Can you remember your first wage and how much ?

[ken]

11.5 pence an hour for 48 hour week

[bazza63]

My first wage was £3. 17.6, worked in Wiggies  on Hilsborough 1955  6.

[Mr Allen]

£6 a week from Reclaim on Claywheels Lane! £2 a day for THAT?! Eh?!   

 

And it was deemed suitable for disabled people! Stood up all day in a mucky recycling Plant? Pardon?!  

 

Normally I would've thrown the insulting "pay packet" back and gone on a long  about the inequality of "pay" because all the workers were on benefits and couldn't earn much without the DWP jumped on them with sanctions but I thought I'd best not, plus Mum was so proud that day that I'd earned 3 days' wages! Yeah, 2 quid a day for a job I hated every single second of!

 

Fortunately this was in 2002 and all those kind of places are long gone! I still can't get a job though!

 

 

[Muscles]

My first wage in 1965 was £3. 17s 6p in real money as a junior wages clerk at Firth Brown Tools.

[Pugwash]

My first wage in 1960 was from Howell & co. As an apprentice fitter I earned £2/13/6 per week.
They knew how to spoil a lad in those days👍

[Yosemite Sam]

My first wage was £6. 13shillings (£5. 15shillings after tax) at the age of 18 as a Commercial Apprentice at Osborn Mushet Tools in 1968. When I retired in 2017 my annual salary was £43,000 working as a Development Manager for a well-known business lobbying organisation. Life certainly has its ups and downs.