Back in 1999 the minimum wage was introduced to the uk. For a person over 21 the rate was £3.60 now 16/17 years later it’s £7.20 so it’s doubled. If I doubled my first wage I would now be on £11.04 a hour for working on a production line. What would your hourly rate be if you was to double your wage from when the minimum wage was introduced??
£15 an hour on a production line
In 1999 I earned £25 a day for 8 hours work at a builders merchants so £3.12 an hour. I was only 14 though.
My 1st wage was many years before 1999,
But in 1999 I was having a brief flirtation with a career in IT, I was on a salary doing 35 hours a week, but my hourly rate would work out at £13 ph, subsidising it with a bit of truck driving at weekends.
I started on yts earning 30 quid a week for 40 hours graft. So that works out at 75p an hour back then so a grand total of 1.50 an hour. ■■■■■■■■ screwed us for two years and then let us all go at the end and got more yts in as slave labour.
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I got paid 15quid a week for doing 3 days of high school 0800-1245ish and 30quid a week for pave (yts) when I left 3rd year for the same 40 hour week as others doing sheet metal working… wish I was a kid again
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£27.50 a week on a yts back in 1985-6
I was 9 and therefore not earning
£1.00 per hour back in 1982 that was £25.00 per week from the youth opportunity scheme plus the company paid me £14.00 a week thus making £39.00 a week for a £39 hour week.
bald bloke, we must be the same sort of age. £35.00 a week in '82. Start at 8 and finish sometime 
12 hour days were not unusual. My mum then took £30.00 off me for housekeeping. 
Albert1:
£27.50 a week on a yts back in 1985-6
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However in 1999 I was working for a american film manufacturer on the production line where the hourly rate was £13 an hour basic so it would be £26 an hour 
That bubble burst in 2005, now driving a gas tanker and don’t earn what I did back then 
My 1st wage back in July 1980 was £45.30 as an apprentice Blacksmith at the local Pit
So since the minimum wage was introduced people wage by % has gone down. If in 16 years it’s doubled so should have your wage.
yorkielee:
What would your hourly rate be if you was to double your wage from when the minimum wage was introduced??
£12/hr. Currently on £11/hr.
First wage for me was £100/week when I was 13 working in a restauarant as a dish washer/kitchen assistant as I lived in a seaside resort and most kids used to get summer jobs, all of us working silly hours but loving the money. Earned almost as much as my dad but I also did over 50 hrs a week. Funny how that’d set the theme for work for the rest of my life.
I’ve worked for all kinds of wages over the years. £27.50/week on a YTS scheme, 70p/hr doing 60hrs a week in the mid 80s to £30/hr self employed.
Trying to remember now, 99 i might have been on Kwik Save in between stints on the cars, lets assume i was…most enjoyable job i ever had by the way.
quick back of ■■■ packet calc that was around £9 hour for every hour worked averaged out, but remember that included lots of really early starts where dark money chimed in, and working nearly every Saturday which was part of rota but paid at OT rate regardless, OT calculated on a daily basis not after so many accumulated hours, which is how it should be.
I left the cars cos it was going downhill at the time where i was (scabby bloody job then, they’ve had to change their tune and now pay good money cos they gained such a bad name and struggled to get anyone decent new), actually increased me money for much easier work and less hours, pity KS ended, all good jobs vanish in the end.
Me first artic job was in 76, averaged £93 a week on percentage for probably a 55/60 hour week, but it was bloody hard graft, all ropes and sheets and old bangers with no power steering or bugger all else powered for that matter, you could get a nice motor locally if you wanted to earn about a 1/3rd less, some things never change.
I think N/O money was £5.50, usually spent nights away in digs, kipping across the bonnet on two bloody boards was not living the dream…
Got £25 for a week working with me dad in the school holidays mainly just loading loose shingle into wheelbarrows as he was doing drainage at the time my mum even made up a pretend wage slip for me got loads of calluses from using a shovel but thought it was great fun 
First “real” job was weekends in a matalan’s shop think that was around £3 an hour when i was 16, so about £6 if doubled if i remember rightly they had to put the wages up a bit to attract more people haa haa
If I doubled my hourly rate from 99 it would be about 16 or 20 quid dependant on days or nights… That was a ganger on the railway though, it was bloody hard graft and we blew half of it per week on ■■■■ as we worked away and there was sod all else to do.
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yorkielee:
Back in 1999 the minimum wage was introduced to the uk. For a person over 21 the rate was £3.60 now 16/17 years later it’s £7.20 so it’s doubled. If I doubled my first wage I would now be on £11.04 a hour for working on a production line. What would your hourly rate be if you was to double your wage from when the minimum wage was introduced??
It certainly kept well ahead of inflation (CPI), £3.60 in 1999 would only be worth £5.72 in today’s money.
In inflationary terms you would need to go back to 1991 to get a doubling affect.
My first venture into transport was in 1978 as a man with a van type operation (transit luton) and I used to hire myself out at £9.50 an hour, no end of work either. If that £9.50 had followed inflation it would equate to £53.39 per hour in today’s money. Just looking at rates for a similar type set up now and the going rate is a measly £30.
Transport has definitely not kept up with inflation.
In 1999 I was taking part in a drugs trial to improve cognitive functions…
I can’t remember what I was paid?
In 1999 I earned £4.50 per hour driving forklifts at Avon. That’d be £9 per hour today, I suppose.