First Ever Wage Packet.

[leigh white]

Some bloke posted on a local FB site about wages when you left school, I recall getting £ 3-19s-6p in April 69, fuck me, I could go watching Bolton anywhere with that amount at the time.

[only1swanny]

£2.11 an hour at Glynn Webb, worked 12 hours a week, 3 hours on 2 nights and then 6 hours on a Sunday. 

 

Absolute mind numbing, walking around straightening wallpaper and displays, hated it!

[Burndens Bogs]

I got about £35 for my first weeks wage back in 1976 & my mam nabbed a tenner of that for my“keeps” as they used to call it. I seem remember it was about 30p a pint at that time. I moved jobs in 1977 and was earning around £100 a week, i still have the ticket stub from 1978 at Old Trafford  when Frankie Worthy ruined them and the ticket price was £1, you could have a really nice time as a kid on £100 a week back then.

Edited November 26, 2020 by Burndens Bogs

[leigh white]

Recall paying 10p a pint in 73, had a trip to London village in 74 for a match and nearly had a stroke when charged 75p for a round of three. ☺️

[bolty58]

Close to a fiver in my hand after the first week of my apprenticeship at Walmsleys Training School bottom of Union Road. Thought I was loaded.

[gonzo]

First full time job was an apprentice tiler. £100 a week and worked 3 nights at the squirrel pub.

Managed to watch Bolton all over country and go out on piss every night. 

Looking back it was an actual miracle. 

[Casino]

33 minutes ago, Mr Grey said:

1982, YT fucking S, 25 dabs!!

I got 26.50 as my bus fares were paid

Then they took me on, 57.07 a week at the council

Shouldve stayed there, in hindsight

Tossing it off and getting paid for 45 years...ah, the life of the public sector employee

[Sweep]

41 minutes ago, Mr Grey said:

1982, YT fucking S, 25 dabs!!

YTS here as well at HB Electronics in 1989.

£29.50 per week 😁

[MickyD]

Horwich Loco Works, £17.00 in August 78.

[Not in Crawley]

80 quid a week in 2000 at The Green Room in Manchester after graduation. First full time job £12,000 a year at The Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury. £200 a month rent with all bills. Felt loaded 😄

[Winchester White]

First full time job I was on £10,500 PA back in 98. Think I took home a little under £700 a month.

[Spider]

Earning £15 on a Saturday morning at a town centre shop.

Got paid at 12.30, and that was enough to get me on the paddock (£3.30) and about 5 pints in Ben Topps or the Alma.

The rest I scrounged off my mum if it was an away day localish.

 

[athywhite1958]

Apprentice fitter/turner at Staveleys in Athy 1975 £13.00 a week, 

[Rudy]

Pot collector at the Beaumont arms,£20 a week

Then Barman at £50 a week when I was old enough 

[Zico]

first job I had was after leaving school in 93

it was a paper factory in horwich who employed kids on cheap labour and flouted all h&s laws going

was about 95p an hour, lasted about 3 days, but enough to afford a new Bolton top

first proper job was Tesco in Horwich, October 93

£2.56 an hour

by the time I left in 95 was on £4.10, and doing night shifts Sat night so got double on the Sunday - £8.10 an hour felt like I'd won the lottery, plus it meant I could go to the match Sat afternoon

[freds dad]

£32 a week at Manders in Kearsley and 3 nights a week behind the bar at Farnworth Vets.

We used to walk across the Moss to the Vulcan on Walkden Road where a pint of Boddies was 25p and we walked up to the Halfway House were it was 24p. A night out for less than £2 including some chips on the way home. 

[MickyD]

1 hour ago, Rudy said:

Pot collector at the Beaumont arms,£20 a week

Then Barman at £50 a week when I was old enough 

Who managed it? We used to go in for all nighters on the odd occasion when Steve Oddy ran it.

[Rudy]

50 minutes ago, MickyD said:

Who managed it? We used to go in for all nighters on the odd occasion when Steve Oddy ran it.

Sarah and Anne think Mary was the cook when I was there, then Anne left. 
Had a few all nighters in there on a Saturday night

[ErnestTurnip]

Think mine was £48 for 60 hours a week labouring, seems crazy but could still go out 5/6 nights on that.

[fatolive]

£26.50 on the YTS 

to their credit , I was also paid £18 directly by the company for working on Saturday mornings which felt like I was loaded on pay days the weeks I’d done a Saturday 
worked on Orlando bridge and the yard backed on to the footbridge over the lines , some good secure vantage points watching the going’s on on there as a young lad 

[Biggish Dave]

First p/t job was £3/hr on a petrol filling station. First full time job was £4500p.a which works out at £2.47/hour

[burnden]

39 minutes ago, fatolive said:

£26.50 on the YTS 

This ^    Gave my Mam a tenner , match and ale with the rest

[Rudy]

1 hour ago, Mr Grey said:

My old gaff, Sunday League manager 1998 to 2008ish, 10 year stint won fuck all 😁

You had an unbelievable right winger who played for you, wonder what happened to him 😁

[radcliffe white]

2 hours ago, Mr Grey said:

My old gaff, Sunday League manager 1998 to 2008ish, 10 year stint won fuck all 😁

Some record that mate 

[MancWanderer]

2 hours ago, Biggish Dave said:

First p/t job was £3/hr on a petrol filling station. First full time job was £4500p.a which works out at £2.47/hour

Christ I got £5 for working 8.30-6.00 filling cars with petrol on a Saturday