First job,first wage.

[Crouchinho]

Mine was tele sales getting 3.50 an hour which I think was minimum wage. May have been 3.35. Some of my bonuses made me get close to 15 an hour which I loved!

Fast forward a year or two after that I turned lazy and want on the dole. They said after 6 months you either take our government schemed job or get thrown off. They paid me 70 pence an hour with my 35 quid a week dole money. I loved it as I was outside.

It took me over 20 years to replicate the wage of one of my first jobs

 

[mrtwiceaseason]

Good old YTS scheme £23:50 PW :+)

 

[Crouchinho]

Good old YTS scheme £23:50 PW :+)

I remember that scam. They'd promise you a job at the end of if then refuse. How can the government had let people work for less than 25 quid for 30-40 hours work. Part of the reason I didn't pay taxes for almost a decade

 

[The Pink Panther]

1979
Goods inwards assistant
T N Robinson on Daw Bank
£1500.00 PA or £28.85 per week for a 42 and a half hour week, so 68.5p per hour

We were paid monthly and the first few months I was taking home about £115 a month. Then the tax kicked in and it reduced to £106.
That £9 difference was two nights out

 

[stony]

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.

In retrospect it was, but you don't appreciate it at the time. Once they'd trained me to put the springs, canvas and foam onto a bare frame, they put me on piecework and I was earning about £100 a week. I got too far ahead and the floor was full of foamed up frames waiting for the upholsters to finish, so they stuck me back on £30 a week and give me menial shit to do. I saw my arse and packed in. I was only 16 and didn't know my arse from my elbow, but it was a huge mistake to make and one which I regretted for years later.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

McJob

 

[Hoghead]

1978 trainee quantity surveyor at Tozer Gallagher & Pissheads based in Sunlight House. £1,125 pa or £21.63 pw for 37.5 hour week. When I first started there seemed to be a leaving do every month on Friday lunchtime, no work done that afternoon!
Still got all my payslips.

 

[Ancient Citizen]

£6, 2/6d per week, trainee travel agent, you needed GCE's in those days.
Came out with about a fiver, £2 10 shillings to me mum, pissed the rest up the wall,
and loved every minute.

 

[grunge]

people need to say the year too!.

1st job was a saturday job in Boots as a couple of quid an hour when I was 13, then in 95 was my 1st proper full time job testing games for Sony on £8kpa

 

[manctheknife]

1978 trainee quantity surveyor at Tozer Gallagher & Pissheads based in Sunlight House. £1,125 pa or £21.63 pw for 37.5 hour week. When I first started there seemed to be a leaving do every month on Friday lunchtime, no work done that afternoon!
Still got all my payslips.

I was in Sunlight House then...BDP.
Grapes on the ground floor was busy then.....