Can you remember your first wage and how much ?

[j4yc]

Mine was £2-8- 2p per wk in 1959 take home pay after deductions £1-19s.

Edited October 26, 2009 by j4yc

[Puffin4]

In 1956, I was articled to a chartered accountant and received the fantastic remuneration of 12 guineas per month, before stoppages. This included Saturday mornings. My boss told me that I should consider myself fortunate as some pupils still had to pay for their tuition.

 

Mike

[oap1942]

My dad was a setter and sharpener in the saw department at FBT at that time,

i was apprentice fitter,i stuck it for 12mnths Dad stayed for years.

[deedar]

£14 a week in 1976 at Centaur Cast Alloys ont Parkway, Straighten and Gauge department making sure the metal hip joints and DC10 engine parts were straight and within tolerance. A pint was 14p, 10 no.6 were 9p, bus fare was 2p and me Mam got the rest.

[xfox3x]

£7 per week at Cole Brothers 1970.

My sister started the same year for £5 as an office junior and other friends also earned £5 as shop assistants.

I wasn't allowed to keep more money than my sister and was made to pay £2 extra board.

Cue moody and magnificent teenage tantrums of which my parents took not a jot of notice!

[MARY POPPINS]

My first wage in 1970 as a G.P.O telephonist was £8, can still remember the thrill of queing up, and having that crinkly envelope handed to me.

 

My mum decided it was £2 for her, £2 for me, for bus fares etc, £2 for clothes and £2 to save, wow it sure did go a long way.

[Nodens]

I started work as an engineering apprentice at English Steel Corporation (latterly British Steel Corporation}, at the age of 15, in August 1963 when I was paid the princely sum of £2-15s-0d per week (£2.75p). We worked a 42 hour week.

 

I gave my mother £1 per week, 15 shillings went on bus fares and sandwiches and I had a whole £1 to myself. In those days I spent it on football matches 2 shillings (10p) or a pop record (45 rpm), they were 6s 8d (abt 33p)

 

 

My pay rose by £1 per week every birthday until my 21st in June 1969 when I was paid £28 per week - so much for the Amalgamated Engineering Union.

Edited October 25, 2009 by Nodens

[leahiz]

i thought £3.55 was bad 5years ago when i was 16 lol.. the chequers pub at coal-aston

[catkins]

apprentice at firth brown 17/9 per week for 6 months then 21 shillingsup to 18 yrs old then i went in the army and took a pay cut out of which we had to buy brasso polish and blanco the good old days we were screwed getting shot at for about a quid in korea what a laugh. wouldnt have missed it for the world trust worthy mates to cover your back and get you out of the muck. long lasting friends times to treasure lol

[me-and-pippo]

My first job in 1970,

a farm labourer @ £5:00 a week.

Mucked out pigs, chickens & dog kennels,

also painted all the woodwork on the farm

with creosote and tar.

Must have smelt like a walking farmyard

when I caught the bus back home,

happy days.

 

m&p