On 03/07/2013 09:20, Tim Lamb wrote:
In message , Farmer
Giles writes
On 02/07/2013 18:38, ARW wrote:
They will rise from £2.65 per hour to £2.68 per hour. That's a whole
£1.20 a
week extra for working a 40 hour week.

Would you still want your child to take an apprenticeship?




When I was an apprentice in the early sixties I got just over £2.00
per week - and we worked from 8.30am until 6.00pm Monday to Friday,
and until 1.00pm on Saturday. In comparison - even taking inflation
into account - £107 per week seems not too bad.

£4-8/- a week for an electrical engineering apprentice 1960. There may
have been a slight element of London weighting.


That seems quite high for those days - although, as you said, it was in
London. In fact I got £2 and six shillings per week, but that was after
deductions - which weren't very much, my gross wage was certainly less
than £3.00 (I think £2-15/-). I used to cycle 8 miles to work and 8
miles back, because I couldn't afford the bus fare - happy days!