What was your first jobs pay rate?

[croyde]

1979 I left school at 17 and worked at BHS for £40 a week, dole was £25 a week. Then I worked in a Shell garage (When they only sold petrol) for £80 a week but got made redundant so started out as a motorcycle courier.

£100 was my first week's wages and I didn't know my way around at all. Within 6 months I was easily getting between £300 to £400 a week. This was by 1981. A lot of money back then and I owned 3 motorbikes and a couple of cars.

[johnxjsc1985]

croyde said:

1979 I left school at 17 and worked at BHS for £40 a week, dole was £25 a week. Then I worked in a Shell garage (When they only sold petrol) for £80 a week but got made redundant so started out as a motorcycle courier.

£100 was my first week's wages and I didn't know my way around at all. Within 6 months I was easily getting between £300 to £400 a week. This was by 1981. A lot of money back then and I owned 3 motorbikes and a couple of cars.

Happy Days my salary increased 10 fold from 1980 to 1990.

[Scooby84]

£3.72 p.h back in 2001

[Hoover.]

In 1988 when I left school, job as a trainee QS £3,800/yrs ....... could of got more stacking shelves in Tesco

wonder if I made the right choice being a poor teenager

[JakeThePeg]

4.24 an hr back in 2010.

Now, 23k PA!

[bullitinhead]

Ignoring holiday and jobs while in full time education.

First job out of uni was an electricians mate on a local building contract in 1996 £5PH 10hours a day six days a week. First proper job

Next was railways electricians mate £8ph 12hours six plus days a week in 1997
Done the same ever since now a team leader now paid a little bit more.

Bullit

[Old Merc]

I left school at 16 and started work as an apprentice mechanic in 1963 on £3,10 shillings a week,that's £3.50 to all you youngsters.
Sounds slave labour doesn't it,but to put it into perspective five years later a bought a house for £2700 !!. £100 deposit and £19 a month mortgage.

[Zyp]

1985, YTS decorator, £27.50 per week.
And I gave my mother £10 of that for board and lodgings...

Oh yeah......