jmdee   10 #145 Posted January 23, 2018 2 Quid a week, apprentice TV tech at Wigfall's. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
alanfergus   10 #146 Posted January 24, 2018 £2.18.4 per week for 40hrs. I nearly always worked Saturday morning until 11.30 then off to play football at FBT ground Ecclesfield. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Westonfront   10 #147 Posted January 24, 2018 1972 £5.50 a week as a production apprentice at BSC on Sheffield rd by 1975 I was on £25 and my dad thought that was good money. First house 18 month old semi detached in Catcliffe £6500. Yer seems unbelievable now six and a half grand. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
trastrick   866 #148 Posted January 24, 2018 I must hold the record.  7pence, farthing an hour (7d 1/4) for a 44 hour week at F.H. Wheelers, with most of that going to our single mother household! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
parkydave   10 #149 Posted January 24, 2018 £3.7s.1p an apprentice at Jessop Savilles Brightside lane 1963 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Person6   10 #150 Posted January 24, 2018 Weekend job in carwash 1969, 50p for Saturday, £1 for Sunday, 90 cars washed on average. First proper job working in I.T., or Data Processing as we called it then, for Unilever £532 per year after 4 years in Uni. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
suzyoo   11 #151 Posted January 24, 2018 (edited) 1971 factory worker 40 hour week plus Saturday morning overtime took home pay £7.00 a pint of Websters Pennine bitter 10 pence Edited January 25, 2018 by suzyoo update Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
alankearn   10 #152 Posted January 24, 2018 If my memory is not letting me down,and not my first pay packet.  As a a private doing National Service 2 pounds 4 shillings around 1951 Senior Service Fags, 6 old pence for 20  That will take some beatng Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
alan p   15 #153 Posted January 24, 2018 My first wage at 15yrs was £2.7.6. Apprentice butcher with Gilvarays on Gower Street. He took 2/6 back and put it in a bank account for me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
3dogman   11 #154 Posted January 27, 2018 I left school in 1968 and was set on as an apprentice turner at Firth Browns. My first wage was £3-17s-4d, which was about 8p a hour in decimal money. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
shellbelle   10 #155 Posted January 27, 2018 I started work in 1982 on £2,000 per annum at 17 after leaving college. In them days you had a pay rise alongside your age. I can remember going into the Director's office just after my 18th birthday and him saying that my wages had increased to £2018.00 per annum! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
martin441 Â Â 11 #156 Posted January 31, 2018 My first wage was 2-15s-6d .Working at Kayser Ellisons on Carlisle st, 1959. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...