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[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I started work in 1976. I remember it well as it was an incredibly hot summer that year.

I remember my first pay packet well. It amounted to the princely sum of £20, after stoppages I took home £16.84 ( what a crazy thing to remember)

I gave £4 to my mum for keep, and spent the other £12.84 down the pub ( yes it was easy to get served in the pubs underage in those days)

The rest of my money I would spend on packets of Players No.6 ciggies (oh you've got to 18 to smoke now)

Amount of money saved zero......nothing much changes really.

Do you remember your first wage packet?

[Proz]

Yes .... would have been 1986 and was £27.50    :-/

[Lizzie_Zoom]

I started work in 1976. I remember it well as it was an incredibly hot summer that year.

I remember my first pay packet well. It amounted to the princely sum of £20, after stoppages I took home £16.84 ( what a crazy thing to remember)

I gave £4 to my mum for keep, and spent the other £12.84 down the pub ( yes it was easy to get served in the pubs underage in those days)

The rest of my money I would spend on packets of Players No.6 ciggies (oh you've got to 18 to smoke now)

Amount of money saved zero......nothing much changes really.

Do you remember your first wage packet?

#

Yes I do; on 7th October 1968 my first weekly wage paid to me was £5 / 10s / 0d!, out of which my dear darling mother extracted £2 / 2s / 6d!

[Mr Skrunts]

Do you remember your first wage packet?

I certainly do.  Was 1977, as an apprentice was paid .50p an hour, grand total of £20

Mum got a fiver towards board then went to the supermarket and bought some honey roast ham, hazlet, bradckaes, lurpak, piccalli, jaffa cakes, Nutalla and some milk.  All the stuff I liked but was allways told "No" to when I was a kid, then sat down and had one stupid picnic and make myself ill for the weekend.  

Was it really that long ago.  

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I started work in 1976. I remember it well as it was an incredibly hot summer that year.

I remember my first pay packet well. It amounted to the princely sum of £20, after stoppages I took home £16.84 ( what a crazy thing to remember)

I gave £4 to my mum for keep, and spent the other £12.84 down the pub ( yes it was easy to get served in the pubs underage in those days)

The rest of my money I would spend on packets of Players No.6 ciggies (oh you've got to 18 to smoke now)

Amount of money saved zero......nothing much changes really.

Do you remember your first wage packet?

#

Yes I do; on 7th October 1968 my first weekly wage paid to me was £5 / 10s / 0d!, out of which my dear darling mother extracted £2 / 2s / 6d!

Not paid in groats then Lizzie.

[Mr Skrunts]

I started work in 1976. I remember it well as it was an incredibly hot summer that year.

I remember my first pay packet well. It amounted to the princely sum of £20, after stoppages I took home £16.84 ( what a crazy thing to remember)

I gave £4 to my mum for keep, and spent the other £12.84 down the pub ( yes it was easy to get served in the pubs underage in those days)

The rest of my money I would spend on packets of Players No.6 ciggies (oh you've got to 18 to smoke now)

Amount of money saved zero......nothing much changes really.

Do you remember your first wage packet?

#

Yes I do; on 7th October 1968 my first weekly wage paid to me was £5 / 10s / 0d!, out of which my dear darling mother extracted £2 / 2s / 6d!

Not paid in groats then Lizzie.

I can still remember the £-s-d Just  :-/

[Lizzie_Zoom]

I started work in 1976. I remember it well as it was an incredibly hot summer that year.

I remember my first pay packet well. It amounted to the princely sum of £20, after stoppages I took home £16.84 ( what a crazy thing to remember)

I gave £4 to my mum for keep, and spent the other £12.84 down the pub ( yes it was easy to get served in the pubs underage in those days)

The rest of my money I would spend on packets of Players No.6 ciggies (oh you've got to 18 to smoke now)

Amount of money saved zero......nothing much changes really.

Do you remember your first wage packet?

#

Yes I do; on 7th October 1968 my first weekly wage paid to me was £5 / 10s / 0d!, out of which my dear darling mother extracted £2 / 2s / 6d!

Not paid in groats then Lizzie.

Not quite, but half pennies were still in circulation then!! Mind you I do remeber farthings also being in circulation earlier in my life, and that is scary!!

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I started work in 1976. I remember it well as it was an incredibly hot summer that year.

I remember my first pay packet well. It amounted to the princely sum of £20, after stoppages I took home £16.84 ( what a crazy thing to remember)

I gave £4 to my mum for keep, and spent the other £12.84 down the pub ( yes it was easy to get served in the pubs underage in those days)

The rest of my money I would spend on packets of Players No.6 ciggies (oh you've got to 18 to smoke now)

Amount of money saved zero......nothing much changes really.

Do you remember your first wage packet?

#

Yes I do; on 7th October 1968 my first weekly wage paid to me was £5 / 10s / 0d!, out of which my dear darling mother extracted £2 / 2s / 6d!

Not paid in groats then Lizzie.

I can still remember the £-s-d Just  :-/

decimalisation came in 1971 ...I  was eleven and remember all the old coinage well ......half crown 2/6 was my favourite.

[yorkshire ripper]

1984 - 40 pound a week packing meat at the abbatoir in leeds.
i give me mam a tenner a week board. i went out with my older brothers to the pub and got blasted on cider.haha it only cost a tenner. i remember putting my sister's eye make up on my top lip trying to give myself a moustache, it run down my face after a couple of pints.
i felt really grown up............ how wrong i was hahahahahah
lee

[Entwood]

Not the first pay-packet as I worked for the co-op for a while .. but I remember my first "pay parade" in the RAF very well .. December 1970 ....

Basic pay was 21 guineas a week ( £22 01s  00d or £22.05p in new money!). They took tax, food, accomodation charges and £1 POSB (Post Office Savings Book) off at source ..

so it was..

March forward, Salute, No, Rank, Name, sign for your cash... £5 07s 06d (£5.37.5p) to last the week.. payday was Thursday .. broke by Sunday on a good week, broke by Saturday night most weeks  

[Richie London]

1976, apprentice coppersmith, basic pay 20 a week, 3 quid to mum, rest in pub.  

[Bandit127]

1977, a Saturday job in Fine Fare, Trowbridge. IIRC the princely sum of £1.41 was all mine. Mum let me off the rent as it was a part time job.

Alan Freeman's rock show was on in the warehouse in the afternoon. A perfect antidote to the crappy musak in the shop.

£1.41 doesn't sound much, but Watney's Red was 14p a pint! No problem being served in a pub aged 15 back then. Not in Trowbridge anyway.

Same as some of the others have said - it seems like yesterday.

[pete.h]

1975   1st week  £17  , driving Morris 1000 van for a tailor in Leeds.

2nd week brakes failed down a hill to some traffic lights , went across at red , missed everything which wouldn't happen today.

I'd only been driving a couple of months , nearly gave up after that !!

[shyboy]

!956, aged 16, first monthly pay cheque from the Civil Service,
£12.12shillings, (3 guineas per week).
In those days I could go pubbing and clubbing (mainly Trad. Jazz), for the weekend and do it all on less than 10s. (50p), including beer and ciggies. Was also able to run an 8hp. Ford Popular, in black of course, until one of the halfshafts broke in two. £10 I paid for it. Was ripped off!  

[LaserLance]

Started work in summer of 76 worked in aylesford paper mill with me grandad took home £28.50 . Gave me mum a fiver i think , put £4 in the tank of me Honda ss 50 (gutted all me mates had fizzies) 45mph flat out except down bluebell hill then i got it up to 60 > Oh happy days, hot sun  cheap beer and no cares in the world only downside was i had to do shift work ,nights at 16 theres a culture shock