what was your first package

£25.00 per week Youth Opportunity Program (YOP) for a 37 hour week in 1987 at Sefton Council. I was one of those yoofs that needed an opportunity :D It did lead to a permanent position with Sefton where I stayed for almost 5 years.
 
I think it was about £16/week Apprentice electrician British Steel. £5 to mum but in return got pack up and bus fare. Initial training was at a training centre down Dead Man's Hole Lane at Ickles. I wonder where they come up with these street names? :)
In fact, that would be a good post if not done before.

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£6.00 Apprentice welder 69
 
£5 per week as apprentice fitter coal board 1965, also the day I signed on at Florence Colliery there was an explosion underground.

John

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1959 apprenticed £1-19 shillings, I think I paid 10 shillings a week fares on the Central Line. If I made a phone call at work it always showed up as a 4p deduction on my wage packet. Had to work in the evenings for extra money.
Not the "Good Old Days " for me
Solly
 
£2.2/6 a week 7 days on dad's farm 5.30 mornings till when ever gave mum £1 00 for keep 1962. Good old days wish I could go back knowing what I know now.
 
£6.50 Per wk 1971.starting at 4a.m. 2ml walk into work at the bakery,all weathers.bloody young uns today don't know their born:LOL:(y)
Brian & Jo
 
cruiser said:
some one has told me their first wage package. £1.000. and when I told them what mine was. all of £2.6 shillings and 6p. for a 45 hour week. they laughed. I did try to explain that you could take a girl out with 2 shillings and 6p.
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£3 12shillings 6cart wheels as a 17yrs 8months soldier in Adult service . If @Tootles comes on he'll be talking Denarius as he served with Hadrian on the border with the Picts/Jocks, take your pick.(y)
 
£4/15 bob a week for 40 + Saturday morning 1969
2/3 a hour as a apprentice fitter on heavy haulage
By time I had paid board and lodge to my mum and bus fares
I ended up with about 15 Bob to spend on me
Mind you it did set me up for life and I did end up earning more than most but had to work away from home for months on end
 
£4.00 a week and a wrap up. Butchers lad.

4 GALLONS of petrol and 20 fags for a quid!!
 
Bobpalt said:
£50 a month as a "trainee manager" at Zurich Insurance. I got a 50p a week increase soon after when I got my A level results, and another £200 a year when I was 21 and qualified as an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute. I would like to think that was ok for those days, but it was crap even then.
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When was that Bob? I started at Sun Alliance in April 1967 and got a rise from being an (un) Civil Servant from roughly £6.15s a week to roughly £8 5s. First actual month (the month less a couple of days) was just over £32 Gross, because of course I was on an Emergency tax code. Never offered me CII training, I was after all a girl ! - so of course I'd leave and have babies. In point of fact I never got babies until Tim was 2 in 1998 when I also got his 7yo sister - my second husband having 2 adult daughters! Since then we've had 5 more of that generation and one of the next, from the 7yo LOL

Lack of CII Exams didn't hamper my career in the industry though. Did you stay in insurance?

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Oh fags were 4s and something, No 6 were 3s 10d, but I smoked Gold Leaf. petrol was 3/6 a gallon.
 
Started work at bata shoe factory 1967
Aged 16 after a year at college due to
Dad coming out of the forces
Pending a move

Started at £3.50 a week silk screen apprentice
Fell out with the manager of print shop
Moved to factory floor producing mothercare children's shoes
Pay went up to £8.00 a week ( factory work didn't suit me )
Got a n apprenticeship with the gas board pay dropped to £5.00 a week

Can't of been bad bought up two kids bought and paid for our house

Lot of my friends laughed at my gas pay
But mine came every week not occasionally
 
sedge said:
When was that Bob?

Lack of CII Exams didn't hamper my career in the industry though. Did you stay in insurance?
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July 1972. Then did 40 years straight in insurance. After leaving Zurich went in to loss adjusting with McLarens (I think we have something in common there?), Miller Fisher and Cunninghams . Ran my own adjusting company for a while and ended up the last 8 years managing Dyno-Rod's insurance claim handling service. Took early retirement in 2012 after British Gas (who own Dyno) made my life an utter misery.
 
Oh my goodness, you know you are becoming an old fart when competitions open up in front of you and you think you might have a chance of winning.

I started out on £3/6/5 and took home £2/19/7. I was an apprentice at Walmsleys of Bury in Bolton at the training school. For some daft reason they thought I might make an apprentice fitter (bless). When we got our first weeks' wages the painters admired the pound notes of my friend Keith. They ran up the trestle with their paint brushes and painted his two pounds to the ceiling and then took their trestles away.

He was absolutely devastated, cried his eyes out and was completely inconsolable. Little did he know that all they had done was to paint two blank pieces of paper to the ceiling just to put the ebby jeebies up him.

Beer was one and threepence per pint and I also had a part time job. I collected Littlewoods football pools from homes on a Friday night. I remember the night when Kennedy got shot. He was shot, dead, not dead, dead again, and finally definitely very dead.

I won't be entering any competitions for getting into girls' knickers, I was a slow starter, picked up a bit in later life, but definitely not the first out of the starting blocks.

I'm rambling I know. I wrote all this stuff down in "When can it do Errands". Just in case you are wondering how well do autobiographies sell on Kindle - They don't.
 
You're all youngsters!
£2 for 44hr 5 1/2 day week less 5/5 Nat Ins that leaves £1 14s 7d 1958

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£6.80 as an apprentice electrician in 1972
 
about £5 per week baker/confectioner apprentice 1961 Arthur Davy & Sons Sheffield, 6am start 4pm finish except Wednesdays Sheffield Polytech - 6am work start then Poly' 9am till 9pm - long, long days. Would be unheard of now. Also managed to squeeze in 2 evenings cake decorating and the rest of the week evenings body building at the Raven Barbell club on Fitzwilliam Street. Just a fat old git now:rolleyes:
 
cruiser said:
some one has told me their first wage package. £1.000. and when I told them what mine was. all of £2.6 shillings and 6p. for a 45 hour week. they laughed. I did try to explain that you could take a girl out with 2 shillings and 6p.
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This is a cracking thread Cruiser as all us gerris meander down memory lane. :DExcellent!(y)
 
vin0114 said:
about £5 per week baker/confectioner apprentice 1961 Arthur Davy & Sons Sheffield, 6am start 4pm finish except Wednesdays Sheffield Polytech - 6am work start then Poly' 9am till 9pm - long, long days. Would be unheard of now. Also managed to squeeze in 2 evenings cake decorating and the rest of the week evenings body building at the Raven Barbell club on Fitzwilliam Street. Just a fat old git now:rolleyes:
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Vin, If you still retain the skills highlighted, lets meet, I'll buy the beer you make the sweets!:D
 
bigtree said:
£6.80 as an apprentice electrician in 1972
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all right for some...I was on £6.50 when I started as an electrical apprentice in London in 1969? :)

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