How much where you paid for your first job

I was paid £3 a week in 1956.

To day would be better off not working.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/mone...ion-calculator

Re: How much where you paid for your first job

I think it was £33.33 in 1979. It was about half what my mates were earning. I remember blowing the whole lot on a pair of baseball boots.

Re: How much where you paid for your first job

Can't remember, but using that calculator, about £30.00 a week

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You were luck LD, I could only afford one.

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1960. £3.10shillings (£3.50) Just out of school.

My first job was assembling a machine that sealed the wrapper of a sliced loaf.

Re: How much where you paid for your first job

in 1979 i was paid £24 a week that according to the inflation calculator is £115 a week nowadays.

i was making cardboard shoe boxes then

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Re: How much where you paid for your first job

A strange sum. It was £3-3s-3d in 1960.

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My first job was helping manufacture wood and asbestos garages for the princely sum of £2 .10s a week in 1956. Fired 6months later due, (as the boss said) , to the Suez crisis. More I think due to my own incompetence.

Re: How much where you paid for your first job

I started work in banking in 1968, and I think the salary was around £39 per month after paying tax & NI.