John Ashmore Posted June 4, 2019 Share Posted June 4, 2019 In 1965, when I was 15. I worked at Alderson Dust & Graham. I was the office boy and my wage was £3.10 shillings per week. Less 9 shillings for my national insurance stamp. Paid my Mum and dad my keep. Think I had £1.10 shillings for myself. Wonder if kids still pay their way now. I’m sure some do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammo sparks Posted June 4, 2019 Share Posted June 4, 2019 £27.88 a week in 1983 to 84 as an apprentice electrician, never any different even if you did overtime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zumba Zebra Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 £12,900 a year when I got my first "proper" job (1995). I thought I had won the lottery when I got my first payslip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FatFrank1 Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 When i started work1962 my first wage was £2 .10shillings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FIRETHORN1 Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 (edited) I started work in 1974, as a Clerical Assistant for Post Office Telecommunications, (which later morphed into British Telecom, then, later, became BT). My first wage was £14.63 a week - and I remember being the envy of my most of my friends, who left school on the same day as I did. Most of them became factory girls, shop assistants, hairdressing apprentices etc - and were earning about £8-10 a week - so I was earning "good money" in comparison to my peer group. I still lived at home then and my parents were quite reasonable in what they asked us to pay for our "board" when their kids started work. Their rule was quite simple - they asked for a third of our take-home pay - whatever we were earning. Out of my £14.63 a week, I gave my parents £4.50...and out of the ten quid or so left, I bought clothes, went up town with my mates, did a pub crawl and ended up somewhere like Scamps or Genevieve "nite spots" at least once a week on a Friday or Saturday. I went to the local pubs with mates on a midweek evening at least one a week, went with them to watch Wednesday at Hillsborough when they were playing at home. I could afford a fairly pleasant lifestyle. The wages back then seem ludicrously low - but so were the prices. It was about 20p for a pint of bitter, 25p for a pint of lager, the admission fee into the discos was about 25p too - but you smuggled your own alcoholic drinks in - rammed inside your poky little 70's handbag - because their drinks were 3 times the price of the same in pubs! Crikey...how some things have changed … and yet some things are much the same! I guess it's all relative, really. Edited July 13, 2019 by FIRETHORN1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Petre Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 2 pound 17 and 6d At Franklin's Decorators then at Southey Green shops Herries Road (next to Essoldo)-8am-5:30 pm, five days as an apprentice painter in August 1962. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JP58 Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 I seem to remember it being about £14 back in 1974 as an apprentice plumber. But, what I really do remember was that having started work in August 1974, I was on a temp tax code, but come the following April and good old HMRC had sorted my tax code out my wage dropped by about £5 - nearly skint me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joinerisme Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 August 1974,apprentice joiner £12-87 after stoppages,had to pay £5 board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boothie Boy Posted August 12, 2019 Share Posted August 12, 2019 I started as an apprentice electrician in 1970 at an hourly rate of 3 shillings and 4 pence (17 p), and my gross weekly pay was £6 - 19 shillings and 1 penny (£6.95p). Take home pay if I remember was around £5.00. Sounds rubbish but beer was only 12p a pint and cigarettes 20p for a pack of 20! Go figure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfhsimpson Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 On 14/07/2019 at 17:41, joinerisme said: August 1974,apprentice joiner £12-87 after stoppages,had to pay £5 board. July 1959 £1-17-6p for 44 hour week. JAG MECHANIC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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