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“My first paycheck I got was for my first week that I worked in Austria as a professional ballerina.”

We asked business leaders at the Fortune MPW Summit if they remembered their first jobs and how much they earned.

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00:00Working with my father at Cinnabon and I'd make $60 a day and I'd put it in the
00:04bank and save it for a car and a house. The newspaper route with my sister was
00:08probably under $4 an hour. A cashier at Hardee's. Sometimes my pay would get
00:12ducked because I would eat too many fries. My first paycheck I got was for my
00:16first week that I worked in Austria as a professional ballerina. I scooped ice
00:21cream. $3.25 an hour. Selling jeans at the Express. $8.50 an hour. Extra commission
00:27for the number of jeans you sold. Swim instructor. $20 an hour. Being in the NBC
00:32Universal Page program. If you've seen 30 Rock, yes, like Kenneth the Page. Yes, we
00:37wear the suits and we give the studio tours. That was a little bit above minimum
00:41wage. Abercrombie and Fitch in the local mall. I think I got minimum wage. Weekly
00:46babysitting job. Maybe six bucks an hour. I was 12 and my parents had to sign a
00:53release for me to work at Calamigos Ranch in Malibu and I worked the ice cream
01:00machine. I couldn't remember but enough to buy candy.

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