Chesterfield Online Forum
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Gerty Gumdrop on September 10, 2013, 05:16:26 PM
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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 :)
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My first wage packet after leaving school was £5.00. I was apprenticed to Robinson & Son as a litho printer.
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£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 ;D
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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 ??
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£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!!!
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15 bob a week for my paper round
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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! ;D ;D
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£2 7s 6p part time delivering milk
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£22.50 on yops with Borough Council.
4 months later £480 (month) full time with CBC.