Can you remember your first wage and how much ?

[harmston 10]

I am old

 

Started work 1951 £1 15 PERWEEK 48 HRS

N/S 1954 £2 9 SHILLINGS all found

BUS CONDUCTOR 1957 £9 10shillings extra for sunday working worked 48 hr week

married 1967 £1000 per year working days and nights about 5 12 hour shifts

and i thought i was rich

The boss gave me £25.00 raise PER YEAR AS A WEDDING PRESENT

 

My wife was earning £ 6-10 shillings for 5 1/half days 9-5 as a shop manageress

 

I bet someone will beat this

[ukdobby 224]

1970,£5 2s and 6d apprentice at Firth Brown Tools.

[chimay 10]

First place was Oswestry.

 

That wasn't with the signals was it?

[Lorri 10]

I've still got my first wage slip somewhere.... I think it was about £160 for the month as a nursing assistant at Middlewood hospital in 1981.

[Joanl 12]

1957 C & A's for £2/10 a week. 1 week after leaving school at 15. Had to tip all wage up to mom who gave me 5/- back to last for the week. Started paying "proper board" at 18

[awoollen 10]

I've still got my first wage slip somewhere.... I think it was about £160 for the month as a nursing assistant at Middlewood hospital in 1981.

my first wage was 19/11 pence old money 1944 when i was 14

[crookes 10]

From 1957-1963 I worked at Broomhill for a Sports Goods Manufacturers. My weekly wage was £1/2s/6d working from Mon–Fri and Saturday morning, at the start, for a 47½ hr week, and all the dust you could breathe in.

[chrishall 10]

I am old

 

Started work 1951 £1 15 PERWEEK 48 HRS

N/S 1954 £2 9 SHILLINGS all found

BUS CONDUCTOR 1957 £9 10shillings extra for sunday working worked 48 hr week

married 1967 £1000 per year working days and nights about 5 12 hour shifts

and i thought i was rich

The boss gave me £25.00 raise PER YEAR AS A WEDDING PRESENT

 

My wife was earning £ 6-10 shillings for 5 1/half days 9-5 as a shop manageress

 

I bet someone will beat this

 

1969 working as a tinplate varnisher with Metal Box Co. £70 for 5x12hr + 2x8hr shifts! Can't believe now how much that was then for a semi skilled job, tho it was covered by the printers union.

[shaznay 10]

my first wage was 19/11 pence old money 1944 when i was 14

 

are you our oldest one yet awoollen ? 19/11 what would that be in todays money

[Manxdeedah 10]

£3-18-9d as an SAC in the RAF 1962,including marriage allowance.

£11-7-9d on a six-wheeler for 50 hours basic in 1968 - but bags of overtime and elastic/throwaway log sheets made it even better.

[alankearn 10]

are you our oldest one yet awoollen ? 19/11 what would that be in todays money

 

£33-44

 

 

 

 

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/historic-inflation-calculator

[shaznay 10]

£33-44

 

 

 

 

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/historic-inflation-calculator

 

thanks for that....interesting