Random question for those aged 50+

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Random question that stemmed from a meandering conversation with my mother this evening.

For those of you aged 50+, and therefore doing jobs pre 1985, at what point did getting paid in cash stop being the norm?

My mother remembers getting paid cash in the early 80's for her saturday job in a cafe, but cannot remember if that was still the case five years later when she was working as a waitress and bar staff and no memory of when she started getting pay cheques and when she started getting paid directly into her bank account.

Anyone out there with better memories than her?

I was paid cash in a job in 2016. I think it depends on the type of job.

I was paid in cash until about 1991/2, Saturday/weekend jobs while I was a student.
1st full time job in 1994/5ish was paid into bank. Was never paid be cheque.
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@DustyMaiden out of interest was that for a salaried job? As in monthly wages in cash, or a set amount for a specific job?

Started work in the nhs in 1984 and was never paid in cash. It was completely unheard of in a salaried role even then. Direct straight to bank account.

I was first paid a monthly salary in the very early 1990s working in local government as a librarian.

Sorry that was paid directly in to my account.

Cash in a brown envelope until 1988. Bank account from 1990.

I've never been paid in cash, not even in my first Saturday job in 1986.

i was paid cash until I was out of university and I'm not even 40

My first proper job in 1989 was paid directly into my bank. However working in a civil service job in my gap year two years later I was paid via Giro and cashed it every month at the post office!

I had part time jobs from an early age ( early/mid 80s until very early 90s), always paid cash. I was only paid into a bank when I got my first salaried job (1991)

I was paid cash in the mid eighties for a Saturday job but in 1989 was paid into my bank account for my first teaching job.

Yup, cash payments for casual and part time work until late 80s. Only had salaried work after that myself, which was paid into my bank account.

My very first full time job in a factory I got cash in a packet every Friday. This was 1984, by 1985 I was in an office and paid by BACS.

Strangely when I was unemployed between the two jobs my benefit was paid by giro, which could be cashed at the post office or you could pay it in to the bank, but if you did you had to inform the DHSS.

There were a lot more 'cash in hand' jobs in the 1980s and due to the benefit system at the time, if you were offered a couple of days work it would cost you a week's dole so a lot of building jobs were done cash in hand.

I used to do the books for my ex who was a self employed plasterer, he paid his apprentice in cash (above board and through the books) but NI was paid by literally buying a 'stamp' at the post office and putting it on a card.

I did the payroll for a company until 1985 those in the factory were paid in cash The office workers were paid by bank transfer.
I used to go up to the bank draw out the cash around 3k and bring it back in my handbag
Later jobs in the 90s were all bank transfer we would occasionally pay someone cash if they wanted it as I worked for an Insurance Broker and we received a lot of cash payments and it was cheaper to use the cash for payroll rather than bank it

In 1985 worked for big manufacturing company (global). We had a bank branch on site. Shop floor workers paid weekly into a nominated account at this bank but then would queue at the bank to take their wages in cash. So I’m pretty sure it would have been new to the shop floor staff to be paid into account rather than cash. I was “professional” salaried and paid monthly direct to my bank account. 4 years later the bank was closed on site and replaced with cash point- guess by then staff had adjusted to idea of direct bank transfers.

I worked at Timothy Whites on saturdays. We got paid in cash until about 1984, and then it went straight to the bank somewhere around then.

Dd still gets paid in cash for her Saturday job - I think if you’re a cash business you’ll be more likely to pay some staff in cash.

Cash in a brown envelope ‘86-‘88, then switched jobs and was paid into the bank.

My first job out of University was in the personnel department of a regional office of British Gas (glamour!). This was 1985. The office workers were paid a monthly salary direct into their bank accounts. The manual workers (ie. the gas fitters and anyone who looked after the vehicles or buildings) were paid wages - and they were known as wages - weekly in cash. They had to go and queue up at a little cash office to collect it. Imagine something so Dickensian in 1985! And this was 100s of people so involved a tremendous amount of work for the cash office.

The bosses wanted to change the system to monthly salaries into bank accounts for everyone but apparently would have faced strike action if they tried to impose it.

Well weirdly not last winter, we went for a meal in local Wehterspoons and found someone's pay packet - he came back and was very relieved that it had turned up. You can still buy wage envelopes so I wouldn't assume cash payment is gone
though you've got to wonder if it is a no tax, no NI no RTW scenario

Saturday job in a public library 1984 - straight into the bank (all £1.10/hr of it). Holiday job 1985 - cash in an envelope, including all the coins. I think that one was about £58/week 🤣.

I wasn’t paid in cash. I left university in 1985. Some earlier Saturday jobs were cash,

First paid into the bank on 1995, cash before
that but only Saturday jobs.

Husband worked as Postman from 1984 and for many years paid weekly in cash in little brown envelope.