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[Murdo]

In order to take proper account of her revised duties and recent job performance the Assistant to the Managing Director is to be regraded. She will now be known as the Chief Assistant to the Managing Director.

 

In line with this change in responsibility we wish to ensure that the remuneration for the new post is properly positioned relative to comparable roles in other sectors and that national bargaining arrangements are respected.

 

As a national body, this forum seemed an excellent candidate to source co-consultees.

 

How much pocket money should an eight year old get ? I wonder if there's a regional variation ?

 

 

(Sorry - been reading too much of this sort of guff recently.)

[Cinnamon]

When my girls were that age I think they got about £1.50 - £2

 

They are now 11 & 13, & get £3 a week, plus the odd £1 extra for chores like hoovering,car washing etc

 

That said,I buy everything for them & this money is purely for their treats (Music,make-up & so forth) & phone top-ups which I pay half of.

 

My 11 year old has somehow managed to save nearly £100 as she got a fair bit of cash for her birthday.She is currently saving for our holiday,where again they spend their own money.

 

The 13 year old may get a raise to £4 soon (if she can behave herself)

[AnnieP]

My mum was really smart! She had a tariff of what we could all earn (there were 4 of us), so for example, 10p for clearing the table from a meal, 30p for drying up. 20p for posting a letter etc. I think there WAS a maximum limit to what we could earn in a week though!

When I was 16 and decided to stay on at school to do A levels, she handed over my family allowance to me directly, and with my part time job, I had to buy all my own clothes and toiletries.

I think its really important that children learn the value of money, and that it doesn't just grow on trees!

[Cinnamon]

I should have added that I expect them to make their beds,clear the table,keep their rooms clean & tidy,use the wash baskets, & generally make themselves useful around the house for their pocket money.

 

I only pay for big extras like hoovering & so forth

Although Devon was very sweet when I was sick recently & did all the hoovering for me free of charge & without being asked to "try to make me feel better!"

[Nicola H]

My 9 year old gets £3 a week and uses this to buy treats, she only gets this if her bedroom is tidy and she gets extra pocket money for helping with other chores so she usually ends up with £5. I buy all her clothes and shoes so she can save her money if she wants to buy something expensive like a game for the computer.

 

My 14 year old gets £10 a week but only if he behaves and helps around the house he also has to use this to top up his phone............He has been using his money rather unwisely over the last few months so he now gets zero pocket money and is grounded....................

[Martin B]

I get £30 a month. I also get a £1 a week from my nan.

[AnnieP]

Paid a monthly wage? Very modern. No doubt it gets paid directly into your bank account too?

Have you decided how you're gonna raise the cash for your Eglu yet Martin?

[Martin B]

By working and bribing.

[Mrs Frugal]

My boys (12 and 15) get £20 a month but that is ONLY if they do their homework without moaning and tidy their bedrooms. They get to spend this on whatever they want - XBox or computer games, DVDs etc. They have funsize chocolates available and have one daily so don't need to buy sweets.

[Guest]

My kids don't get any pocket money either - but then a 3 yr old and an 18 month old shouldn't, should they?

 

When I was in early teens, I used to get £1 per week. However, my Dad never gave it to me on time.... usually about 2 months or more would go by, with me continually reminding him every week and still getting nothing. Eventually he would give in and give me £5 (when he really owed between £8 and £10). This taught me a valuable lesson about life, I have learned from it, and now know how to pull this kind of stunt on my own kids.

[Cate in NZ]

My 2, aged 12 & 14 get £10 a month paid direct into a bank account which they can withdraw from the atm using their card. This is for keeping bedrooms tidy and doing homework without too much fuss.We also pay for their mobile phones as they are on a contract which costs us something like £12.50 a month, but we worked it out to be cheaper that way rather than buying the phone and then paying for the top-up cards. They have to agree to certain conditions in order to keep the phones.... namely keeping in touch, letting me know where they are and so on.

They do complain hugely that they are hard done by, and, according to them, all their friends get paid far more.

I should add here that I still buy all their clothes, and anything that they need, and pay for their out of school activities (football subs, tennis coaching, tap dancing classes and so on).

I do also have a scale of rates for household chores, £3 for cleaning a car, £2 for cleaning a room thoroughly (includes vacuuming, dusting, polishing etc), 50p for emptying the dishwasher, another 50p if they load it after. We even used to pay for mowing the lawn..... these days the job is redundant though. Problem is that they can be incredibly lazy and I have an uphill battle trying to persuade son in particular to do anything around the house.

[Mrs Frugal]

Don't let my boys see them, Dan! They're great!!

[ubereglu]

Oh my Days......

 

£30 a month......

 

I'm 13 and only get paid around £3.50, that's crazy money. If I had that much I'd be able to afford an eglu easily.

 

My eglu fund at the minute is the grand total of £1.63

 

It's all in loose change!

[Lesley]

I used to get sixpence a week - and wasn't allowed to spend it on sweets

 

You wonder why I'm such a chocoholic now

[AnnieP]

Dan, your picture of the figures reminded me of what I used to spend my money on: Hideous little Wade "Whimsies": china figurines of little animals that all looked the same. Like you, I kept them all and a few years ago when my mother was clearing out her loft, she gave me the box. I took one look at them and shreiked: How could I collect such disgusting things? Sold them all on Ebay for around £500 and bought myself a beautiful silk screen painting with the proceeds! Good value for money they turned out to be! Result!

[Cate in NZ]

Annie, I used to have a few Wade whimsy figures as well, but I have no idea what happened to them, thrown out years ago I'm sure. Incredible to think that they could be worth that much

[Katie]

Wow, i never used to get any pocket money at all! To be honest i'd feel tight taking money from my parents. I mean they do pay for my riding lessons, feed me and all that! But I buy all my own clothes and stuff, pay for my contract phone (well a cheque goes into mums account from me) also my driving lessons and i've had a job since I was around 13. I've definatly had to learn to save money, which will really help me when i'm older. Too many of my friends don't have jobs and just rely on their parents to buy them stuff - especially when you're 17 i think it's wrong!

 

eee, i've had a hard life so far

[Cate in NZ]

Good on you Katie for your independence and industry. I bet your parents are proud of you..... and I do believe that something that you've had to work for has more value somehow

[Trish]

My 11 n year old gets £1.50 a week and he has chores to do to get that. The other two boys are 14 and 16 and since 13 they have had £40 a month but from that they buy everything not essential, it's amazing what they consider essential though. No seriously they buy casual clothes and extra footwear etc, and any other things like music, going out, pressies you name it. The idea was to help them learn to budget, one does the other much less so but we're hoping he'll get there one day

[Guest]

Hmmmm! I might be quite stingy, but I don't care!

 

My children start having pocket money when they are aged 7. They get £1 a week.

When going to secondary school, they then get £10 a month, but I still buy clothes for them.

Once in year 10 (aged 14) they continue to get £10 a month but I also pay £10 a month into a bank account for clothes.

This has continued into the sixth form, but I am quite resentful that DD1 hasn't managed to get a job. When she does, I will stop all money!

 

They all get a little 'choir pay' from church (ranging from £1.50 - 10 a month) and get paid quite well for singing at weddings (£5).

[AnnieP]

Kids do cost, don't they! Glad I've not got any.

I'm amazed Mel hasn't joined in this debate. I'm sure she'd be able to recommend a few "chores" that children should do!

Seriously though, My Mum isn't half smart! As a baby, she took out an insurance policy on me, which matured when I was 21. I presume you can still do this. Anyway, it paid for my wedding! It was lovely to be able to have just what we wanted and my parents were delighted that they were able to do it for us.

I now do something similar for my God daughters. I put away £5 a month into a bank account for them. When they hit 18 they can have the money to do what they will with it.

[Guest]

That's lovely Annie. I wish my children had such thoughtful Godparents or uncles/aunts/grandparents!

[Mel (& Paul)]

My parents did something similar to pay for my wedding. It matured when I was 21. Unfortunately I got married when I was 20

[Mel (& Paul)]

Kids do cost, don't they! Glad I've not got any.

I'm amazed Mel hasn't joined in this debate. I'm sure she'd be able to recommend a few "chores" that children should do!

 

Clean the loos

Sweep the chimney

Do the doggy poo run

Do the ironing

 

And, as they are children then they do these things for love. Not money

[AnnieP]

I knew I could rely on you Mel!