Your first wage.
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I was earning £60 a week for two part time jobs and a spot of entrepreneurship in my final year of school back in 1980. Left school and went to work on a farm for few months before college.
I got £50 a week with £20 taken off for my keep so halved my income when I started my first 'proper' job.
I got £50 a week with £20 taken off for my keep so halved my income when I started my first 'proper' job.
1985. YTS scheme, working in a sport shop for £27.30 a week.
It was crap, but it was all that was going at the time. I thought I would stay on in the 6th form for a year, but it wasn't for me. Left after a month, when all the decent apprentiships had already been snapped up by the people who had left school when I should have.
That one month cost me dear.
It was crap, but it was all that was going at the time. I thought I would stay on in the 6th form for a year, but it wasn't for me. Left after a month, when all the decent apprentiships had already been snapped up by the people who had left school when I should have.
That one month cost me dear.
Aside from part time school jobs etc, my first proper job where I got paid, was £5.24 per hour in 2003 at the airport.
I still work for the same company now, as it happens. The people who do the same job that I started out on, nearly 14 years later, are earning £7.65 per hour.
which means that, on average, the staff now have managed to obtain an inflation-based payrise every year. The power of the union in our business area, is clearly very weak.
I still work for the same company now, as it happens. The people who do the same job that I started out on, nearly 14 years later, are earning £7.65 per hour.
which means that, on average, the staff now have managed to obtain an inflation-based payrise every year. The power of the union in our business area, is clearly very weak.
louiechevy said:
1983 Edgley Aircraft working as an aircraft grp laminator for £1.00 an hour with overtime took home just under eighty pounds a week!
That's pretty poor for what sounds like quite a technical job, my 50p an hour in 1977 rising to 70p an hour in 1978 was for an apprentice panel beater but it sounds grander than it was, not even a proper garage IMO but I suppose in the 70s most places were spraying cancer in a shed
He was paid in Lira, like my mate who used to be a millionaire every month!First proper job was with kwiksave, shelf stacker while still at school. £3.60 an hour and you got time and a half on Sundays. Back in 2003. Would get £350 a month. Was great and i used to stick most of it away in my ISA, being 16 i didn't have much to spend it on. Then we lost the time and a half as the weekday workers took a 5p an hour pay rise, on the condition the Sunday became normal pay. w
kers the lot of them. 
When i was 17 i had a summer job with Glasgow city council as a playworker, £9.21 an hour to play football, do arts and craft etc, 30 hours a week for 7 weeks. Did that for 6 summers, was a great top up for college and other work stuff.
It was packed with students, as we all used the cash to help during the year. Plus the nights out were great, and messy as hell.
kers the lot of them. When i was 17 i had a summer job with Glasgow city council as a playworker, £9.21 an hour to play football, do arts and craft etc, 30 hours a week for 7 weeks. Did that for 6 summers, was a great top up for college and other work stuff.
It was packed with students, as we all used the cash to help during the year. Plus the nights out were great, and messy as hell.
First job was a paper round, £3 for 6 days a week, extra £2 if you were chosen to do Sunday, but you had to be one of the chosen ones.
Picked potatoes and raspberrys during school hols, don't remember how much we got paid though.
First 'proper job', was a trainee metal fabricator under Thatchers YTS scheme in 1987, take home pay was £30 per week plus my bus fare. Used to give my mum £10 per week, thought I was loaded.
Picked potatoes and raspberrys during school hols, don't remember how much we got paid though.
First 'proper job', was a trainee metal fabricator under Thatchers YTS scheme in 1987, take home pay was £30 per week plus my bus fare. Used to give my mum £10 per week, thought I was loaded.
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