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

[El Presidente]

£30 for a 35 hour week at Amex in Edward Street, July 1978.

 

[Phat Baz 68]

£56 a week as plasterers labourer in Crowborough when i first left school in 1984.

 

[Ernest]

£30 after deductions for railman in 1980

 

[Basil Fawlty]

£675 back in February 2007. When I first started at Somerfield.

 

[Pbseagull]

£34.60 Topman churchill Square 1979- I've still got my first payslip

 

[leigull]

First full time job would have been about £800 for a month, circa 2004.

First pay ever would be about £6 or £7 for a weekly paper round, approx 1996

 

[TheBlueAndWhiteStrips]

£475 36.5hours at Tesco, on the Wines and Spirits back in 1993

 

[del strangefish]

48 million p.a. CEO at Apple UK

 

[Westdene Seagull]

About £430 per month in 1988 working for the Alexandra Hotel in Hove.

 

[Pbseagull]

48 million p.a. CEO at Apple

Any chance you could lend/give me a few grand?

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

£50 was on £10 a day carrying the monkey (hod),used to get pissed up friday & saturday night and still have some change in my pocket for a quiet sunday lunch time session

 

[chucky1973]

12.50 a week for being a Butchers boy at Hedley Vicars, 4 evenings a week after school for 2 hours and all day Saturday, But i did take home a HUGE box of meat on a Saturday s not all bad!! (1986)

 

[seagullondon]

10p and a sweet from my german teacher for the "work" i did for him in the cupboard

 

[Hillian1]

£17.30 a week on a bloody YTS scheme for British Rail, 1985.

Based out of Brighton Station however and got free burgers from Casey Jones on the platform.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Started work as a trainee QS in 1973. My salary has increased by 16400% (excluding bonuses)

 

[Pbseagull]

10p and a sweet from my german teacher for the "work" i did for him in the cupboard

That is soooooo wrong ( but very very funny)

 

[Durlston]

500 quid a month in March 1997 for cleaning hotel rooms. I don't think I've ever been so unhappy in a job although I used to find some interesting stuff from kinky fetish gear to drugs. I smoked some skunk I found but it knocked me out for the rest of the day and I puked up because it was so strong.

 

[middletoenail]

£360 a month for a 28 hour week + college day release as a 'apprentice' for Amex in 2000.

 

[Mileoakman]

£4 19s 6d for a 40 hour week from Brighton Borough Council in 1961. It was £5 a week but I had to pay 6d income tax. Mind you it only cost 2d to go to work on the bus and I think getting in the Albion for a youngster was only 1s (5p).

 

[Trufflehound]

£40 for a 40-hour week as a mindless factory floor "lever-puller", 1978.