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Can you remember your 1st wage

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Linda G

Linda G Report 9 Feb 2009 15:14

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

Linda

Ray

Ray Report 9 Feb 2009 17:41

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

Nudge for a good thread

Ray

me

me Report 9 Feb 2009 17:49

£7 per week doing apprenticeship

Ray

Ray Report 9 Feb 2009 17:59

Keith

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

the church roof ?

only joking mucker lol

Ray

LanarkshireLassie

LanarkshireLassie Report 9 Feb 2009 18:02

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

David

David Report 9 Feb 2009 18:09

£3/week gross 1961

Researching:
Sometimes nothing is a real cool hand.

Bernard

Bernard Report 9 Feb 2009 19:21

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

Staffs Col

Staffs Col Report 9 Feb 2009 19:23

£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

Amanda2003

Amanda2003 Report 9 Feb 2009 19:45

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

Ray

Ray Report 11 Feb 2009 18:05

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


ROCK N ROLE,,,,,,Dole lol


Ray xx

^ ^ ^ Ancient Egyptian Spinx ^ ^ ^

^ ^ ^ Ancient Egyptian Spinx ^ ^ ^ Report 11 Feb 2009 18:59

£12 in 1976. Apprentice Hairdresser.

Tombul

Tombul Report 11 Feb 2009 20:37

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.

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