How much and when was your first full time wage packet?

[Seagull on the wing]

Navy Boy Seaman....5s a week....(25p)....1954....HMS St Vincent
First class boy.....7s / 6p............(62/and a half d) 1955
First ship Destroyer £3/11/6d...a fortnight.....1956.....HMS Saintes.

1970/74............£350 a week. Conveyor fitter/welder...self employed.

 

[grummitts gloves]

£50 a week. Laminator in a boat yard, 1983.


Sent from my iPhone using my fingers.

 

[Pumba04]

July 1987 - 265.37 (first months pay slip - still have it somewhere)

Drawing office trainee - basically stuck in a lower ground print room inhaling ammonia from a dyeline A0 printer copying and folding architect plans...

 

[tgretton87]

£150 a week Good old Mcdonalds. I made it up at lunch though ate my body weight in Nuggets.

 

[nomoremithras4me]

Me too, and I felt like I was loaded!

paid on Fri, skint on Sun, beer & footy

 

[Goldstone-Ghost]

£19.50 per week in 1976 working at Roberts Off Licence in Churchill Square.

 

[Matrix10]

£2/5/9p Trainee at Kolster Brandes TV factory in Hastings in 1964

 

[glasfryn]

£1/11/-6d
and I earned every penny

 

[tedebear]

$30 a day on Saturday manning (womaning) the half way house at Wollooware Golf Course, then progressed to starter and got $40 a Saturday. However that only started 6 months after I started working, prior to that I got free lessons in exhange for working as I was too young to get paid.

 

[Colossal Squid]

I got my first full time job when I was sixteen. I worked 35 hours a week at a rate of £5.90 per hour. As I recall I was paid weekly and it must have been about £160 odd that I took home. NI was considerably less in those days (the 90s).

The stupid thing is that today, minimum wage is just 10p more, hourly, than I was earning back in the day AND National Insurance contributions have SHOT up, so if I were working a minimum wage job today, I don't think I'd be any better off than I was back then. In fact I'd definitely be WORSE off. I remember I could buy a pint for under £2 in them days...

 

[8ace]

£120 p/w (gross) 1996
Was cash in hand so envelope included coppers after tax and NI deductions.

 

[sams dad]

£35.83p per month as a clerk for the Prudential Assurance Co. in Aug.1968

 

[Publius Ovidius]

£24 a week trainee accountant in 1977 at ja tuffin and co in ship street. Used to get paid in cash in a small brown payslip envelope with the calculations on the front of the packet.

Gone by the middle of the week on beer, football and bus fares.

 

[OzMike]

60 quid a week, scaffolding labourer 1976, back breaking work.

 

[xbakerbob]

33 quid for 42 1/2 hour week has a baker at Sainsbury`s at Brighton Hill in 1981,

Not enough dough.

 

[Amahwrang]

£40 per week + £5 tips (60hr week) Commis Chef 1983 Springwells Hotel Steyning

 

[tinx]

£110 a week working for Tyreco, the old tyyre warehouse at the bottom of coombe road thats now storage units. must have been about 1993 94

 

[severnside gull]

£150 a week Good old Mcdonalds. I made it up at lunch though ate my body weight in Nuggets.

Bet you had to eat a few more every day


I earned just short of £6 a week working for the Halifax back in the late 60's - £4 went to my mother for my keep and I kept £2 for travel, clothes and going out. Man was I rich! Left the job after 8 months to bum off round Europe and North Africa

 

[BigGully]

60 quid a week, scaffolding labourer 1976, back breaking work.

You dont know Fresher's per chance

 

[KneeOn]

450 a fortnight for 86 hours at McDonalds for 4.94 an hour.