Hell! You were in Hog Heaven!!!! My maternal grandfather used to talk about 'IF' you could get paid $1.00 per day with room and board you were making damn good wages!
Years ago a fellow employee brought in a xeroxed copy of a picture and the caption from a magazine of some gals father along with two other employees standing in front of a Safeway in 1934. There were all these hand written signs in the windows with the prices of things. The only price I remember was that bacon was $0.12 per pound.
The gal had written "Look at those prices, think about how much they could buy".
Those weren't CHEAP PRICES! Those poor bastards were still coming out of the Great Deppression and those were EXPENSIVE PRICES!! Those guys 'Might' have been making a bit more than my Grandfather did doing farm work, but not much.