Your first pay packet

[Mw Roofline]

Going through some old papers, my first wage slip was when I was 18 (I'm 36 now).

9 till 5, 5 days a week, £59 take home. I worked at a car sales place doing admin.

Go back a further 3 years and I did a Sunday paper round for three hours and I got paid £1.50. Loved that paper round

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

I worked for my dad, I normally got clip around the ear!

 

[joe-90]

I worked at a car sales place 'doing' admin.

We can't even get him to reply to emails.

 

[slick50]

I worked at a wool brokers in Victoria, Australia. First pay was $16.75

 

[conny]

Trainee piano restorer, £4-50 for 42 hours.
Only stuck it a fortnight before getting my electrical apprenticeship.
First week 40 hours plus 4 hours O/T on Saturday and picked up the princely sum of £12.54.

I was rich!!!!

 

[gregers]

yts £27.30 p/week working for a carpenter/general builder.but at the same time was doing various morning paper rounds and the marking up and was earning on average about 40 quid a week.

 

[sooey]

£3.17/6p top line, took home £3.6/10p.
Apprentice wages in the very early seventies.

 

[kevplumb]

£32.50 week of 6 till 2 steelworks 36 years ago

 

[conny]

£3.17/6p top line, took home £3.6/10p.
Apprentice wages in the very early seventies.

Must have been '70-71' as I was picking up £12 odd in late '72'.

 

[joinerjohn]

£10 for 42 hrs. My mum took £4 off me for board

But on the bright side, beer was only about 20p for a pint. A pound got you quite merry. Fish,chips and mushy peas were about 30p or 40p
30p to get into the Coop disco on Friday nights (Rock music) We all used to go round town first as the beer at the Coop was 27p a pint. Stagger in around 11 at night then straight to bed before the parents got home.
Driving lessons were £2.50 an hour and the firm I worked for paid half the cost and got Friday afternoons off for the driving lesson.

Great days

 

[CortinaV8]

Apprenticeship in data\comms - £50 per week in 2003, how I survived I have no idea.

 

[libby lou lou]

windupmtime, 11 quid a fortnight, on the dole, circa 1976, 30 yrs+ later, it's still not much better

 

[sooey]

It was actually 69 but I didn't put that cos it's rude.

 

[namsag]

Come on sooey get it right £3.17/6d not p

 

[Nige F]

£ 3/17/6d actually