They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.
My first job at Gleason's Bar in Cleveland was $800 a week, when I was making $92 a week with overtime at the automobile plant.
My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.
In 1962, I had an entry-level reporter's job at an Omaha television station. I had bargained to get a salary of $100 dollars a week because I didn't feel I could tell Meredith's doctor father I was making less.
I worked at the Illinois unemployment office. I got $55 a week and the unemployed got $45. And they only had to come in once a week.
Although this was one of his comic routines, he claimed it was true.
When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary, which I think was like a hundred dollars a week, a piece, five hundred dollars for all five of us.
I guess this is the week that I earn my salary.
Remark made during the Cuban missile crisis.
I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.
I did a paper round as a kid, but the early mornings were too much. My dad took it over, so I was getting paid 15 quid a week, but he was doing it!
Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.
I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
I decided at school that the only sensible way to make a living by arranging words in a pleasing order was by working on newspapers, because you got paid at the end of the week or the end of the month.