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Vivian Ann Royal does nothing average, including how long she works for one company.
The average American employee works no more than five years for one company and changes employers about 12 times in their lifetime, according to the 2019 Bureau of Labor Statistics. Royal stomped on that average working at Nippon Electric Glass, formerly Pittsburgh Plate Glass, for 48 1/2 years before retiring March 1.
At the urging of her sister, Mary Lee Reid, the Lexington native applied and was hired to work at the fiberglass manufacturer in August 1972. She was only 17 when she began, not turning 18 until September.
Royal had dreamed of going to college and becoming a math teacher. Her reality was she had two young daughters, Toni and Tina Royal, to raise she said, and she needed a new car. The pay at other jobs in the area couldn t compete with the then $2.97 per hour PPG would pay her, and she quickly got a raise to $3.02 per hour. Royal s salary was approximately $25 per hour when