Wages Today......quite staggering when you think about it.
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Brandane
Legendary Member
- Location
- Costa Clyde
But Mars bars were big back then, and cost 3d...My grandaughter is 16 and at college. She has just got a weekend job as a 'house keeper' in a sheltered home type place.
£9.00 PER HOUR.
When I was 15 I worked 40 hours a week for £4.50 (thats £4 10 shillings in real money). Its hard to equate that.
sleuthey
Legendary Member
- Location
- South Gloucestershire
Does she know you have publicised her salary? 
Every worker there is on the same hourly rate. Its not privateDoes she know you have publicised her salary?
Grant Fondo
Guru
- Location
- Cheshire
Bloody luxury! I worked a 28 hour day for a handful of gravel and a sound beating, but by gum i was happy 
numbnuts
Squire
- Location
- Gone over the hill and far away
Apprentice Blacksmith 1968 £4 4s 7p per week
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
£9 is great if you are 16 living at home.
Try being 35 with a partner and children. It’s not very good.
It’s about £15k a year
Try being 35 with a partner and children. It’s not very good.
It’s about £15k a year
roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
If you want to compare...
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
The drive for constant growth and inflation makes comparisons a waste of time. Austerity and pay cuts/ pay freezes since 2007/8 mean people in work are far worse off than they were in 2006 despite low inflation levels. The diversity between the haves and have-nots is growing.
A living wage to independently support a family in the UK is beginning to be out of reach to working families and is resulting directly to levels of poverty not seen since the Great Depression and the Industrial Revolution.
Many people are living a nightmare caused by a lack of cash to avoid falling into debt before their next pay-day.... personal debt across the UK spiralling.
People often choose not to know how bad it is.
A living wage to independently support a family in the UK is beginning to be out of reach to working families and is resulting directly to levels of poverty not seen since the Great Depression and the Industrial Revolution.
Many people are living a nightmare caused by a lack of cash to avoid falling into debt before their next pay-day.... personal debt across the UK spiralling.
People often choose not to know how bad it is.
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Grant Fondo
Guru
- Location
- Cheshire
My first job in 1980 @ £1.20 hr equates to £5.18 now....thats progress for you!
vickster
Squire
I don’t even know what that means
carlosfandangus
Über Member
First real job as an apprentice bricklayer in 1979 was £22.50 for a 39 hr week, before that i worked in a fishing tackle shop as a schoolboy, 4 hrs Friday and 12 on a Saturday for £7, 16 hrs at 43.75 pence per hour! I did get free bait for a days fishing on a Sunday though.
Grant Fondo
Guru
- Location
- Cheshire
By coincidence my first paid work was digging up ragworms in Poole and selling them to the grockles at 1p a pop. I never told HMRC
Very true.
