Your First Wage Packet..

[byron 1,188]

how much was your's..

mine was three pound three shilling's..nautical school..first trip at sea, picked up thirty odd quid..three week trip,,landed three thousand odd kit..a kit in them days was ten stone..ten bob millionaire's we was..lol.........happy days..

[dave88 1,565]

£150 when i was 15...working in a pallet yard. £30 a day. Im only 29 so only going back to 2003

Edited August 29, 2017 by daveee88

[darbo 4,776]

1980 £39.00.

[Dabhand 887]

60bucks used to save 20with my oldman

 

20lodge to the old girl 20 for fags and dog food

good old days tho

[cragman 2,788]

£15.11p joiners workshop. Left there and went into double glazing and fitting. 60£ a week. Loaded ?

[darbo 4,776]

 

1980 £39.00.

you were well paid 1984 £2

Apprentice Electrician. The site i started on was on a special rate D2 cant remember what it means but extra money on top of the hourly rate.

[Chaff 3,622]

Yts 25 quid what a joke that was.

[kanny 20,685]

First proper packet I paid tax on 1987 £150 landscaping and I still had a sub of the boss the following Monday lol

[Chid 6,583]

2000 .. apprentice hgv mechanic £160 a week , felt rich seen as most I went to college with were only on £50/60 a week

[green lurchers 16,732]

First proper packet I paid tax on 1987 £150 landscaping and I still had a sub of the boss the following Monday lol

subs were the norm back then lol Edited August 29, 2017 by green lurchers

[green lurchers 16,732]

1977 £14 basic tips and selling a bit on the side doubled it up great days delivering furniture and selling the old stuff folk were tipping us to clear , we were like a gang of lovejoy antique dealers lol ?

Edited August 29, 2017 by green lurchers

[Greyman 28,851]

I used to earn a three pence piece for sweeping the sawdust up in the butchers after school age 7, 5 evenings, then £2.50 age 12 milk round Saturday/Sunday morning then first full time job £25 a week age 16, got a job in a nuclear power station soon after when it was still nationalised and wages were £189 a week, I thought I was Rockefeller for a while, bought a triumph 2.5pi for my first car and it cost me twice the purchase price to insure it but I was the bollox so did,nt care ( or I thought I was at the time )

[Blackbriar 8,569]

1979 aged 16, at the NCB.....think it was 60 quid-ish.

 

I know it was more than my old dad, who was on around 40 !

[Guest Navek]

First wage packet probably 100 a week .... first legal wage £75 week at scrap yard lasted two week

[neil r 1,861]

Think it was arbout £75 back in 87 as a labourer/welder . My old man got me the job with him the day after I left school at 15 . Lasted about 12 months before I jacked because I didn't like working with him and it's only in the last few weeks I've started speaking to him again