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where did you work and what did you earn at what year ?

1 pound for working 8 hours on a Saturday at Sayers!
1972

I got half a crown for a paper round back in '64

Saturday job,plus school holidays, from when I was 13..wage: 15/- a day (75p). Increased to £1.00 a day at 16. Local greengrocers.

First proper job was in the Midland Bank .... wage £28 17/6 for the first month. 1969

45 quid a week, working evenings in the Fruitella factory. I had to give my Mum 15 of it, the rest used to keep me in fags and ran my social life! Hell, it even got me taxi's everywhere too!

It was 1985 fact fans :o))

n I am stunned at what we earned then

I had a summer job in a greasy cafe when I left school in 1983. I did about 40 hours, but can't remember how much it paid. I started as a shy 16 year old, but after 6 weeks of serving all the builders and lorry drivers soon learnt the art of cheeky banter.

I started my first proper full-time job on 2nd July 1984 as a dental nurse. I worked 36 hours (excluding running late) and earned £47 per week. I had to give my mum £15 a week keep. The first thing I bought with my first wage packet was a bouquet of flowers for my mum.

BTW - I have only had two full time jobs. That one for 18 years, and my present for 6 years.

Joanne my hat off to you for that.

from the age of 17 I only wanted 1 thing and that was my own pub. I did all the jobs going and the training courses, held other peoples pubs. I eventually bought my pub and sold it 2yrs later never again lol

Sorry Uzzi for PM. I meant to reply on here and pressed wrong button. Whoops!!

Uzzi

Having you own pub sounds like a dream job, but I guess it is extremely hard work.

Joanne xx

I started work for Cable & Wireless in Dec 1937 for the princely sum of 15 shillings per week.

I went to Athens to work as a Nanny in 1972 and was paid £20 a month plus living in.How I managed on that I will never know.Happy Days!

Think i got about £4 a week ,when I started work in 64

My first wage was £8 a week as an office junior at a local steel construction company around 1974 ish - I got a rise the week before I left, of 50p per week !

Saturday job

Van boy...... Wonderloaf,,,,,,1974 £1.50 and all the bread n cakes
I could carry home,,,mind you,I think fags were only 40p for 20 then

On leaving school early 1978 factory labourer
£ 29.50p £25 after deductions,,,£5 for working sat
so took home £30

Mind you I earnt it,,,,16 years old at the mercy of a
shop floor full of women aged 20 to 60
boy did they tease me,,,,,many a red face with embarresment
they were worse than any bloke on a building site lol

Ray

In 1963, my take home pay in an office job was £5 which was the same as my friend who worked as a library assistant. She paid £1 a week to her mum for her keep, mine took half, £2.50!!

I think petrol cost about 4s 2d a gallon then (21p)

When I was still at school I used to do waitressing on a Friday and Sat night at a local hotel, I got 30/- and they paid for my taxi home (cos the last bus went at 10pm). That was about 1971.

In 1972, my last school summer holidays before going to college....got a job in local hotel as a Receptionist, and was paid £12 p.week. I would have stuck it for the whole 6 weeks if the other receptionist had been half human. She was such a nasty bitch, and made my life hell. But in those days I didn't say boo to a goose, I'd been brought up not to answer back, so I just took it.

K

£28. in 1978 working in Sainsbury's

I earned half a crown doing a paper round .
and then my first full time job was in a clothes shop
i got £2. a week of which they took 10/s for insurance
so leaving me £1 . 10 s £1.0.0. of that went to my mum for my keep .
and the 10s was for me for the week and it used to last me as well lol
Edit 1956.
Hazelx

£39.6s & 8p (old money) net of tax - pay for September 1968 working for The National Bank (long before it became Royal Bank of Scotland).

We never heard of 'bonuses' in those days!

My first job was as a live out Nanny. I got £1an hour and worked 30 hours a week. This was in 1981. After a year I got a rise to £1.10 an hour. I stopped nannying in 1987, by which time I was earning £2.50 an hour. I then worked for a short time in a toy library 20 hours a week for £3300 pa. In 1988 we moved to Hertford and I got a job in the cash office in Boots. 40 hours for £4700.