How much, from whom and when was your first proper pay packet?

[El Presidente]

Excluding paper rounds etc.

£30 a week for a 37.5 hour week

American Express Post Room

July 1978

 

[surrey jim]

Sainsburys £318 a month (part time) Full time was threshers £950

edit sainsburys was about 5 years ago and threshers about 3

 

[Icy Gull]

Canine and Livestock Insurance, Spring St London - £17.00 per week

lasted 4 months and have avoided anything to do with insurance since

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Waitrose Brighton Supervisory one Trainee Manager £300 gross
August 1987

 

[Trufflehound]

£40 for a 40-hour week.

Factory floor gopher somewhere in Lancing, July 1978.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Waitrose Brighton Supervisory one Trainee Manager £300 gross
August 1987

Thats £300 per month £75 a week.

 

[smudge]

£25 a fortnight. RN 1978

 

[Easy 10]

TSB call centre battery hen, August 1990, about £420. I thought I'd won the lottery.

 

[Cian]

Carphone Warehouse, 2002, I can't remember the amount but it was in three figures and I felt well loaded.

 

[Hampden Park]

£21.00 a fortnight when i first joined up in the R.N. 7/7/1977

 

[Simon Morgan]

£73 from Primark last saturday

 

[rool]

Wilson Bristow above Websters Bookshop in North Street, July 1982. £28 a week plus LV's that were usually spent in Edlin's (?) delli, thanks to pat, on a young workers scheme.

 

[bailey]

On the YTS at Amex 1991 £29.50 per week (and my mum took a tenner of it for "housekeeping")

 

[Seagull's Return]

£45 for a 40-hour week as a wood machinist, 1980.

 

[chez]

£95 a week from ACS in Southwick in 1989

 

[Tricky Dicky]

1982 Singer Link Miles flight simulators in Lancing, was probably about £500 for a month ( £6k a year if I recall correctly )

 

[Charlie_g]

68 Pounds.
Two weeks money.
Apprentice Royal Navy
HMS Raliegh May 1984
Cash in hand.
Age 16.
Happy Days

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

£7 a week, Grand Hotel Brighton, 2nd Assistant Manager, 1965

 

[Deleted User X18H]

£95 a week from ACS in Southwick in 1989

Remind me what is was ACS

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

1979 - Legal & General £ 1700 per annum