When I worked part-time as a sales clerk after school in NY State in 1964, the minimum wage was $1.25 an hour. After I graduated high school in 1965, I took a full-time, 40 hour week County Civil Service job as a Clerk. We got paid twice a month. After taxes, I had about $90 left for the two weeks of pay. And I had to pay my parents $100 room and board a month.
$1.25 in 64 was around $12.59 today.