How much did you earn in 1993?

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I was reading a book set in 93 and the lead character is said to have a salary of £55k a year. It’s obviously suggested to be good, but I’m curious as to what that relates to in real terms.

Nothing, but in the following year I earned £12 each Saturday sweeping up hair at a hairdressers.

About £2.50 a week pocket money. Although it was worth a lot back then.

I started work in 95 not 93, but I started on the princely sum of £10k a year

I was on 15k per annum, a historical money calculator puts that at around 38k in todays money. My house share room was £30 per week inc bills in Birmingham, it was a bit of a dump but so cheap.

ProfYaffle I learned how to build websites around that time, I really wished I had pursued that as IT was really well paid as skilled back then. Well we live and learn.

£11.3k was my starting salary as a new graduate in August 1993 in the south west. I thought anything over £10k would be good.

14,000 as a new graduate in the City. Articled Clerks (graduate legal trainees with post graduate law qualifications) at top law firms would get 14,000 to 18,000 depending on the firm. Some rocket scientist graduate jobs at trading firms would pay the frankly staggering sums of 25,000-30,000.

55,000 sounds like the sort of money you’d have got a couple of years post qualification at a Magic Circle law firm - aged mid to late twenties.

I was 18 and at college, I worked in a dog kennels every weekend from 8-6 for £15, I felt like I was earning a fortune.

£16,500 in 1993.

The same job advertised today would probably give a salary of about £22 - £25,000 - which is obviously PANTS and the reason why so many people are broke, in debt, stuck in shitty rented accommodation and having their salaries topped up with tax credits and the like.

Meanwhile, the CEOs and high earners of this world have seen their salaries go up from unfair to seriously fucking obscene.

£34,000. I was very happy with that.

About £10k at AO level in the Civil Service.

My dad earned about that at the time, or possibly more. I was sahm at the time and dh earned about 12k. I was quietly envious of my friend who's dh was on 20k.

I earned £70 a week in my first job in 1985

You can get an inflation calculator here - its was worth £114,577.55 in 2020. www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator

I know this as it's the year I moved to London for a new job. £18K. I was very pleased with it and frankly felt rich. I was also able to buy a house in London, on that salary alone, for £62,000 (which are now going for half a million).

£15 a week. £5 for a weekly local paper delivery round and £10 for a morning paper round.
Sometimes I got to pick up an additional morning round when someone was on holiday, so I got £25.

Before my paper round I was on £1.50 pocket money so felt very rich!

About £9,500. DH was a lecturer on around £13,000. We'd just bought a small detached house for £51k.

£18500 plus car and petrol.

I was earning more in 1993 than ds was in a call centre 3 years ago

£7,500 a year for the NHS, decided it was shit and left to do a degree. £55k was loads in 1993

I got my first job in 1993 - working retail at weekends/one late night a week.

I was paid £2.05 per hour! And felt rich when I got my monthly pay envelope with about £88 in cash.

I know quite a few people who started graduate jobs on over £25k - £30k a year in the mid - late 90s though. So it isn't unreasonable for someone working in a fairly well paid career to be earning £55k a year then.

1993 - various temp jobs at @ £4.00 pH.
1994 - starred grad training scheme at £13,200 pa.

I was 8, so earning £1 pocket money per week cleaning my room and unloading the dishwasher! Looking back I had it pretty good

I was 8 years post graduation and I was on about £20k per annum.

About 18k as a newly qualified accountant. I guess the partners might have been on that sort of money.

I remember the partner I reported too ordered a Morgan which took a year to build. that wouldn't have been cheap.

I'd just qualified as an accountant and was in £11,000. £55k would have been very high in those days