What was your first jobs pay rate?
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Found out the scales of pay for my job today, and was wondering if any other fields of work can match it.
1st Year of Apprenticeship: £10.5k
2nd Year of Apprenticeship: £12.5k
3rd Year of Apprenticeship: £14.5k
Graduate Apprentice: £19k (For 6 months)
Then Starting on £27k
This is P/A 37hr weeks with no option of overtime/flexi.
1st Year of Apprenticeship: £10.5k
2nd Year of Apprenticeship: £12.5k
3rd Year of Apprenticeship: £14.5k
Graduate Apprentice: £19k (For 6 months)
Then Starting on £27k
This is P/A 37hr weeks with no option of overtime/flexi.
1987 I was lucky to working in the print industry in what was probably the best time ,money what ridiculous for what we did. We were a mid-large sized commercial printer, with in house platemaking and finishing, our customers included Lex Leasing, Kodak, Unilever, GSK
Started as an apprentice Litho Printer, 36 hour basic week.
16 - 17 £6.50p.h plus £15 pw good time keeping bonus (allowed 15mins lateness per week) o/t available during the week first 4 hours 1.5x then 2x unless after 9pm then everything 2x and 3x on Sundays/Bank Holidays
17-18 as above but hourly rate increased to £8.10
18 - 19 as above but hourly rate increased to £12.50 plus £4.50 hour shift allowance, plus bonus scheme of 2x hourly pay for every hour over set hourly amount of work achieved (also added onto any O/T being worked) i.e we were expected to run 6000 sheets per hour, but I was running a brand new machine that could pump out 15000 sheets per hour so with a few hours O/T a week plus a Sunday it was easy to earn £1K-2K+ a week, our company car park resembled a city trading car park - the guy who did our machine repairs had a 911 as his work van.
Still got a few mates in the industry and the pay is pitiful compared to the old days, mate on perm. nights (only 3 x 12 nights per week mind) is only on £32k with very little O/T and this is working for one of, if not the biggest names in the game.
Started as an apprentice Litho Printer, 36 hour basic week.
16 - 17 £6.50p.h plus £15 pw good time keeping bonus (allowed 15mins lateness per week) o/t available during the week first 4 hours 1.5x then 2x unless after 9pm then everything 2x and 3x on Sundays/Bank Holidays
17-18 as above but hourly rate increased to £8.10
18 - 19 as above but hourly rate increased to £12.50 plus £4.50 hour shift allowance, plus bonus scheme of 2x hourly pay for every hour over set hourly amount of work achieved (also added onto any O/T being worked) i.e we were expected to run 6000 sheets per hour, but I was running a brand new machine that could pump out 15000 sheets per hour so with a few hours O/T a week plus a Sunday it was easy to earn £1K-2K+ a week, our company car park resembled a city trading car park - the guy who did our machine repairs had a 911 as his work van.
Still got a few mates in the industry and the pay is pitiful compared to the old days, mate on perm. nights (only 3 x 12 nights per week mind) is only on £32k with very little O/T and this is working for one of, if not the biggest names in the game.
Mr Classic said:
Found out the scales of pay for my job today, and was wondering if any other fields of work can match it.
1st Year of Apprenticeship: £10.5k
2nd Year of Apprenticeship: £12.5k
3rd Year of Apprenticeship: £14.5k
Graduate Apprentice: £19k (For 6 months)
Then Starting on £27k
This is P/A 37hr weeks with no option of overtime/flexi.
it's more than Newly qualified 9none Medicla ) Health professional who will do 3 years on student loan/ grant ( extra money for extra weeks ) / Bursaries and then 21and a bit k + shift allowance for 6months ( assuming first increment on completion of preceptorship) and then the next 5 years working up to the ratefor the job ( doesn;t matter if you meet the gate way competencies before ) assuming there isn;t an incremental freeze at any point ( which the BiB had)1st Year of Apprenticeship: £10.5k
2nd Year of Apprenticeship: £12.5k
3rd Year of Apprenticeship: £14.5k
Graduate Apprentice: £19k (For 6 months)
Then Starting on £27k
This is P/A 37hr weeks with no option of overtime/flexi.
1986 - £60.00 per week for making watch parts and other stuff in an Engineering company that I rode my BMX to get there for. I was 16 or so.
I used 50 weeks for the total to hide holidays or sick, although I didn't take any any so works at £3K for the year.
It was great I liked it and learned a lot that still helps me today. I still recognize the smell of the oil now, before that I did work experience in an slaughter house.
I used 50 weeks for the total to hide holidays or sick, although I didn't take any any so works at £3K for the year.
It was great I liked it and learned a lot that still helps me today. I still recognize the smell of the oil now, before that I did work experience in an slaughter house.
P1ato said:
Graduate salary of £11,250 in 1989. Increased to £15K in 1990.
Bought 1st house for £115K in Richmond in 1994 when I was on £42K + £10K bonus. The same house would be £750K+ now...Wage inflation hasn't kept up...
Going from £15k in 1990 to £52k in 1994 isn't too bad going!Bought 1st house for £115K in Richmond in 1994 when I was on £42K + £10K bonus. The same house would be £750K+ now...Wage inflation hasn't kept up...
My first job was crazily lucrative:
£9,500 for 10 weeks work, as a summer intern at an investment bank.
Took me a few years before I was earning that amount again.
I left school in 1959. I had 15 job offers all in banking or insurance. I started at an insurance company as a junior clerk on £255 pa for a 35 hour week. A year later 3 of us complained about our low salary scale and we got a rise to £280 pa.
By 1964 when I got married I was earning £950 pa. We rented a fully self contained two bedroomed flat in central Croydon (it was a nice town then) for £25 pm.
I remember our weekly shop was about £2.50 pw and coffee was the most expensive item costing around £0.45 a week!
Those were the days...
Interestingly, my hourly charge rate when I retired in 2004 was £410, about 150% more than my annual salary when I started out.
R.
By 1964 when I got married I was earning £950 pa. We rented a fully self contained two bedroomed flat in central Croydon (it was a nice town then) for £25 pm.
I remember our weekly shop was about £2.50 pw and coffee was the most expensive item costing around £0.45 a week!
Those were the days...
Interestingly, my hourly charge rate when I retired in 2004 was £410, about 150% more than my annual salary when I started out.
R.
When I started working my charge out rate to clients was £20 per hour. The computer was charged out at £25. So if I worked on a spreadsheet or used some software the charge out rate was £45 per hour.
The salary increase from 1990 to 1994 was down to getting ACA and ATII qualifications...
The salary increase from 1990 to 1994 was down to getting ACA and ATII qualifications...
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.
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