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My goodness you're taking me back. I went to work in the local supermarket in Edinburgh as a trainee manager in 1975 and earned £10.32 for my first weekly wage. Six months later I moved to Surrey and got a similar job which paid £16.00 per week. I only lasted 3 months and went to work with my cousins as a hod carrier on the building sites and was paid a staggering £33.40 a week God I was in the dosh alright ha ha.

Thanks for the memories.

£12 in 1976. Apprentice Hairdresser.

Oh well Uzzi, I suppose everyone else must have been on the,


ROCK N ROLE,,,,,,Dole lol


Ray xx

Hello Uzzi...........I wish I hadn't thought about your question ..........lol

I worked in an amusement arcade back in 1978 . I used to do a 60 hour week for the grand sum of £30 !!

Mind you I did have the time of my life and look back on those long ago days with a big grin : ))

Amanda

£6 a week as a lifeguard at a holiday camp in 1977 Went shooting up to £16 as a trainee sales manager at the co-op then joined the Navy for some real cash

1944 £1 per week plus keep, 12 hour days, AG LAB.

£3/week gross 1961

Hi Uzzi.

My first wage, 1974, for 40 hours in a pharmaceutical factory, was £16.64p, take home pay. I was 16 at the time.

Gail

Keith

Do you mean to tell me they payed you for stripping the lead off

the church roof ?

only joking mucker lol

Ray

£7 per week doing apprenticeship

And still had change for me bus fare home lol, happy days

Nudge for a good thread

Ray

1963 working in the invoicing department at The Distillers Co. in Green Park, opposite The Ritz for £4.10s per week

Linda

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.

£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!

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

£28. in 1978 working in Sainsbury's

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

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)

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

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 !