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Post by GrizzlyShrew on Apr 8, 2024 12:25:05 GMT 1
For me it was £27 and something pence per week. That was take home after tax and deductions. Think it was about £35 before deductions. I paid £10 to mum for keep and had the rest to fritter on women and drink and in a few months time running a car.
It was in September 1976 at GKN Sankeys which was the major employer in the Telford area as an office trainee.
Paid in cash in a little brown wages envelope with the important details hand written on the packet that you collected from the training office. I'm guessing the whole 5-6,000 staff were all paid in a similar way, a huge undertaking for the wages department every week.
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Post by belfastshrew on Apr 8, 2024 13:25:44 GMT 1
50p per car at the carwash
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Post by davewill on Apr 8, 2024 13:44:41 GMT 1
For me it was £27 and something pence per week. That was take home after tax and deductions. Think it was about £35 before deductions. I paid £10 to mum for keep and had the rest to fritter on women and drink and in a few months time running a car. It was in September 1976 at GKN Sankeys which was the major employer in the Telford area as an office trainee. Paid in cash in a little brown wages envelope with the important details hand written on the packet that you collected from the training office. I'm guessing the whole 5-6,000 staff were all paid in a similar way, a huge undertaking for the wages department every week. Ahh now dont forget that i left WGS in 1975, twelve months before you... Straight into Wolverhampton Borough Council at 16 (in Treasurers Dept) on £1,260 per year (or £23 per week gross) Used to catch the train from Oakengates to Wolvo, rail ticket at £4.50 per week Strange fact, is that Johnny Hancocks (ex Wolves, England) used to catch the same train at Oakengates, on his way to work at RAF Cosford..
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Post by ssshrew on Apr 8, 2024 13:47:15 GMT 1
625 pa
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Post by davycrockett on Apr 8, 2024 13:55:49 GMT 1
13 shilling a week. Paper round from The Bee Hive.
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Post by wakemanender on Apr 8, 2024 14:16:33 GMT 1
£16 a week selling newspapers and magazines at WH Smith on Castle Gates which when I left school and started work was completely open fronted and then doors from that open section led into the warm main store where the rest of the staff worked. Cant think that many on this board would remember the store as it was at that time.
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Post by hectord0g137 on Apr 8, 2024 14:34:50 GMT 1
£12.50 a fortnight in the forces, I had more in my pocket as a schoolkid with my Saturday job and delivering papers 6 days a week. I did have accommodation and food taken before payment though
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Post by ackeyshrew on Apr 8, 2024 14:42:02 GMT 1
£6 a week at 13 delivering around 20 Shropshire Stars a night in my village around 1984. Thought I’d won the lottery. Then at 15 I moved into bigger things, £1 an hour on a horrible battery hen farm packing eggs and cleaning out the dead chickens. Upped to £1.50 on Christmas Day though
First proper job, 6k a year as a Budget Clerk at Fruit of the Loom, that giant of high end fashion in 1990
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Post by venceremos on Apr 8, 2024 15:17:46 GMT 1
50p a drill weeding tiny lettuce seedlings on a farm in Cheshire - bloody long drills they were too, in blistering sun with no shade.
First weekly job was £20 potato picking, with a bit of straw bale stacking and helping move calves along the lanes to new pasture (narrowly avoiding a major golf club incident) during summer holidays. Great fun and I got to nick some lovely spuds to take home to mum each week.
First full time job was £34 a week at Virgin Records in Southampton, plus 25% staff discount or any album on the Virgin label for £1.25 (a regularly priced album was about £4 at the time). Loved that job and kept it on part time throughout my time at university. Was close to taking a shop manager's job after university but didn't fancy moving to Nottingham.
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Post by chirkshrew on Apr 8, 2024 16:22:08 GMT 1
55p an hour at print and packaging company in Llangollen...1976!!!!
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Post by venceremos on Apr 8, 2024 16:30:55 GMT 1
50p per car at the carwash Let me tell ya, it's always cool And the boss don't mind sometimes if you act a foolAt the car washWorkin' at the car wash, yeahI hope you sang this as you washed.
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Post by tarporleyblue on Apr 8, 2024 16:53:41 GMT 1
Now you're asking!
I first had a summer job when I was 15 working in the shop at the Talyllyn Railway. I used to get a brown envelope every so often from one of the directors with a tenner or two. It was a very informal arrangement.
At one point I used to man the little shop stand at Dolgoch station, what a great place to work, especially on a lovely summer's day.
When I was 17 my dad got me a summer job working at the putting green in Tywyn, that was with Merioneth District Council, I think I was on about £20 a week. That was an enjoyable time too, out in the fresh air most of the time.
My first full time job in 1978 was with the Welsh Office Agricultural Department in Aberystwyth. It was a clerical role and I think I was paid about £35 per week plus I was getting a further payment from the Welsh Development Agency? because of having to move from a rural location to find work. I'm not sure but I think that monthly payment was for 2 years?
A bonus as well was that because I was only 18, I also used to get weekly lunch vouchers to use in the canteen. We used to save some of them up and have a 3 course meal mid week!
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Post by armchairfan on Apr 8, 2024 17:02:50 GMT 1
£480 pa, but increased to 520 pa before my first pay-day, due to an error by my employer.
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Post by cmonsalop on Apr 8, 2024 17:12:49 GMT 1
£40 per week in 1978. Still with the same organisation, not sure my pay’s worth much more today!
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Post by Stowmarket Shrew on Apr 8, 2024 17:15:40 GMT 1
Ha, early 90's I used to earn £3 a week delivering the Mid Week Chronicle on a Wednesday and £7 delivering the Admag on a Thursday. Hated the Admag as it had dozens of leaflets but I did get paid 1p each for those and I well remember some McDonald's scratch cards I 'forgot' to deliver one time, they kept me in free food for months 😁
I could get in to the Meadow for £2 in those days so the rest went on Shoot and Zzap 64 magazines, plus games for my Commodore 64 before I upgraded to an Amiga.
My first proper job, in 2000, paid £15,500. Remember thinking I'd be able to live like a king. I'm still waiting.
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Post by staffordshrew on Apr 8, 2024 17:42:25 GMT 1
Ha, early 90's I used to earn £3 a week delivering the Mid Week Chronicle on a Wednesday and £7 delivering the Admag on a Thursday. Hated the Admag as it had dozens of leaflets but I did get paid 1p each for those and I well remember some McDonald's scratch cards I 'forgot' to deliver one time, they kept me in free food for months 😁 I could get in to the Meadow for £2 in those days so the rest went on Shoot and Zzap 64 magazines, plus games for my Commodore 64 before I upgraded to an Amiga. My first proper job, in 2000, paid £15,500. Remember thinking I'd be able to live like a king. I'm still waiting. I remember the admag. I know someone who's daughter delivered the admag, but it wasn't long before her dad did it in the company car Also, out on a walk in another location, I noticed a good few week's admags dumped in a ditch...
I used to help my mate deliver the Shropshire Star, taking over when he was ill or away. I did it Christmas time and he insisted I kept all the tips! First job, an apprentice on £9 50 a week, but there were loads of rises then so the next week it was £10.23. Then there was occasionally "subsistence" for working on location - that was more than the wages
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Post by wakemanender on Apr 8, 2024 18:05:22 GMT 1
My wife was distribution manager for the Admag for many years. She lost a lot of sleep over those years wondering who had been ditching Admags and leaflets in ditches. She is now thanks to this thread a step nearer tracing the culprits. Good news is that she is very unlikely to want to travel to Stowmarket or Stafford to carry out fingerprinting at her age but good that the mystery has been solved in her lifetime. Thanks chaps. Makes my life easier.
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Post by davycrockett on Apr 8, 2024 18:06:06 GMT 1
£16 a week selling newspapers and magazines at WH Smith on Castle Gates which when I left school and started work was completely open fronted and then doors from that open section led into the warm main store where the rest of the staff worked. Cant think that many on this board would remember the store as it was at that time. I can wasn’t Halfords on the other corner? Also the CooP opposite next to Wildings oh and Standish Taylor behind……
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Post by wakemanender on Apr 8, 2024 18:10:12 GMT 1
£16 a week selling newspapers and magazines at WH Smith on Castle Gates which when I left school and started work was completely open fronted and then doors from that open section led into the warm main store where the rest of the staff worked. Cant think that many on this board would remember the store as it was at that time. I can wasn’t Halfords on the other corner? Also the CooP opposite next to Wildings oh and Standish Taylor behind……
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Post by wakemanender on Apr 8, 2024 18:10:23 GMT 1
£16 a week selling newspapers and magazines at WH Smith on Castle Gates which when I left school and started work was completely open fronted and then doors from that open section led into the warm main store where the rest of the staff worked. Cant think that many on this board would remember the store as it was at that time. I can wasn’t Halfords on the other corner? Also the CooP opposite next to Wildings oh and Standish Taylor behind……
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Post by wakemanender on Apr 8, 2024 18:15:06 GMT 1
Halfords was next door to WHSmith and Wildings was across the road. Remember it well. Had a crush on girl who worked at Halfords. Many many years later and up until quite recently she was still working for them at Meole retail park. Must have worked for them for nearly 50yrs.
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Post by venceremos on Apr 8, 2024 18:18:12 GMT 1
I first had a summer job when I was 15 working in the shop at the Talyllyn Railway. I used to get a brown envelope every so often from one of the directors with a tenner or two. It was a very informal arrangement. The sort of remuneration system that sustained the "amateurs" of Welsh rugby union for many years!
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Post by staffordshrew on Apr 8, 2024 18:40:35 GMT 1
Halfords was next door to WHSmith and Wildings was across the road. Remember it well. Had a crush on girl who worked at Halfords. Many many years later and up until quite recently she was still working for them at Meole retail park. Must have worked for them for nearly 50yrs. Thing is, is she still a looker? A Glamourous Gran?
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Post by The Shropshire Tenor on Apr 8, 2024 19:24:49 GMT 1
This brings back so many memories, I had about 10 full and part time jobs before settling down in my mid 20's and staying in one job for over 30 years.
One thing that sticks in my mind to illustrate how times have changed is that Mrs ST and I bought our first house, a 2 bed terrace with big gardens, in 1971 when I was earning £1k gross p.a., she was at Uni and not earning. It cost £2.2k and we got a £2k mortgage from the local council.
That house would be about £450k now which explains why our grandchildren can't afford to live around here even with them and their partners in professional occupations.
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Post by albionshrew on Apr 8, 2024 19:59:46 GMT 1
In 1972 aged 15 I left school and earned £6.50 per week as one of the back room staff in Williams furniture store in that shopping centre by the former(?) bus depot. A friend still at school got more in pocket money! Rubbish job. Did me good though as it woke me up to the value of education and getting some qualifications. I can’t believe that it was so easy to leave school back then. (Harlescott Grange Secondary Modern School)
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Post by tarporleyblue on Apr 8, 2024 20:00:59 GMT 1
I first had a summer job when I was 15 working in the shop at the Talyllyn Railway. I used to get a brown envelope every so often from one of the directors with a tenner or two. It was a very informal arrangement. The sort of remuneration system that sustained the "amateurs" of Welsh rugby union for many years! You never really knew when you would get the brown envelope. I would be working at the pop up shop at Dolgoch station when a down train would stop and the driver (who happened to be a director of the railway) would wave me over and hand me over the envelope. I used to look forward to those days!
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Post by tarporleyblue on Apr 8, 2024 20:03:54 GMT 1
I first had a summer job when I was 15 working in the shop at the Talyllyn Railway. I used to get a brown envelope every so often from one of the directors with a tenner or two. It was a very informal arrangement. The sort of remuneration system that sustained the "amateurs" of Welsh rugby union for many years! and some of the amateurs who used to play for my local Mid Wales league team! the brown envelopes would be passed around in the pub after the game. It was supposed to be for the petrol expenses but there was always a few more quid included as well.
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Post by edgmond on Apr 8, 2024 20:09:51 GMT 1
£1.97 a week for two evenings after school in Tesco. I think it was 25p an hour. 3p was deducted from the gross figure for National Insurance!
We often had to work longer hours for no extra money as we weren’t allowed to leave until all the shelves were full for the morning.
It did give me enough money to buy an album most weeks (early 70s, just after decimalisation).
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Post by dewsburyshrew on Apr 8, 2024 20:21:50 GMT 1
I did the Xmas post as a 6th former. Only a couple of weeks but quite well paid. You had to work for it though. Two big bags stuffed with letters and cards, blocks of flats 4 or 5 stories high with no lifts. The following summer I worked for 2 or 3 months for the Co-op at their greenhouses in Roden growing tomatoes and cucumbers. I then became a Civil servant taking home £28 a month, of which nine pounds went to Mum. I was promoted in 1971, moved to Leeds on a princely wage of £720 pa.
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Post by townfaninnantwich on Apr 9, 2024 10:24:30 GMT 1
£23.50 YTS Making gates and oil drums in Wem then the same at shrewsbury tec bricklaying. But first proper job was at 17 got £50 a week thought i was rich at the time.
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