wages

[kerry-ann]

iv put this in the money and finance section but havnt got many answers!
i am an office clerk but also deal with the accounts at work on sage, im 17 years old and i get paid 109.20 per week thats with tax taken of and N.I taken of i work 38 hours a week! is this about the right amount of money i should be getting for my age??

p.s my pregnacy is going fine no cravings for vic anymore. iv left college for a year just so i can earn some money for when the baby is born the due date is 13th december!

[horsestache1]

Currently the national minimum wage for people under the age of 18 is �3.00 per hour, which for your 38 hours per week is �114.00 per week (bl**dy awful).

However when you reach 18 your salary should go up to the minimum wage of �4.25 per hour �161.50 per week.

Most Companies pay above the minimum wage, so I'd keep an eye out for a new job, its now illegal to discriminate against you because you are pregnant women, but thats not to say it dosent happen.

Good Luck

[horsestache1]

Its �5.05 for workers aged over 22 years

[steviep165]

cheers horsetache, my mistake. its a long time since i was that young!!

[dot.hawkes]

when I was 18 i was on �16 a week, but then petrol was about 65p a gallon i guess.

[dot.hawkes]

blimey I just googled it and it was under 39p a gallon, and I had a mini and so ran on 2 star anyway! why don't we have star'd petrol now?
http://www.aatrust.com/files/reports/140605_Pe trol_Prices.pdf

[claireyfairy]

dot - the students not paying tax thing is confusing becuse if it is a temporary job where during the period of work you will not earn over the normal tax barrier (i.e. about 5 grand) then you don't pay tax but if you wil earn over this amount or if the employment is perminant then students do pay tax like normal working people. I know as I am a student, only thing students don't pay regardless of their emploment is council tax.

[dot.hawkes]

they must have changed that then cos when I did my degree (1997 - 2001) i worked 26 hours a week (at night) and didn't pay tax and got a full Grant from the LEA. and I got the student loans aswell, I know that was a different grant system but when did the tax change?