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Your First ever salary

Kap10
Kap10 Posts: 15,577
edited April 2008 in Not Sports Related
£2,960 per annum 1978
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  • Tavern
    Tavern Posts: 7,679
    edited April 2008
    £60 a week working a few nights in the welcome Inn pub plus about £50 a week cleaning windows £110 a week and i was in the 5th year of school not bad for those days loads of dosh for football.1982
  • kigelia
    kigelia Posts: 2,582
    about £80 a week working in a variety of bookies in and around Vauxhall during the mid 90's. during the summer break from doing my degree.

    first proper full time wage was £115/week as assistant manager of a pub - money was crap as they wanted me to live in, despite the flat being a complete bug infested fleapit.
  • Ledge
    Ledge Posts: 7,179
    first proper job was a outdoor clerk for solicitors in Lincoln's Inn Fields remember it was about 12k a year about 1989

    temped around the city for 2 years before that couldn't decide what to do. Got offered a job at SG Warburg's where I was temping on the dealer floor when I told them i was leaving for my job above and turned them down. Regrets I've had a few.

    LOL
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    £12,500 per annum 1998

    that was after my £6.50 per hour working in Benetton in Bromley every sunday 11-5 for a year or so in 1997.
  • bingaddick
    bingaddick Posts: 8,184
    edited April 2008
    £1575 pa in 1978
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    £135 per week labouring for a suspended ceiling fitter 92 first proper job


    £45 per week potman at the catholic club in woolwich plus £18 per saturday for milk round £12 paper round( no saturdays) from the age of 14 enough for illegal activities and footie
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,862
    £7500 1988 natwest (that included £3000 London Weighting)
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,341
    £990 per annum in 1971
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,108
    edited April 2008
    Saturday job was in Sainsbury's, Woolwich between November 75 and May 76. Earnt £4.36 for a Thursday night and all day Saturday.

    Started at Oyez Stationery in June 1976. My wage was £19 per week or £988 per year. Out of that I was able to pay my mum £3 house keeping, buy a weekly train ticket for £2.75, go to Charlton where the entrance fee was about £1.50 (if my memory serves me right) and save for a holiday to Newquay.
  • WhenIwasLittleBoy
    WhenIwasLittleBoy Posts: 5,430
    £4,000 per annum, 1986......scarey

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  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,091
    hhmmmmm. first ever, YTS, Woolwich, 1984, about £14 a week, so annualy £728, but it was only a 6 month course.

    First proper salary, Lewisham, 1985, GEC Plessey, Goods Inwards man, took home about £70 a week, so about £4 - 5k per year I suppose.
  • carlingaddick
    carlingaddick Posts: 1,030
    14k a year
    in 1998 when i started working in litigation
  • Charlton_Charlie
    Charlton_Charlie Posts: 1,428
    Had various jobs from about age 14 to 20 paying between £20 and £400 per week

    First 'proper' job was 3 days a week in the music department at Channel 4 for £440 per month in 1993, supplemented with £20 a day when I could get it in a music PR company....that was tough as my rent was £250 per month and travelcard was £80 per month...fortunately at that time I met my (now) wife who had a proper job as a television researcher earning £25k pa, so she sponsored me until I went full time at BMG Records for the princely sum of £16k pa in 1994.... Still work in PR and fortunately earn a bit more now.
  • Southendaddick
    Southendaddick Posts: 5,314
    £10,500 in 1996, got upped to £12,000 after 6 months probation.

    Was renting a flat in Rotherhithe with my girlfriend, now wife, proper skint but always found money for a beer.
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    £2625 Barclays Bank East Greenwich, 1983.
    Glad I left!
  • Terry Naylor
    Terry Naylor Posts: 2,126
    1989 Postal cadet £89 per week!!

    Left 3 months later to become a fork-lift driver £220 per week KERCHING!!!!!!
  • MCS
    MCS Posts: 8,404
    £7800, as a junior in the print.

    still in the print, and earning handsomely.
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    [cite]Posted By: MCS[/cite]

    still in the print, and earning handsomely.

    You're gonna need to mate! Kids are NOT cheap.
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,230
    ignoring saturday jobs.

    7,500 legal sec 1987
  • Dippenhall
    Dippenhall Posts: 3,919
    1961 had a paper round for 6 shillings a week (30p). 1966 started work with Legal & General on £610 a year.Bought a car, went on holiday to Cornwall, drank 8 pints every Saturday night (5p a pint), went to Charlton every week (7p) and the £500 left over my Mum kept for board and lodgings LOL

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  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,818
    £11,000 in 1992 in insurance (great salary for me at the time living at home), still in insurance (sadly) and thankfully earning far better now !!!
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    £9 a week at Bankside Power Station(now tate Modern) as an apprentice. £2 rail fare--£2 to me mum and i had a whole £5 for rest of week.
  • northstandsteve
    northstandsteve Posts: 14,329
    edited April 2008
    [cite]Posted By: MrOneLung[/cite]£7500 1988 natwest (that included £3000 London Weighting)

    which branch i worked for nat west started july 87 at charing cross branch
  • Glass half empty
    Glass half empty Posts: 2,084
    £105 a week as an apprentice electrician in 1989
  • northstandsteve
    northstandsteve Posts: 14,329
    now £5k a week as a electrician
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,862
    [cite]Posted By: northstandsteve[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: MrOneLung[/cite]£7500 1988 natwest (that included £3000 London Weighting)

    which branch i worked for nat west started july 87 at charing cross branch

    I worked in Natwest Tower for Documentary Credits dept - I actually turned down extra 500 quid at Barclays just because I wanted to work in that building !!!
    Only left Natwest/RBS January last year after 18 and half years !!
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    170 plus london weighting hither green hospital as a porter only 16,not a job a boy should be doing,still have nightmares over it still.
  • addick1965
    addick1965 Posts: 5,092
    £50 a week as an office junior in the Kingsway WC2 circa 1983
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,036
    £37 per week. A tenner to my mum and the rest was spend over the weekend.
  • PeteF
    PeteF Posts: 1,698
    £35 per week working as an office junior in St James Park, one of my first jobs was to ensure the drinks cabinet in the boardroom was always full, at home I had the best drinks for miles, with my first weeks wages I bought 2 LP's (remember them) Supertramp - Breakfast in America and Sex Pistols - Great Rock n Roll Swindle and a Detroit Express footie shirt!

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