Price of a beer vs. time worked.

[Rodney Mills]

Following is an article from the October 22, 2012 edition of Time magazine:

"5 minutes an American has to work to afford a beer, according to a new study of median wages and average beer prices across 150 countries. The average for most nations is 20 minutes."

Cheers, Rodney

[Jim Brady]

Me and my mates always worked it out that you would get four pints for you hourly rate.Four shillings per hour beer one shilling a pint.Four pound per hour one pound per pint.Present day maybe £12 per hour £3 per pint.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[Les Woodard]

Has been a standard currency here in Oz for years. Called mates rates. If you need a bit of work done and one of your mates comes round to sort it out. The payment is decided something like this? Yes mate can do that for two slabs of beer (slab being a case of beer). So depending on the size of the job depends on how many slabs are required in payment. For very small jobs it is then decided on shouts at the pub. For larger jobs it then becomes a BBQ with all the families attending.

[Lou Barron]

What oh i am going back to brewing my own beer and keeping it under lock and key

[happy daze john in oz]

For me the price of a slab, I only buy when there is a special of 2 for $60 which is 60 cans it works out at about 1.538 days state pension per purchase.

[Louis the Amigo]

Hi Shipmates, my old mate Laurie 87yrs only drinks rum, large ones £12 an hour wont buy his beer chasers on a slow night?

[Neville Roberts]

my pension works out at about $12 an hour so it takes 1.1/4 hours to buy a case 24 cans that lasts me 6 days if i,m slow that week .boy I,m gettin thirsty just writing about it .

[Captain Kong]

In 1956, in New York, I got $5 for one pint of blood. That took one hour. That would buy 50 glasses of beer in the Market Diner, 10 cents a glass then. So 50 glasses of beer for one hour donating.
$2 to the pound then, wages £1 a day-[£30 a month[, so $2 a day for 8 hours work, = to 20 glasses of beer in the Diner.
that is = to two and a half glasses of beer in the Diner for one hour of work.
50 glasses of beer for one hour of donating
Easier donating blood.
Cheers
Brian.

[j.sabourn]

Hope you gave the blood before drinking the beer Brian. Otherwise the recipient would have come to suffering a hangover. Cheers John Sabourn.

[Captain Kong]

Hi John,
One of our Firemen on the FRANCONIA donated blood several times in different blood banks and then collapsed in the street, they dragged him back inside and gave him a few pints of blood, it cost him 120 dollars, he had recieved about 20 dollars..
Another mate went with me and after one inch of blood in the jar fainted. They just gave him One Dollar for his trouble.
They were very handy when you were broke in New York.
Cheers
Brian.