Your first wage.
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Just came up in conversation.
It was 1987 for me that I started work (took a summer job in a factory and didn't go back to college) earning the grand total of £4,200 a year.
As I recall that was c£80 a week take-home and I gave my mum £20 of that.
Doesn't sound like much now does it?
Can anyone come in lower than that?
It was 1987 for me that I started work (took a summer job in a factory and didn't go back to college) earning the grand total of £4,200 a year.
As I recall that was c£80 a week take-home and I gave my mum £20 of that.
Doesn't sound like much now does it?
Can anyone come in lower than that?
NormalWisdom said:
1980 - Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) Reading
£3200 a year
Took home just over £200 a month and gave Mum £50
Worked there for 16 years before the ailing company made me redundant whilst I was working in Auckland
That was probably quite good money in 1980? For a first years salary.£3200 a year
Took home just over £200 a month and gave Mum £50
Worked there for 16 years before the ailing company made me redundant whilst I was working in Auckland
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/education/Pages/res...
If I'd have stuck with same job (£4,200 in '87) and just got an inflation based pay rise each year I'd be on a whopping £11,000 a year now.
I'm sure someone will come along to point out I've got that completely wrong...
If I'd have stuck with same job (£4,200 in '87) and just got an inflation based pay rise each year I'd be on a whopping £11,000 a year now.
I'm sure someone will come along to point out I've got that completely wrong...
brickwall said:
I remember my first job was unbelievably lucrative - I could barely believe my eyes.
Intern in investment bank in London in 2010 - it was £42,000 pro rata, for 10 weeks. However once you included pro-rata holiday pay (because no-one took any holiday during the 10 week internship) you got 11 weeks pay.
Worked out at something like £890 per week. Just under £9k gross for a summer job - paid for the final year of uni.
It's the same these days, except the increase in the personal allowance means now the whole lot is tax free!
Very nice indeed!Intern in investment bank in London in 2010 - it was £42,000 pro rata, for 10 weeks. However once you included pro-rata holiday pay (because no-one took any holiday during the 10 week internship) you got 11 weeks pay.
Worked out at something like £890 per week. Just under £9k gross for a summer job - paid for the final year of uni.
It's the same these days, except the increase in the personal allowance means now the whole lot is tax free!
drainbrain said:
1970 selling PF Collier encyclopaedias door-to-door via an office in South Ken.
£15 commission per sale. Sell 2 in any evening and manager took you to the Playboy Club for a steak dinner!
Very 70's. I can picture you in a brown flared suit and kipper tie knocking on doors answered by bored housewives in those rayon dressing gowns.£15 commission per sale. Sell 2 in any evening and manager took you to the Playboy Club for a steak dinner!
Then off to the Club later for steak and Blue Nun with your seedy boss who has a combover.
JMGS4 said:
When I started I got the princely sum of 2 1/2 guineas a week (£2 12s 6d for the youngsters who don't know real money!) of which we could only draw 10/-, certainly went further than today as I could take my girlfriend to the pub for a quick half, then off to the pictures for the 10 bob..... and be able to afford the "Something for the weekend sir?" as well....
I'm guessing that was '76?As in 1876.
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