How much was in your first wage packet?

[Gerty Gumdrop]

I saw a post by Pete about wages, so as a different topic I just wondered how much you got on your first wage packet?  In fact what was your first job?

My first wage was £3 7s 6d - or in decimal dosh £3.35.  I was a junior clerk/telephonist at a little firm down Foundry Street on Whittington Moor.  The office was old fashioned even back in 1965 and had a coal fire in the corner 

[Pete]

My first wage packet after leaving school was £5.00. I was apprenticed to Robinson & Son as a litho printer.

[Our_Lass]

£16, Pru Smiths knicker factory in Bolsover. Aged 16. Worked there for six months then moved to Coalite mail room. Wages rose to £21, good money in those days 

[Fly]

YTS at Ryland works, Newbold Rd. £25 in 1983
Started at the NCB training ground late 83, wages doubled. I think my first pit pay packet was £52 ??

[Alsatian]

£5 a week and I got stopped 8d NI making my take home pay £4/19s/4d, worked in stationery dept at Kennings Head Office on Old Rd.

Left other when I was 18, earning £8 to work as shop clerk at Bryan Donkins earning £12 per week!

A saying of Kennings employees was that, upon leaving school, you could either do a paper round or work for Kennings. They both paid the same, but you had to get up early to do a paper round!!!

[Slacker]

15 bob a week for my paper round

[Gerty Gumdrop]

What great responses!  Thanks, and I do hope there's a few more to come :-)

I forgot to mention in my post that out of the £3 7s 6d that the 7s 6d went on my NI so my take home pay was just £3.  I gave my mum £1 10s (£1.50) and made the rest last me most of the week.

I eventually moved to what was Post Office Telecomms at the exchange on Saltergate in 1973 for the princely sum of £21 per week.  I thought I was rich then!    

[Old Cruser]

£2 7s 6p part time delivering milk

[therealjr]

£22.50 on yops with Borough Council.
4 months later £480 (month) full time with CBC.