Can you remember your first wage and how much ?

[JP58 0]

I seem to remember it being about £14 back in 1974 as an apprentice plumber. But, what I really do remember was that having started work in August 1974, I was on a temp tax code, but come the following April and good old HMRC had sorted my tax code out my wage dropped by about £5 - nearly skint me!

[joinerisme 10]

August 1974,apprentice joiner £12-87 after stoppages,had to pay £5 board.

 

 

 

[Boothie Boy 0]

I started as an apprentice electrician in 1970 at an hourly rate of 3 shillings and 4 pence (17 p), and my gross weekly pay was £6 - 19 shillings and 1 penny (£6.95p). Take home pay if I remember was around £5.00. Sounds rubbish but beer was only 12p a pint and cigarettes 20p for a pack of 20! Go figure...

[alfhsimpson 10]

On ‎14‎/‎07‎/‎2019 at 17:41, joinerisme said:

August 1974,apprentice joiner £12-87 after stoppages,had to pay £5 board.

 

July 1959 £1-17-6p for 44 hour week. JAG MECHANIC

 

 

[mikeG 16]

20/2/4d after my first month working for Barclays Bank, Hillsborough in 1960.

[francypants 441]

£8 odd per week at the London Electricity Board in 1970.

[irishill 0]

I worked at bassets my wage was 13 shillings a week and it was twopence to get there on the tram

 

[Heartshome 19]

£1.10/-   a weekend for 4 weeks during school Summer Holiday when I was 13, for

clearing tables, and taking orders to outside tables at a friends Cafe. ( I did feel rich )

I got some sweets & ice cream, then took the rest home for my Mum. But bless her, she saved it, and treated us to a day out in Bakewell. Nice !

[Steve56 0]

My first weeks wage in71 I was apprentice 15 yrs old £3.50

[briret 9]

Apprentice engineeer August 1967  three pounds seven and sixpence.

At eighteen beer was 1/11 a pint went up the weekend from  1/9.

[harvey19 541]

3 pounds 2 and 6 pence in 1964 at Avery scales.

You got an extra 2 and 6 pence if you went out on the lorry helping to check the drive on scaled.

Left to go in the building trade and got 6 pounds and 15 shillings at week in the same year.

Edited April 25, 2021 by harvey19

[Andromeda 10]

My first week’s wage, paid in cash, in 1970 was £7. 9s. 6p. When I was promoted in 1971 it increased to £9. 6s. I was never sure whether this was a lot of money as my friend, working for an insurance company, was given luncheon vouchers too.  She would save them up and treat us both to lunch in the Golden Egg every so often. And, she and her colleagues were also given hampers at Christmas.