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Love these stories thank you everyone, keep them coming :-D

actually, being a teacher created its own difficulties with being paid.

i don't know what happens now, but back in those days, we got a double pay cheque at the end of July for July and August.

But we were then not paid again until the end of September.


It was VERY difficult to budget for that length of time!

........... especially as a single person living in digs when you needed to pay rent, buy food, travel costs, etc.



In case you're interested, I had just reached £100 per month take home pay in July 1967 when I quit my job to get married

Two months later I started work in Texas as a technician in the university ................ my take home pay was $400, which was then worth about £200-250

Boy, did we feel wealthy!

I can't remember how much I got when I first went out to work or how I got paid. I changed jobs ofen, sometimes to get better wages or because the job was boring! I worked in offices most of the time, and often did a part time evening job in a Wimpy bar or pub or nightclub bar. Somewhere at my house, I have an exercise book which I used when I first moved into a rented house, had had a bedsit before but not a whole house so it was a novelty and I wrote down the weekly? monthly incomings and outgoings, must have been around 1972 I think. I will have to have a look for it and see how much I earned then, working for a local housing office.

I do vaguely recall getting brown envelopes. It's fifty years last month that I started full time work so I am sure I was paid in cash at that time.


Lizx

I remember too getting a bit crafty with pay rises. My mum insisted she got half of the increase which I got very annoyed about eventually so I would lie about how much I got so she got about a third rather than half . Plus too she thought she was entitled to the increase on the gross amount rather than net amount after tax etc etc which annoyed me even more .

I am nearly 60 and left school in 1969 and have never been paid weekly. Never had any cash paid to me in a little brown envelope. Yet thought nothing of it, even though I saw Dad and Granddad with their weekly pay packets, and would watch Granddad sort it all out into different 'piles' ie Gran, Rent, bills etc.,

Have always been paid monthly via a bank account.

SylviaInCanada - I believe that teachers do get a payment during the school holidays, the school year running from the beginning of September - end of August.

When I worked term time only in a school (with the students but not as a teacher) they divided our per rata salary by 12 so that we had an equal amount each month of the year.

My first full time salary was also in a brown envelope something in the region of £17 plus commission. £9 went to mum who put away some of it for the next rail season ticket, and about £4 straight into a savings account.

Aaaahhhh he little brown envelope. When I left school I worked for the local authority and was given the "responsibility" of checking the pay clerks figures then checking the cash with the amount on the front of the envelope, them putting it in the envelope. Phew what a responsibility. The senior pay clerk was name Horace a terrifying man, and once told me off for laughing whilst I was working' he used to tut tut all the time, and peer at me over his glasses. Needless to say I do enjoy a laugh so I did not endear myself to him.

Thinking about it now the poor man was probably only about fifty years old, how cruel we were to laugh at him. Happy days!

I worked for a year as a 'bonus clerk' in the wages office of a factory. Every Friday morning someone collected the money from the bank (until they were mugged on the way back - then the money was delivered) and then we sat at desks with the little brown envelopes, wage slips and money in the middle and put the right amount in each envelope. Oh the drama when we finished and there was a coin or note left on the table lol - we had to check each envelope till we found which one was short. If we were a coin short we would put it in ourselves rather than go through them all - no one ever came back to say they had too much, but a penny short and they would be hammering on the door.

DET .................


We were paid for 12 months, beginning of September to end of August, but the July cheque was double the amount.

It may have been either because the staff at the Education offices were on holiday in August, OR because the single teachers almost all left the area in summer, while everyone else went on holidays ................... so it would have been difficult to hand us our cheques.

But the real problem was that we were paid at the end of the month (naturally enough!), so getting through the month of September was hard, especially if you had been unwise and used your August money to go on holiday :-)

when we first started working for the university here, we were paid twice a month .............. on the 15th and the last day of the month.

At first, we got a cheque with out pay slip, and had to take the cheques to the bank ourselves.

But then they started paying the cheques directly to the bank ............... but that was such a hassle for the longest time.

Because several times a year, the cheques would not be in your account on the expected date.

That's when we got in the habit of making direct payments from the bank 2 or 3 days after our salaries were supposed to be deposited.

Then they changed the system so that everyone was paid once a month, on the last day. That took some getting used to, as we were used to budgeting for 2 weekly payments.


It all works like clockwork now, of course ................. even goes into the bank early if the last day of the month falls on a weekend or a Stat holiday