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Paper round pay?

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Paperound · 03/01/2025 19:03

My DC has just got a paper round job.

It's £13

But we don't know if that's per day (about 45mins to 1 hour delivery round) or per week!! (DC seems to think it's per week from what was said at 'interview' last week, and I also think, sadly, it's per week!)

Anyone have recent experience and knowledge of what the going rate is?

Thanks!!

(AIBU to think, if it's £13 a week, that's a bit exploitative!!? My DC is very keen and thinks this is a lot of money! And if that's the rate, is very fine with it!! But as an adult I realise that for an hour a day, it's peanuts!!)

(DC will be getting up early every day before school in all weathers! Getting to the shop to collect the papers is quite time consuming, and then getting home after the round will take longer (as they end up further away at end of round!). There aren't many houses to deliver to, but they r quite spread out!! So it will take about 2 hours all-in probably, from leaving home to getting home again!)

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DandyTealSeal · 03/01/2025 19:10

I remember it being a £1 a day back about 25years ago and more for the morning round, something like £1.50 per day so £13 now seems very low.

SugarandSpiceandAllThingsNaice · 03/01/2025 19:10

Ridiculous to do a paper round for pennies. He’d be much better off using the time for health or educational purposes.

Christmasrefridgerator · 03/01/2025 19:10

Paperound · 03/01/2025 19:03

My DC has just got a paper round job.

It's £13

But we don't know if that's per day (about 45mins to 1 hour delivery round) or per week!! (DC seems to think it's per week from what was said at 'interview' last week, and I also think, sadly, it's per week!)

Anyone have recent experience and knowledge of what the going rate is?

Thanks!!

(AIBU to think, if it's £13 a week, that's a bit exploitative!!? My DC is very keen and thinks this is a lot of money! And if that's the rate, is very fine with it!! But as an adult I realise that for an hour a day, it's peanuts!!)

(DC will be getting up early every day before school in all weathers! Getting to the shop to collect the papers is quite time consuming, and then getting home after the round will take longer (as they end up further away at end of round!). There aren't many houses to deliver to, but they r quite spread out!! So it will take about 2 hours all-in probably, from leaving home to getting home again!)

Just be careful of timings, I don't think they can legally start before 7am so will they have enough time to get to school?

OurDreamLife · 03/01/2025 19:09

I had no idea this was still a thing kids did.

Christmasrefridgerator · 03/01/2025 19:08

£49/week (£7/day) takes about 30 minutes

Sorry forgot to say I feel this is unusually high though

FoxtonFoxton · 03/01/2025 19:07

I think you need to double check. It does seem ridiculously low. I'd assume they'd heard incorrectly.
Edited to add...just looked back in my ancient diary from the 90s to my paper round and I got more then!

purser25 · 03/01/2025 19:07

That seems very low I know in London about 6 years ago it was about £20 per week

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Paperound · 03/01/2025 19:07

Turbo4 · 03/01/2025 19:05

Where we are it’s £35 for 7 Mornings a week.

So I think that's about double what DC will get then! Oh well, we all have to start somewhere I guess (DC wants to be a millionaire! 🤣 small steps .. 🤣)

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Snorlaxo · 03/01/2025 19:06

How old is dc ? I’d look up minimum wage for their age group.

Ineffable23 · 03/01/2025 19:06

Can you go in with them and check? I think that would be pretty exploitative. £2.50 for an hour's work seems really really low.

Edit: or if it's 7 days a week that's even lower?!

Turbo4 · 03/01/2025 19:05

Where we are it’s £35 for 7 Mornings a week.