1980's wages

[DRC]

Did you not put 70 barrel and a tune up,and change sprockets and pea shooter exhaust , quite quick then

Na, I passed driving test at 17 and progressed to a ford Capri , with obvious benefits .

 

[glasshouse]

I was YTS in 82. £25/week I think, £15 went to mum for keep. At least it went to £30 when I turned 17.
Went onto an estate for the second of my 2 pre college years on AWB rates which was far better. There were 10 or 12 of us on about 2000 acres.
Some bigwig firm advised them to set up a bonus scheme for the staff. They set a minimum yield for each of the arable crops, with so many £’s per cwt/acre above that figure. The bonus was to be paid in 2 instalments, 2/3 of the predicted yield after harvest, the other 1/3 once everything was sold and yields known. As the student I was only to get the first instalment.
I don’t remember what sort of harvest it was in 84, but whoever set up the scheme clearly got their sums wrong as I walked away with a £1500 bonus!

Lucky you werent there in 85

 

[glasshouse]

Na, I passed driving test at 17 and progressed to a ford Capri , with obvious benefits .

Very small back seat!!

 

[Muddyroads]

Lucky you werent there in 85

Pretty sure 84 is the only year they did it. Always remembered the fact that they honoured the agreement though. Good people.

 

[Will 1594]

Na, I passed driving test at 17 and progressed to a ford Capri , with obvious benefits .

Same here ,week after birthday , old escort dcr185k

 

[glasshouse]

Pretty sure 84 is the only year they did it. Always remembered the fact that they honoured the agreement though. Good people.

84 was an exceptional harvest
85 there would have been no bonus anyway

 

[glasshouse]

I recall trying to bale our first crop of winter barley straw in 84, on a saturday morning with a blinding hangover
The old international round baler just didnt want to bale the slippy straw
I remember tempers got frayed

 

[Hillside]

Left school in May 85 and started working at home, £25 /week wages was the going rate according to father so as your earning a big wage he says we will pay you monthly £100 I agreed and it was only after 6 months I realised the auld bugger was taking the rise and savings himself 4 weeks wages over the 12 months, but I like to think it's evened its self up since

 

[Mur Huwcun]

Left school in May 85 and started working at home, £25 /week wages was the going rate according to father so as your earning a big wage he says we will pay you monthly £100 I agreed and it was only after 6 months I realised the auld bugger was taking the rise and savings himself 4 weeks wages over the 12 months, but I like to think it's evened its self up since

Some tenants in a house my parents had tried that trick aswell, instead of IIRC £45 a week they tried setting up a standing order for £180 a month!!! Mother hadn’t worked in a bank since she was 18 for nothing.....

 

[Overby]

July 1992, 39 hrs /£102 a week, nowt left every monday obviously but felt like a King. The heady £3.92 an hour overtime was almost too much to deal with.

 

[Xerion]

Started working for the NCB at hem heath colliery in September 1982 as a mining tech trainee, first weeks wage was 112 pounds and 75 pence
God did I laugh at all those snot nosed tw#ts I went to school with who were all signing up on the YTS for 25 quid a week
For some reason I was at a school that was far to good for me when I answered the question by my careers teacher in front of the whole class, what are you going to do when you leave school?
I am going down the pit sir just like my father
The strokers laughed me out of the room, but I always remember he who laughs last laughs the loudest. So f**k you Harry Littlemore and you plebs life has turned out fine.
Back at the end of the 80s I was face trained and earning 200 a week plus 612 pounds face bonus lived like a lord
Yes perhaps I have a chip on my shoulder but that one I carry with pride

Max

 

[Warp Land Farmer]

I think my Dad was drawing £80 a week in the mid-90’s and working very hard for it. I don’t think the farm paid for anything else until Grandad retired and he took over. It must of been hard for my folks to make ends meet back then with two kids, I recall knowing we didn’t have a lot compared to my friends at school but we had more fun and they all wanted to come to the farm to play.

 

[glasshouse]

Left school in May 85 and started working at home, £25 /week wages was the going rate according to father so as your earning a big wage he says we will pay you monthly £100 I agreed and it was only after 6 months I realised the auld bugger was taking the rise and savings himself 4 weeks wages over the 12 months, but I like to think it's evened its self up since

Fifers!!

 

[Hilly]

Na, I passed driving test at 17 and progressed to a ford Capri , with obvious benefits .

Seen a Capri in car park yesterday , I’d forgot how small they are .

 

[Hillside]

Fifers!!

I’ll give ye fifers, Kinross shire all the way - down side we can see Fife most ways we look

 

[sixrow]

Seen a Capri in car park yesterday , I’d forgot how small they are .

Bonnet about a mile long though.

 

[sixrow]

Started serving my time in 1993 £54 pound a week.Got on my first pipeline in 1998 £240 a day.

 

[Baker9]

Very small back seat!!

The back seat in a Mk1 is small but it was big enough for me in the day, girls were a lot smaller then I was 19 or 20 then, some of them today you would hardly have enough room in the back of a Transit van.

 

[diggerjones]

Started serving my time in 1993 £54 pound a week.Got on my first pipeline in 1998 £240 a day.

Wow. That was good money

 

[diggerjones]

The back seat in a Mk1 is small but it was big enough for me in the day, girls were a lot smaller then I was 19 or 20 then, some of them today you would hardly have enough room in the back of a Transit van.

I managed it in the front of a series 3 landy, once. too many gear levers