I was a teacher in 1980,

[Ms. Toad]

And with a bachelor's degree and a professional certification i only made $4.81 $10,005/year. In skeptical that grocery store clerk made nearly 3 times that in the same era.

I can't find a 1980 comparison, but a union survey from 1975 puts the range of wages for full time store clerks between $3375-6673 ($2.62-$3.21)