Rate of payment

A rate of payment was the amount of wages one was paid to work, usually expressed in $ and/or ¢ per hour.
In 1930, Edith Keeler offered James T. Kirk and Spock a job "doing dishes, sweeping, general cleaning." When the Vulcan inquired as to the rate of payment, as he needed to purchase radio tubes for his "hobby", Keeler promised them "fifteen cents an hour for ten hours a day". ($1.50 a day). Later, she arranged a "five hours work at twenty two cents an hour" for them. ($1.10) ()
Category:Fees and payments