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How much was your salary when you got your first job .
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First Saturday job saw me getting the grand total of £1.95 per hour. Scary! Back in 1995 that was still only about 2/3 of a pint.
And my first salaried job was an evolution of that in about 1996, earning the princely sum of £8,000pa. I thought I was doing quite well for a fuckwit with no exams, quals or skills!! |
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Mine was a whopping £1.75 an hour in 1989 at 16 as a go fetch and do what i say boy for a machine opo.
Stayed there 23yrs...Bottom to the bit below the top and thought feck this, Ill go do my own thing and never looked back..
Happy days though those early years. Wish could nip back now and again.. |
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over a year ago
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£2.69 an hour during my apprenticeship.
Before that, I was working at my parent's corner shop growing up where according to my Dad, I was being paid in food, a house, and electricity  |
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First proper job- Took a year out of uni and worked for a charity. Think it was 18k a year and I thought I was rolling in it
I did have a cash in hand Job at sixth form working in a restaurant but I can’t remember how much I earned. Like £600 a month I think. Plus tips. |
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"First proper job- Took a year out of uni and worked for a charity. Think it was 18k a year and I thought I was rolling in it
I did have a cash in hand Job at sixth form working in a restaurant but I can’t remember how much I earned. Like £600 a month I think. Plus tips. "
£600?!?! I barely earned that for my first PROPER proper job, when I worked 9-5 Mon to Fri in a laboratory
My £2.80 p/h at Matalan was when I was at sixth form and was lucky to earn £100 a month  |
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"First proper job- Took a year out of uni and worked for a charity. Think it was 18k a year and I thought I was rolling in it
I did have a cash in hand Job at sixth form working in a restaurant but I can’t remember how much I earned. Like £600 a month I think. Plus tips.
£600?!?! I barely earned that for my first PROPER proper job, when I worked 9-5 Mon to Fri in a laboratory
My £2.80 p/h at Matalan was when I was at sixth form and was lucky to earn £100 a month "
Matalan was my first too! Loved it |
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"First proper job- Took a year out of uni and worked for a charity. Think it was 18k a year and I thought I was rolling in it
I did have a cash in hand Job at sixth form working in a restaurant but I can’t remember how much I earned. Like £600 a month I think. Plus tips.
£600?!?! I barely earned that for my first PROPER proper job, when I worked 9-5 Mon to Fri in a laboratory
My £2.80 p/h at Matalan was when I was at sixth form and was lucky to earn £100 a month "
I’m young init. Inflation. Working in London. All that jazz
I worked quite a few nights shifts after school and weekends. |
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Started in 1982 on a WEEP scheme at the glorious sum of £25 a week.
Was offered an apprenticeship by the boss and took it.
That was the start of a great career and could take home £300 per week back in 1983 aged 19. |
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"2.67 an hour, this would have been 1991, supermarket gig while still at school. And I absolutely loved it!"
When you look at it as to what wages an hour are now it's quite shocking how little they have increased..
Mine was £5 an hour at a supermarket in 1990. |
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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago
Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands |
"5p a week chimmney sweep
Was it tuppence for a bag of breadcrumbs to feed the pigeons?  "
It was also tuppence for a bag of batter bits at the local Chippy |
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£3.50 per week delivering the local paper, hundreds used to turn up on a Wednesday night in 1978 aged 13. Then at 15 £1 an hour working with severly dementia nursing home residents whilst at school - illegal now, no training and I was only 15. Ms |
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1980 - carpentry apprenticeship. 49p per hour.
Obviously, my boss was reluctant to break through the magical 50p barrier!
My first weeks wages, I bought a pair of levi's on the way home. - £3.50! |
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£42 a week. I can still see the blue compliment slip with the astonishing figure of £2,200 p.a. on it!
I'd never seen such a huge amount of money associated with me, and I felt like I'd suddenly become rich in November 1979. |
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By *viatrixWoman
over a year ago
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My very first job was doing home surveys for the 1990 census… 3 days work and I was paid $150 US dollars. Not bad! 
Next job was a weekend job in Dunkin’ Donuts in 1993. Late shift, 3pm-11pm, got paid 50 pesos (£2) for the weekend. We made up for it by eating countless donuts and munchkins |
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ten shillings (roughly about 50p) to waitress a wedding caterer
friday night was cook the pastries and chicken wings and sausages on cocktail sticks etc and load the van with everything
saturday was lay the buffet up at the venue, attend the do, and clear away after it was all over
sunday was empty the van and wash the dishes.
My Mum my self and my cousin all did it.
All on the same terrible rate of pay. |
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By *el65Man
over a year ago
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1981 started in a YOP scheme £23.50 after six months got an apprenticeship and wages flew up to £25 lol down side was I had 3part time jobs at school and made more lol had to take a pay cut to work full time  |
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1992. £30 a week for 38 hours on the yts as a apprentice car mechanic. S*%ve labour even then and I had to get 2 buses a day out of that. Someone did say to me you'll never have as much money in your life to which I sniffed at. Never a truer word said. |
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