Good wages in 1980

[CeeVee]

Found a newspaper from 1980 today...

Works out at just under £43 a day...

 

[paulf]

Found a newspaper from 1980 today...

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Works out at just under £43 a day...

Thats london so it be a lot less elsewhere. I started my time 3 years later and was on £23 a week after tax and ni.

 

[Niftyforfifty]

I started a couple of years before that, 15 quid for a 5 day week hail, rain or snow if ya didn't work you didn't get paid, moved to another firm and hit the big time 13 quid a day, 5 pints for a pound, loadsamoney lol

 

[Topspread16]

Thats london so it be a lot less elsewhere. I started my time 3 years later and was on £23 a week after tax and ni.

I started 19 years after on £60 a week.

 

[jamesthefirst]

Money! An thee were lucky lad I was paid in eggs and bacon bread and butter if I were lucky!
We started at 4 with no stopping till 8 then I walked home which were a shed.

 

[Danny]

Trouble is everything else has gone up in price stupidly and yet trades still think £150 a day is good

 

[Vincey]

Can someone with brains work out what that is in today’s money with inflation

 

[Vincey]

@gps

 

[beader]

I remember that advert always being in the back of the sun news paper in the 80's .

 

[JessThePlasterer]

Money! An thee were lucky lad I was paid in eggs and bacon bread and butter if I were lucky!
We started at 4 with no stopping till 8 then I walked home which were a shed.

Ha ha!

 

[s61]

On the cpi inflation calculator £300 in 1980 is worth £1222

 

[Niftyforfifty]

Can someone with brains work out what that is in today’s money with inflation

That's me f**k*d!

 

[Stevieo]

Money! An thee were lucky lad I was paid in eggs and bacon bread and butter if I were lucky!
We started at 4 with no stopping till 8 then I walked home which were a shed.

Butter? I used to dream about butter!

 

[essexandy]

Money! An thee were lucky lad I was paid in eggs and bacon bread and butter if I were lucky!
We started at 4 with no stopping till 8 then I walked home which were a shed.

Think yourself lucky Danny wasn't building the bloody shed, you'd have been sleeping under the stars.

 

[essexandy]

I started as a labourer in 1980 on £15 a day. By 84 I was on £135 a week and had bought my first house as a single nineteen year old.

 

[lurpak]

More than andy g's on now

 

[vfr12]

£485 a day

 

[paulf]

More than andy g's on now

There's five year olds in sweatshops in China that make more money than the G man.

 

[The Hobo]

On the cpi inflation calculator £300 in 1980 is worth £1222

that sounds about right in line with what were on today ha ha

 

[owls]

Ha ha!

Ha ha!

The frightening part is, i work with fellas like that now.

 

[essexandy]

On the cpi inflation calculator £300 in 1980 is worth £1222

So that'd be £170 odd a day. I'm sure that most of us aim for more than that a day? I sure as hell do.

 

[CeeVee]

So that'd be £170 odd a day. I'm sure that most of us aim for more than that a day? I sure as hell do.

Probably not up north (day rates).
Price is close, not on big sites but smaller builders

 

[paulf]

So that'd be £170 odd a day. I'm sure that most of us aim for more than that a day? I sure as hell do.

£244 a day, the 1980 advert was for 7 days £42.

 

[lurpak]

£244 a day, the 1980 advert was for 7 days £42.

1222/7 170ish

 

[lurpak]

So that'd be £170 odd a day. I'm sure that most of us aim for more than that a day? I sure as hell do.

Aslong as I’m home for 1

 

[The Hobo]

we all aim but seem to miss the target be glad when I'm 80 and can think about reti

So that'd be £170 odd a day. I'm sure that most of us aim for more than that a day? I sure as hell do.[/QUOT

£244 a day, the 1980 advert was for 7 days £42.

£244 a day, the 1980 advert was for 7 days £42.

£244 a day, the 1980 advert was for 7 days £42.

1980 think £6 per hour self employed was the norm in lancashire

 

[paulf]

1222/7 170ish

£174 x7 £244x5. Today's money

 

[John j]

Trouble is everything else has gone up in price stupidly and yet trades still think £150 a day is good

I had a kid with me other day . Fantastic plaster but steady . I gave him £170 and labourer 50. He gave labourer a tenner and offered me 20 back .i said what ye doing . He said ot seems alot wtf . Told hi. To keep it get kids summet . Later said i.ve not had that much for ages

 

[essexandy]

£174 x7 £244x5. Today's money

The original advert was £300 for a seven day week mate.

 

[lurpak]

£174 x7 £244x5. Today's money

Step away from the calculator mate. It will be ok

 

[lurpak]

I had a kid with me other day . Fantastic plaster but steady . I gave him £170 and labourer 50. He gave labourer a tenner and offered me 20 back .i said what ye doing . He said ot seems alot wtf . Told hi. To keep it get kids summet . Later said i.ve not had that much for ages

Wtf

 

[The Hobo]

f**k this never liked maths at school I'm off

 

[paulf]

Step away from the calculator mate. It will be ok

I've chucked it in the bin.

 

[s61]

Here’s a little bit more info from back in the day

 

[The Hobo]

Here’s a little bit more info from back in the day View attachment 26444

tax mans arrived I'm off catch u all catch u all tomorrow