger · Post by **ollogger** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 2:18 pm

First job that took out was trimming X mas trees in 1970 for a buck a hour in Wisconsin
never forget his name George Frelk he had millions of trees

ollogger

Charles · Post by **Charles** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 3:24 pm

I had just turned 18 in 1960 and got a job for the United States Department of Agriculture Pink Bollworm Research Center. First place I ever got a paycheck. Before that all of my work as cash in hand. I liked that better but Uncle Sam didn't think much of the practice.

COSteve · Post by **COSteve** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 6:03 pm

Back when I started working at the local grocery store at 13 for 50 cents per hour, you couldn't work but a few hours a day and not after dark and only with parental permission. They withheld federal, state, and SS from my pay.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 7:44 pm

I started in '68 at 14 yoa. Here's a pic of my granddaddy's card. He started in 1936. Name and number were covered to protect the dead.

-------Sixgun

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 8:15 pm

16 years old, 32 years ago!

mack · Post by **mack** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 8:18 pm

1964, I was 12 yrs old and I worked every farm job I could find. About the only legitimate jobs available for a kid in those days. Just got my statement and I've been paying in for 48 years, most of them at double rate because I had my own business. Not to mention what I paid in on behalf of my employees over the years. I just hope that there will be something left for me in four to five years!

Dave B · Post by **Dave B** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 5:35 am

I started at 14 and I'll end up paying for about 53 years. Wow, time sure flies.

Dave B

damienph · Post by **damienph** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 8:22 am

17yo (1971), JC Penney Home & Auto Store, long closed...

bdhold · Post by **bdhold** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 8:31 am

16, worked as a tire mechanic at Firestone.
Bought a shotgun with my first paycheck (FIE SxS), and a fly rod was second.

Tumbleweeds II · Post by **Tumbleweeds II** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 12:19 pm

15. The ad said 16 but I was already wearing size 11 shoes so nobody questioned me about it. Well, actually the manager did after about 2 weeks, he thought I must have been at least 18. I'm 65 now, I'll start drawing a check this fall at 66 but I haven't retired yet.

Ji in Hawaii · Post by **Ji in Hawaii** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 1:11 pm

1977 when I was 17 delivering doughnuts starting at 4 a.m. before my class at high school my junior year. Before that I was self-employed catching tropical fish and selling them to pet shops since I was 9 years old but didn't pay taxes.

Idahoser · Post by **Idahoser** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 1:18 pm

'paid into' would imply something you own. SS has always been just another tax.

stew71 · Post by **stew71** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 2:25 pm

15, I think. Worked as a grocery bagger that summer. IIRC, the local union took more in dues than I paid to Uncle Sugar.

Birdman · Post by **Birdman** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 3:57 pm

I was 12 when I first paid in. On the same S.S. info sheet they no longer send out through the mail it totals a persons wages for each year. Total up your lifetime wages. It is amazing how long it takes to show a decent figure on a working mans wage.

Streetstar · Post by **Streetstar** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 4:21 pm

17, when i joined the Army-- everything before that was hay-haulin and fence fixin' type jobs

Pete44ru · Post by **Pete44ru** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 5:16 pm

1954 to 2004..............

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jshinal · Post by **jshinal** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 7:47 pm

At 15 - a job as a summer camp counselor, in the Catskills. The owner was a cheap flinty sonofagun who paid us beans, but the perks were pretty good, including hanging out at the pool as lifeguards and chatting up the girl counselors.

I got my SS card specifically for that job.

Jayhawker · Post by **Jayhawker** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 8:27 pm

I first started paying in at age 16 with my first town job - a grill cook at a Tastee Freez. Farm jobs before that were paid in cash when the job was finished. I made a lot more from baling hay in one summer than I did in two full years as a cook but the latter was in an air conditioned building.

Shasta · Post by **Shasta** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 11:56 pm

My first job where SS was paid was at age 17 in 1968, working as a pump jockey at a Shell gas station. If I remember correctly gas was 26 cents a gallon and we gave out S & H Green Stamps to help draw customers!

SHASTA

Post by **Hobie** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 6:18 am

Sixgun wrote:I started in '68 at 14 yoa. Here's a pic of my granddaddy's card. He started in 1936. Name and number were covered to protect the dead. -------Sixgun

Jack, anybody who knows anything about you can have that number in less than 15 minutes... Just sayin'...

AJMD429 · Post by **AJMD429** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 10:00 am

Idahoser wrote:'paid into' would imply something you own. SS has always been just another tax.

Yep. One of too many, and designed so we think we're "getting something" back that remotely compensates for what was put in, and the harm done to the economy and our economic stability...

mack wrote:1964, I was 12 yrs old and I worked every farm job I could find. About the only legitimate jobs available for a kid in those days. Just got my statement and I've been paying in for 48 years, most of them at double rate because I had my own business. Not to mention what I paid in on behalf of my employees over the years. I just hope that there will be something left for me in four to five years!

There won't be. The government has deflated the value of 'money' so much that you'll be getting back little of value vs. what was taken from you over the years.

Sixgun wrote:I started in '68 at 14 yoa. Here's a pic of my granddaddy's card. He started in 1936. Name and number were covered to protect the dead. -------Sixgun

Not to insult his memory, but as crooked as our political system has become, I'll bet "he" is listed as alive and well, and voting Democrat, in ten or twelve political districts across the nation where the Dems need the votes...

Idahoser · Post by **Idahoser** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 11:02 am

AJMD429 wrote:
mack wrote:... I just hope that there will be something left for me in four to five years!
There won't be. The government has deflated the value of 'money' so much that you'll be getting back little of value vs. what was taken from you over the years.

there is nothing 'left' now, there has never been anything there. They are taxing me now to pay current recipients, THERE IS NO ACCOUNT with your name on it. It is and has always been a scam.

Old Time Hunter · Post by **Old Time Hunter** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 5:27 pm

Booger Bill wrote: I worked in the fields in wisconsin on truck farms. Actualy picked strawberries etc at I think 11 or 12.

The reason I got a real job at 12. My Grandparents farmed me out to pick cherries in Door County when I was 10 and 11. $.25 a bucket, they let me keep the money on every fourth one. Usually made $2 a day, but after a couple of days my fingers would become permanently stained, had to wear the color off. Made $30 that first year, thought I was a millionaire. Bought a $20 US Savings bond for $11...became a big investor.

Made $65 the second year, bought a $30 bike so I could peddle to a real job.

Bluehawk · Post by **Bluehawk** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 1:43 pm

Started paying when I was 14 still paying now at 63 .

JReed · Post by **JReed** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 5:13 pm

15 worked at a magic and costume shop right before holloween. Fun gig

rossim92 · Post by **rossim92** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 5:47 pm

since i was 16, 49 yoa now

roundup · Post by **roundup** » Wed Sep 12, 2012 12:48 am

Well let's see...16. I'm 76 and stil working as a part-time Deputy Sheriff...so I've been at it for....60 (gulp) years!