How much do paper boys get these days?

[Kona-Ian]

I had two weekly paper rounds including Sunday.
Sunday on it's own was supposed to be £2.
Got £8.50 for each, so £17.
Did do an evening one but you only got so much depending on what you collected.... rip off to be honest.
Did actually have a car washing business..
Had a fair few regular customers.

Whats y'all gets when you was a kid.

 

[Midlife]

48 pence a week for 5 day evening paper round

Shaun

 

[Rampage]

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From memory it was around 5p per paper in 1994.
Sunday's were a nightmare with all the extra magazines they put in them.

More money was made from fixing bikes and buying and selling from the police auction.

 

[Kona-Ian]

That's why Sunday was 2 quid, was bastard heavy.
1994 was my last year as a paperboy, went to College in September 1994.
Never heard of price per paper though.

 

[konacarl]

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mid 80's I used to get £5 a week for 7 mornings and 6 evenings. All of us used to take 5 extra evening papers and deliver to our regular 'fiddles' to get an extra fiver. :shock:
Another scam was to get paid early in the week when the owner had been to the pub all afternoon. He'd forget and pay us again on saturday.
It kept my Diamondback Viper well tricked .
Nowdays my son gets 9p per paper which works out at about £17 per week for one round a day.

 

[M-Power]

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Was never given pocket money :cry: so used to mow lawns and wash cars as a kid. Half the time I'd ride a few miles to a house only to discover their lawnmower was fuxxed in some way. I'd usually get it working after some fettling. Maybe id get a fiver and a glass of juice for all that and occasionally an eyeful of scanty Cougar.

Had a nice regular customerbase for washing cars in Golders Green until a 16yr old bonkers mate insisted on joyriding a Silvershadow around the only farm in N Lond...then crashing it into a double garage, writing it, the garages and the neighbours sports car off in the process. Never forget Mr Shylers face when he came back home. The rest is history thank fuxx

 

[spatuluk]

I used to deliver free papers on Wednesdays. Had a large area to cover, but it included about 150 flats in a building that was empty because it was flagged for demolition.

Think I got about £15 a week, in about 1988. Can't remember how many houses it involved.

I wonder how much they get paid these days, coz I keep seeing guys in their late 30s doing paper rounds (or might be leaflet rounds), and I wonder how downhill their life must've gone to make them steal jobs from teenagers. :s

 

[T'boo Ted]

Thruppence...

OK i don't even know what that is, but it comes up in ye oldie speak on tv and stuff.

Never had a job when I was young, first one was in late highschool at local hardware store during holidays... but generally $3-400AU (~150pounds) per week (sometimes more) in '88-89.

 

[ultrazenith]

Christmas tips was where the big money was made, at least on my round in a semi-rural, middle class suburb near Plymouth. I can't remember how I got the idea, maybe the post office owner, but I'd give an xmas card to every house on my round, and most of the customers would give me a decent enough tip. In 1993, December's pay plus tips plus the proceeds of selling my Marauder was nearly enough to buy my M Trax 400.

 

[mrdryskull]

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Seems you don't get much for a paperboy,,,,You would get a lot more for a Newsboy,,,,.