General Discussion

cost $20,000. They each made--good union jobs--a bit less than $2k each in the '50s. With promotions, inflation, pay hikes above the cost of living (again, union jobs) and with overtime (at time and a half, double time, and from time to time triple time), by the time the steel mill went out of business their paychecks were over $80k in the mid-80s. A bit richer than their pay in the '50s, compared to the rest of the community, but their '50s pay wasn't just pegged at median, either.

Housing's exceeded the 'inflation' index for the last 20 years by a fairly wide margin. Esp. in some areas.