Your first wage.

[Yex 450]

Another old Prudential hand here..........started in Southend on Sea office in 1983 on £2,800 a year and then to Head Office in 1987 on c£6000.

30 years in the City next month

[driverrob]

Christmas 1963, as an under 18 year old student doing Post Office deliveries and sorting - 1/1d per hour but I put in over 80 hours so I was flush

[Gunk]

Yex 450 said:

Another old Prudential hand here..........started in Southend on Sea office in 1983 on £2,800 a year and then to Head Office in 1987 on c£6000.

30 years in the City next month

I was on £6000 plus commission in 1985, my girlfriend was in her last year at university with a grant and we managed to buy our first house in Northampton, nice bay fronted Victorian terrace £19,950!

[andymc]

A.J.M said:

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. wkers 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.

you put it in a ISA at 16? live fast die young