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My lad has just started doing a paper round. For his Sunday round he gets paid £7.
When I did a paper round in the mid Eighties, I was getting between £10-15 per round depending on the size of the round. In today's money, that's £30-£45 according to the Bank of England!
Admittedly my round was around 45 papers, pretty much all of which were the Sunday Times or Telegraph, so massive in comparison to my lad's round today which is about 20-odd variations of "Too old to have the Internet" on Sunday, but even so, there can't be many roles which paid better in actual cash - rather than adjusted for inflation - thirty years ago than they do now.
Has anyone else done something in the past for which they got paid a fortune compared to now? Conversely, what roles have shot up in value?
When I did a paper round in the mid Eighties, I was getting between £10-15 per round depending on the size of the round. In today's money, that's £30-£45 according to the Bank of England!
Admittedly my round was around 45 papers, pretty much all of which were the Sunday Times or Telegraph, so massive in comparison to my lad's round today which is about 20-odd variations of "Too old to have the Internet" on Sunday, but even so, there can't be many roles which paid better in actual cash - rather than adjusted for inflation - thirty years ago than they do now.
Has anyone else done something in the past for which they got paid a fortune compared to now? Conversely, what roles have shot up in value?
Kermit power said:
My lad has just started doing a paper round. For his Sunday round he gets paid £7.
When I did a paper round in the mid Eighties, I was getting between £10-15 per round depending on the size of the round. In today's money, that's £30-£45 according to the Bank of England!
Admittedly my round was around 45 papers, pretty much all of which were the Sunday Times or Telegraph, so massive in comparison to my lad's round today which is about 20-odd variations of "Too old to have the Internet" on Sunday, but even so, there can't be many roles which paid better in actual cash - rather than adjusted for inflation - thirty years ago than they do now.
Has anyone else done something in the past for which they got paid a fortune compared to now? Conversely, what roles have shot up in value?
You were paid well, when I worked in a paper shop in the early 2000’s the paperboys would get 7 or 8 quid for a Sunday round, depending on how big the round was but 50 wouldn’t be an uncommon number. Sunday papers got so big we ended up having to drop a bag of papers off for themWhen I did a paper round in the mid Eighties, I was getting between £10-15 per round depending on the size of the round. In today's money, that's £30-£45 according to the Bank of England!
Admittedly my round was around 45 papers, pretty much all of which were the Sunday Times or Telegraph, so massive in comparison to my lad's round today which is about 20-odd variations of "Too old to have the Internet" on Sunday, but even so, there can't be many roles which paid better in actual cash - rather than adjusted for inflation - thirty years ago than they do now.
Has anyone else done something in the past for which they got paid a fortune compared to now? Conversely, what roles have shot up in value?
Kermit power said:
My lad has just started doing a paper round. For his Sunday round he gets paid £7.
When I did a paper round in the mid Eighties, I was getting between £10-15 per round depending on the size of the round. In today's money, that's £30-£45 according to the Bank of England!
You absolutely certain of that? I was getting that much per week for six mornings, probably 40 papers a day, around '87-'90. Was I just being criminally underpaid?When I did a paper round in the mid Eighties, I was getting between £10-15 per round depending on the size of the round. In today's money, that's £30-£45 according to the Bank of England!
Worked as a swim teacher from the age of 18-21 whilst studying back in the mid 90's earning between £10- £15 per hour. Quick look online suggestions they're not getting much more than £12 -£16 these days.
All my mates were working in pubs & shops for about £3 something an hour, I was definitely on to a winner
All my mates were working in pubs & shops for about £3 something an hour, I was definitely on to a winner
deckster said:
Kermit power said:
My lad has just started doing a paper round. For his Sunday round he gets paid £7.
When I did a paper round in the mid Eighties, I was getting between £10-15 per round depending on the size of the round. In today's money, that's £30-£45 according to the Bank of England!
You absolutely certain of that? I was getting that much per week for six mornings, probably 40 papers a day, around '87-'90. Was I just being criminally underpaid?When I did a paper round in the mid Eighties, I was getting between £10-15 per round depending on the size of the round. In today's money, that's £30-£45 according to the Bank of England!
I should add it was 7 mornings delivering papers and often two evenings going around collecting payments..
Delivering the local weekly free newspaper only paid around £3-4. It used to depend how many advertisement leaflets were with the paper. It was around 300 papers.
Half the time rounds of papers were found burned in the woods.
Edited by Driver101 on Thursday 30th January 17:45
Back in 2007 I got my second job in a finance department as a Finance Officer on £29,700. Fast forward to today I'm in the same sector, same location except as a "Head of" but still employ Finance officers @ 25-30k.
I don't understand how they survive in London but had 100 applicants on the last round and didn't use an agency.
Meanwhile my own house has gone up by 78% (standard for my area), food has gone up, fuel up, train travel up. Grim reality and even i feel squeezed at all angles. I'm pretty sure these people could get finance officer jobs elsewhere in the country on not too dissimilar money and have a better life.
I don't understand how they survive in London but had 100 applicants on the last round and didn't use an agency.
Meanwhile my own house has gone up by 78% (standard for my area), food has gone up, fuel up, train travel up. Grim reality and even i feel squeezed at all angles. I'm pretty sure these people could get finance officer jobs elsewhere in the country on not too dissimilar money and have a better life.
OP: you were massively overpaid!
I had evening paper rounds that were 30+ papers and I was paid £5!
I did 2 of those.
(Christmas tips were always really good as I covered an affluent area around Ferndown Golf Club
)
I also marked up all the morning papers every day for another £12/ week.
I worked behind the counter in the newsagents from 9am-1pm on Sat, another £8
£30 / week 1984-1986.
If I worked in the petrol station on Sunday (across the street from the newsagent), that was another £40!!
I had evening paper rounds that were 30+ papers and I was paid £5!
I did 2 of those.(Christmas tips were always really good as I covered an affluent area around Ferndown Golf Club
)I also marked up all the morning papers every day for another £12/ week.
I worked behind the counter in the newsagents from 9am-1pm on Sat, another £8
£30 / week 1984-1986.
If I worked in the petrol station on Sunday (across the street from the newsagent), that was another £40!!
deckster said:
You absolutely certain of that? I was getting that much per week for six mornings, probably 40 papers a day, around '87-'90. Was I just being criminally underpaid?
In the late 90's I got £8/week for the Mon-Sat round, and £4.50 for the Sunday. I used to love it when someone didn't turn up on the Sunday and I got to do 2 rounds!RC1807 said:
OP: you were massively overpaid!
Yeah, that sounds very high. I used to put the rounds together at Haywards Heath train station in 1984, mon-fri and got paid £15 per week (roughly £3ph). If one of the delivery boys called in sick (which was often) we were forced to do their rounds, which were usually £5-£7 and some had huge loads of FTs in and you could barely pick them up (for the offices).My part time job in the 90s was at an indoor karting place. 12-14 hour days at the weekend, sometimes hardly any break. A few people passed out with carbon monoxide poisoning during winter when the doors were closed. £2.50/hour. Those were the days.
With minimum wage and H&S laws I suspect it's a bit different these days.
With minimum wage and H&S laws I suspect it's a bit different these days.
xx99xx said:
My part time job in the 90s was at an indoor karting place. 12-14 hour days at the weekend, sometimes hardly any break. A few people passed out with carbon monoxide poisoning during winter when the doors were closed. £2.50/hour. Those were the days.
With minimum wage and H&S laws I suspect it's a bit different these days.
9am till 11pm? Blimey - what were you marshalling, enduro-karts?!With minimum wage and H&S laws I suspect it's a bit different these days.
Know what you mean about the conditions though, I nearly puked in my helmet a few times doing indoor GPs.
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