What was your first jobs pay rate?

[The Leaper]

Swerni,

My hourly charge rate was the responsibility of my employer and was their gross income...my annual package was very much less!

R.

[Prolex-UK]

75p per hour in 1977... Was the price of a gallon of 4 star petrol. Petrol pump attendant !

[LouD86]

Started full-time work in 2004. I started on £11,180 which worked out dead on £5 an hour before tax. At 18, with little responsibilities, I thought this was great.

How times change, that wouldn't pay for the house now, let alone anything else!

[RegMolehusband]

1972. Rolls Royce apprentice. £12 a week.

My digs cost £6.50 a week and I ran a Morris 1000 and had a few beers on the remainder.

[Pit Pony]

1984 - part-time petrol sales £1 a hour.

1989 - Graduate engineer monthly take home £658. Fiancée take home £600 average - Mortgage £300

1991 Monthly take home £700, Wife's £620 average and wants to start a family - mortgage rate went up and they want £550 a month

2014 Mortgage £zero. Joint Salary and Dividends from business £24550

[TheAngryDog]

1997 - NVQ - £45 a week
1998 - First job - £440 a month

[barker22]

BoRED S2upid said:

13 years old £3 for 15 minutes work cash in hand.

Maybe you should talk to someone about that
There's a huge operation dedicated to this sort of thing!

[Monkeylegend]

1969 £8-1-6d a week so about £418 per annum.

[BrownBottle]

TheAngryDog said:

1997 - NVQ - £45 a week
1998 - First job - £440 a month

Flash bd

1993 - YTS - £29 per week

[Sheepshanks]

johnxjsc1985 said:

when I started my apprenticeship in 1976 I was on £700 A YEAR

£325/yr (£6.50/wk) for me as an apprentice in 1973.

[Tanguero]

Depressingly I now pay more in tax & NI per month than my first annual salary was. Progress for you!

[johnxjsc1985]

Sheepshanks said:

£325/yr (£6.50/wk) for me as an apprentice in 1973.

Happy days......not

[Monkeylegend]

Monkeylegend said:

1969 £8-1-6d a week so about £418 per annum.

Not good etiquette to quote yourself but just to add I could fill my Mini 850 for £1 per tank, petrol was about 4 shillings and 6d a gallon. Forget how you should write that now, 4s-6d ?

I paid my Mother £2 per week board and the rest was mine to waste.

[Tonsko]

1996, 21, 12K per annum. Junior network engineer.

[tfin]

£12 a week paper round in about 2004/2005. Worked out at just over a quid an hour!

Then asda shop assistant while I was in college at £6.50 an hour.

Now in the third year of a four year apprenticeship on just over £14K. Should be on something in the region of the mid 20s when I come out of my time at 22.

[Chipchap]

1974 whilst awaiting the Sept intake for REME I took a job making venetian blinds in Glasgow at the princely sum of £8.50 per week gross and £0.50 per day Luncheon Vouchers.

A

[22s]

2007 - waiter - £7.20 an hour

2009 - first internship (oil company) - £21k per annum.

2012 - second internship (hedge fund) - £25k per annum

2013 - part-time at startup whilst studying - £5 per hour + commission

2014 - graduate job - 45k Euro + bonus (tech company)

[sparks_E39]

Mr Classic said:

Started this apprenticeship at 18 after 2 years in college, you could have applied from school. Seemed a better paid, more reliable way into the industry where most of my friends have gone to uni. Practical experience is invaluable plus an NVQ and BTEC. When my friends come out of uni I'll be on 19k so it's not too bad when you look at it that way.

19k is a good salary at your age/experience. The only place you'll hear otherwise is on PH.

[AB]

Out of uni in 2008 at 21, £24,000 pa in a graduate role.

Not the best paid industry for a grad.

Got steadily better luckily.

[AB]

Out of uni in 2008 at 21, £24,000 pa in a graduate role.

Not the best paid industry for a grad.

Got steadily better luckily.