I remember when my take home pay was...

**ctdctd** · 2 November 2009, 08:41

£1 per day.

Saturday boy at a Radio & TV shop in 1975

**DimPrawn** · 2 November 2009, 08:41

I used to get paid weekly. £76 per week as an electronic technician at a small company around about 1985.

**OrangeHopper** · 2 November 2009, 09:11

First IT job - 1983 - £6000 pa.

**Lockhouse** · 2 November 2009, 09:18

Originally posted by OrangeHopper View Post

First IT job - 1983 - £6000 pa.

1981 and £7200 inc shift allowance as an operator.

**Paddy** · 2 November 2009, 09:20

Originally posted by zeitghost

Whatever £1500/yr got you in 1973.

No bad as you could buy a very nice house for £3,000

**EternalOptimist** · 2 November 2009, 09:25

£100

but if only I knew then what I know now. I'd be as rich as creosote.
ooohh. maybe we should have a thread about that

**lukemg** · 2 November 2009, 09:30

1989 - First job out of Uni, helping out in the labs at a manufacturing place. 157/week paid in cash by trim account assistant who insisted on wearing stockings and suspenders. She also insisted on flashing the tops of them at me as she delved in the safe to get my cash, happy days and yes I did, some time later when I got a perm job there in the I.T. dept....

**ctdctd** · 2 November 2009, 09:30

Originally posted by zeitghost

Spending £2.5k on hi-fi instead of a house was not a good move.

Quad ?

**EternalOptimist** · 2 November 2009, 09:32

Originally posted by zeitghost

Indeed.

.

Spending £2.5k on hi-fi instead of a house was not a good move.

but it seemed like a good idea at the time.

I remember when my take home pay was...