First job,first wage.

[city2]

I started as a apprentice electrician and my wage was £4-2s-4p for a 40hr week. Use to catch the 101 bus from wythenshawe into Manchester at 7am, I worked for a small electrical firm in Lever street and it was called M W Williams.

 

[Lancet Fluke]

My first job was at a factory next to the brewery in moss side using a fly press. Was getting paid 1 pound an hour. I say getting paid, I didn't get paid at all because I told the bloke in charge of me to fuck off and walked out on the second morning. Think the firm was called Howells electronics.

 

[paulbob]

My 1st job was as an apprentice printer. My first wage was £4/16s/4d. I gave my mum £2 of that for my board.

 

[willipp]

Quick save stacking shelves on £1.93 an hour. I don't miss it.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

First proper job was in 1977 as a trainee accountant and I got £1700 per annum, which is about £32 a week. I was never going to make it as an accountant but some great people worked there and we had some laughs.

 

[Meatbag]

Shopping Giant, shelf stacker. Don't know the wage, slept since then! Paid weekly cash in a brown envelope (sounds like a familiar method of payment that lives on to this day in other professions)

 

[i kne albert davy]

Apprentice Engineer Thomas Story's Portwood £12.50 a week. £2.00 to Mum pound a week for bus fare the rest was mine. Mind you season ticket was only £11 if I remember correct.

 

[manctheknife]

1977. Age 16. Trainee draughtsman BDP Architects.Mcr....£19 p/w. cash.
Spent my first Friday aft full of bitter, sat on a strippers chair...forget the pub.

 

[stony]

Apprentice upholsterer £30 a week.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

Apprentice upholsterer £30 a week.

Sounds like a cushy number.

I washed out barrels of ink for £2 an hour. Loved the smell of it but it might have brained my damage. Also got electrocuted and didn't twig for about ten years, but that's another story.