Just been going through lots of old tax stuff and I found my 3rd ever P60 (so for my second full year of employment).

Annual Salary – £3,176 🙂

Rich bastard.

£1.54 per hour in my first job – well after yours, grandad 😀

1.53 an hour for me. Earned 103 quid a week too. But that was with overtime too, at 1.78 an hour.

That figure of mine included 20% shift allowance.

I look forward to your next post office trip adn a “sending it” thread 😀

God that makes me feel old.

£53 my first paypacket, take home £36

We shouldn’t mock- £3,176 was a very tidy sum in 1927.

We shouldn’t mock- £3,176 was a very tidy sum in 1927.

😆

LOL @ LsD

I use the beer index.
In my first Saturday job aged 16 at M&S I earned £13 a day and a pint of bitter was 28p = 46 pints for a day’s work.
A pint is now £2.80 so judging by my current salary I have actually gone backwards on the career ladder. 🙁

My first job I earned £26 a week ( calculates frantically) I don’t think there was holiday pay but that £1352 a year. Beer was 28 p a pint so a days wages ( taptaptaptap) 18 pints a days work.

Pint £2.80 nick? try £3.50 in my local. (taptaptap) New job starts monday and gets me around 30 pints for a days work

my first job paid £13K

can I do a vod index? about £34 a day, can buy 3

You lot were well off! My 1st weeks pay (Durham Rural District Council. apprentice vehicle/plant fitter, 1972)
£7.26.

If I’d stayed there I’d be retired by now, with over 40 years in.

First wage as an apprentice telephone engineer in 1969 was 7 guineas{£7.35) beer index 1 pint 2/6 (12.5p)gave you a gallon per pound. Petrol was cheaper at three gallon per pound, sounds cheap but it was still frickin expensive

My first job was £2.50 an hr, I’m quite impressed with that, it was only 14 years ago 🙂

My first pay as an apprentice was £5.2/6pence
I also worked on a farm during weekends, nights and holidays and earned the adult wage, same as my dad, uncle and grand father of £14 and a few pennies 😆
When I moved to my current employment in `78 working in a factory my wage rise was an instant £20 + ot on a Tues, Thurs and often a Sat morning. Felt like a millionaire ❗

My first job, straight out of art college 19 years ago, paid £14/hr to teach pottery in a prison. (That’d be almost £25/hr today). And despite it being a role that required home office clearance I was given the job by someone I bumped into in a pub because she wanted to get into my pants. I’d never thrown a pot in my life so just had to busk it. After about 6months we got privatised and the rate dropped to £10, and then the new private contract holder screwed everything up and had to lay pretty much everyone off. Next job paid £3 per hour, and have slowly been scrabbling my way back ever since.

I’ve been self employed pretty much ever since with only a handful of flirtations with salaried and hourly / day rated work. But even during a spell as an Executive Director my hourly rate didn’t even quite reach the amount my first wage was cut to, even without inflation adjustments.

However, just this last month, after nearly two decades, I’ve picked up a contract that just eclipses the hourly rate of that first job!, shame its only two days a week for 8 weeks otherwise I’d be forced to whine on here about how nobody understands how difficult it is to be rich.