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Post by The Shropshire Tenor on Apr 9, 2024 10:59:37 GMT 1
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. We called it ‘boot money’ because the brown envelope was literally left in our boots. I can’t remember the name of the league but we played clubs in Worcestershire. Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire.
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Post by ProudSalopian on Apr 9, 2024 11:17:17 GMT 1
A few various one spring to mine
A paper-round that paid £25 a week (in 1997), this was a very well paid paper-round by other standards but was because it was classed as private and I had to collect money. I don't believe these are allowed nowadays
My first casual work, agency work doing order picking at the old Safeway factory on Featherbed Lane at £5.25 an hour, this would have been around 1998/199 when I left school and was going to college. This was considered a very good hourly rate as most mates were working in supermarkets at about half the rate.
My first permanent contract at Windsor Life (in Telford) in 2000 at £180 a week which for an 18 year old, I thought it was fantastic money.
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Post by shroppygold on Apr 9, 2024 11:32:37 GMT 1
100 quid a week at the Bridgwater arms. I was 16 pot washing for 15 hours a week
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Post by gainsparkshrew on Apr 9, 2024 15:36:17 GMT 1
£18 per week working for the Midland Bank ( now HSBC) back in 1972
I left after 12 months as the men were all middle aged and ultra conservative while the woman were completely the other way! I suffered reverse sexism as apparently I was "young fresh meat"... genuinely if walls could talk 😉🙄
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Post by aghabullogueshrew on Apr 9, 2024 16:35:34 GMT 1
I don’t know why but I can’t remember my weekly take home pay or my hourly rate, but I do remember I was getting paid £8,088 PA working for the Manpower Services Commission (remember them)! Damn, I just remembered I signed the Official Secrets Act and I can now be arrested for divulging confidential information! Paraguay here I come!
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Post by Dan F on Apr 10, 2024 15:02:49 GMT 1
Think mine was £3.08ph at Morrisons in early 1996.
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Post by jamo on Apr 10, 2024 16:58:01 GMT 1
Mid 70’s, first job on leaving school was at Chukie Chickens, Craven Arms. I started on £31 .00 a week which was ridiculous money for a 16 year old, by comparison my mate started an apprenticeship at EB Smiths in Frankwell at the same time and he was on £3.00 a week.
I bought his beer for about 2 years! Which I still remind him of today
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Post by jacksdad on Apr 10, 2024 17:49:49 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) My grandad was the school caretaker at Harlescott Grange School back then.....Thomas Davies. I don't know the exact dates but he would have been there from the mid 60's right through to the end of the 70's. He and my gran lived on site in one of the bungalows. I have very fond memories of staying with them and helping my grandad out around the school, I could have only been 6 or 7 at the time.
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Post by jacksdad on Apr 10, 2024 17:59:33 GMT 1
And back on topic....my first full time job was working in the County Surveyors Office at Buckinghamshire County Council earning the princely sum of £2,850 gross per annum in 1985.
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