I remember when my take home pay was...

[ThomasSoerensen]

In 1994 I started as an accountant on 1000 EUR per month - before 50% taxes. Not much room for fun. Had to borrow 1000 GBP from my parents for my first PC - paid it back over 1.5 years.

[Sysman]

Whatever £1500/yr got you in 1973.

Income tax was 30%.

Employee's NI was (if what I found was correct) 5.25%.

Just short of 30 quid a week then. In 1973 between school and uni I got a night job which paid a princely 21 quid a week - if I'd been 21 I'd have got 28 quid a week, but it was what the unions had agreed. And folks wondered why I had little sympathy with unions...

The following year I splurged all my student holiday money on hifi and ended up with a set up which lasted many years. My parents went a bit mental about it, but if I hadn't spent it on hifi they wouldn't have given me any money at all (their income put me in zero grant territory) and my father would have wasted it on cars anyway.

Some of my student mates managed to get £40 a week working long hours in crappy conditions - bread factories and foundries come to mind, but I never managed those dizzy sums.

First proper job in 1977, £2300(?) p.a. with zero overtime. I'm not entirely sure about that figure but it worked out at about £180 per month take home pay.

Programmer-cum-operator but classed as a "Management Trainee" so that they could claim most of it from the government. We did get a decent pay-freeze busting rise which we were only too happy to keep quiet about.

[stillooking]

£26 per week in 1978 working in a 'suits you sir' tailors/high street clothing outfit

[RichardCranium]

I remember take home pay.




Just.

[Sysman]

You're the git that sold me that dreadful beige suit with the lapels out to the shoulders, aren't you?

I think I must have got his elder brother a few years earlier.

I came across some old wedding photos from that era a few months ago. We looked like the Mafia.

[mudskipper]

In 1994 I started as an accountant on 1000 EUR per month - before 50% taxes. Not much room for fun. Had to borrow 1000 GBP from my parents for my first PC - paid it back over 1.5 years.

My first PC was a second hand IBM XT - 512k RAM and a 20Mb hard drive - then I splashed out another £550 on a dot matrix printer.

[jvector]

First holiday job, late '60's ... 6s3.5d/hr. (Just over £12 per week). I resolved then that I would be making £3000 /year by the time I was 30!

[ThomasSoerensen]

My first PC was a second hand IBM XT - 512k RAM and a 20Mb hard drive - then I splashed out another £550 on a dot matrix printer.

mine was an intel dx4 486 66mhz (with turbo button to increase it to 100mhz) and 4 med of RAM. I remember I had to pay an extre 400GBP for the abpve standard extra 2 meg of ram. Cracking machine. I tought myself the office package from Novell. With the spreadsheet called quattro-pro. All for following my business bachelor. Where everyone used MS excel

[HairyArsedBloke]

I remember when my take home pay was the same as my gross pay.

Oh, hang on, it still is.

[DiscoStu]

I remember when my take home pay was the same as my gross pay.

Oh, hang on, it still is.

I'd like some hints and tips on achieving this please