Your first wage.

[stuno1]

2005 - £13,400 basic and small commission on top. Cracked just over £15k in a year. Felt like a lot at the time to be honest.

[jet_noise]

Summer 1975 job 'twixt A-levels and university as a dogsbody in service dept. of a Volvo dealer from where my father bought his last two cars - estate 145 then 245.
A high PH rating for that role I think.

A whole £12 per week. And I had to cycle 4.5miles to get there. (cries of "luxury...").

Enough to buy my first (hi)-fi. Garrard SP25/Goldring G800/RTVC amp and some speakers I built myself with enormous 12" 20W Baker drivers. Sounded crap but it were mine, mine I tells ya,

regards,
Jet

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

£2.25 a day, plus tips, plus 1.5p for every litre of oil I could sell

[RammyMP]

I got £50 a week working in my dads office in 1981. He did buy my lunch though!

[Sheetmaself]

jdw100 said:

Sheetmaself said:

I did it the wrong way, started at 17 years old in late 90's on £35/hour and steadily its come down ever since!

I presume you're joking?

Sadly no, was reasonably good at tennis and was working as a coach.

[rossub]

1998 - £11,400 as an Assistant Accountant.

[Buster73]

1976 started as an apprentice mechanic on BL rubbish , £13 nett for 40 hours.

Day release for C&Guilds was 9.00 am till 9.00pm with no extra pay .

Great times but akin to slave labour looking back.

[grumpy52]

First wage was £1 per week for a paper round in 1967 ,first full time job was as a fishmonger with Macfisheries when I left school on £7 per week ,cold hands all day and people always knew if I was behind them by the smell of the sea ,in Bedford .

[Djtemeka]

South Africa
1993
Paper route 5 days a week paid R20. Or about £1.20 in todays money for a weeks work. Spent it all in an hour on the local shop's pinball machine

[catman]

1970. £8 per week...

Tim

[paulguitar]

smifffymoto said:

Apprentice Electrician in 1987,grand sum of £32 a week.
Who else used to look forward to the brown envelope of cash on Friday afternoon.Never made it last any further than Tuesday.

My first full time job was £80 per week, I think it was 1988. It was in a clothes shop Called ‘Nicholas Nicklebys’. It was standing up from 9-6 every day and each day felt like a lifetime. I was fortunate enough to get sacked after about 4 weeks.


I fondly remember later on getting brown envelope of cash on a Friday afternoon when I had a diving job. I was only 20 and it felt glorious to be getting paid to drive. I loved it and it always seemed to be sunny when I remember those Friday afternoons.

[jdw100]

Djtemeka said:

South Africa
1993
Paper route 5 days a week paid R20. Or about £1.20 in todays money for a weeks work. Spent it all in an hour on the local shop's pinball machine

So money well spent then!

[tim0409]

Sheetmaself said:

jdw100 said:

Sheetmaself said:

I did it the wrong way, started at 17 years old in late 90's on £35/hour and steadily its come down ever since!

I presume you're joking?

Sadly no, was reasonably good at tennis and was working as a coach.

That's a relief; I thought you were going to say you had been a rent boy

[Smitters]

Aged 14, local pub. £2.20/hr, which was a fortune. Started washing up, after six months was cooking three or four nights. Really showed that hard work made a difference, not time spent in the kitchen. Did another seven years in various pubs and various positions before realising I liked more regular hours.

Lucky me, in that I've had a job for 2/3 of my life.

[Robbo 27]

First job was serving petrol at a Shell filling station in York, got paid £1 for eight hourse work on a sunday.

First full time job was in an office in the centre of Leeds, got paid £650 a year.

I thank each day that I no longer have to go to work and don't need a salary.

[MXRod]

£4,7s.6d per week (Around £4.30 ) Apprentice electrician .early 60s
And prior to that 10s(50p) a day as a saturday boy in a hardware store

Edited by MXRod on Saturday 4th March 09:56

[MitchT]

First wage? £13/day working in a sports shop on a Saturday around 1989 I think.
First proper job? £4,500/year in 1994.

[RDMcG]

£2 a week serving petrol as an 11 year old in 1959. However my first real job as an articled clerk in Arthur Andersen & Co in 1970 paid the princely sum of£ 1200 a year.

[Mr Tom]

5 years at uni (finished last year) and last week was paid the equivalent of less than £6/hr

[andym1603]

1980, Started to work for a demolition firm. Working away from home for 5 nights. All for £48 and some pennies a week. One of the best jobs I've had.