Pocket money for 16 YO DD

[TinyBuddhettes]

Can I ask how much your 6th formers get for pocket money a month, and do they have to do anything to earn it? Thanks

She gets €50 a week - we’re not in uk. Everything comes out of that. I buy essentials (like toiletries, underwear etc) If she buys her lunch for school she pays. Gifts for friends, entertainment, transport card top ups, clothes (no uniform at the school) Going out at weekends. It all comes out of her pocket money. She is also expected to be saving for university. None of them will have a paid job until then.

I’m a bit of a soft touch and buy her clothes occasionally.

All of the kids are expected to keep a clean room, cook occasionally, and they all clean up after dinner each night.

Thanks!
Anyone else?

£20/ week out of which she can either pay for school lunch or take it from home. We pay phone, buy toiletries and gave a decent sum for good gcse results.
She absolutely thrives in work in was so good for her id almost have paid them for the lessons in life and boost to self esteem it gave her.

Sixth formers do have time to work unless they're serious sportspeople too possibly

My DD is only 9 but at 16 I'd had a job for a year and didn't get pocket money.
I'll expect her to get a little Saturday job by 16 to teach her how to manage her own money and welcome her to the world of work.

I was getting my child benefit monthly, parents would just transfer it over. No I didn’t have to do anything for it, but I did odd jobs around the house etc.

^ that was until I left school. When I left school (Y11) as PP suggests I got a part time job that summer, and usually did about 20hrs a week which would get me about £500-600 a month.

She gets £50/month plus her phone, clothes, travel, etc paid for. She's also just got a part time job which should bring in another £300/month.

Dd ( nearly 17) will get £250 pcm from us, this is for lunches, clothes and entertainment. We pay her travel separately. She also has a job which pays similar.

£250 a month!! That’s loads! Mine gets £50 a month and earns about £200 a month from her job. That seems plenty as she saves about 90% of her wages. We pay for her phone and ‘essentials’ but anything else she has to pay out of her wages.

I'm in Ireland I've €50 a week for spends out of my wages each week, are you in Ireland? Dd13 gets €5 as does ds9 I'm expecting I'll be putting hers up in the near future as she has started secondary school.

DD got £100 a month, which paid for toiletries, non-basic clothes (so we'd pay to ensure she had a couple of pairs of shoes, a couple of coats, jeans, underwear, a few basic tops), presents, going out, treating herself to a drink from Costa, etc.

At 17, we upped it to £200 a month, which also covered all clothes, transport to school (quicker train or cheaper bus) and lunches on school days school (unless she made herself lunch from home).

If she'd got herself a PT job (she didn't as she was very committed to working for her A levels and did a lot of study for them), we'd have given her the same. Having said that, if we were in a position where the above money made an impact on our ability to spend on other things, we'd not have been so generous and she'd have had to either cut down her spending or get a job.

£40 per month, and we pay for phone, travel card, clothes. No expectation to do chores beyond basic room tidying, etc but they earn more money for helping significantly around the house.

No I’m on the continent. My children are late teens though, they didn’t get pocket money at 9. I started them all on that amount when they were 15. @Happierwithouthim

like @AliMonkey if things were tighter at home then the amount would be less. My son who is the youngest, has the most money because frankly, he doesn’t spend it! Getting your nails and hair done all adds up. I’ll admit, I do grit my teeth at how much they spend sometimes. But I tell myself I’m teaching them to budget.

Mine get £10 a week. It's enough for them to buy a soft drink or something from the cafe.

I buy (fairly basic) clothes and food, and I also pay for phones, bus pass, sports, clubs and driving lessons.

They have jobs from 15 to pay for going out and everything else.

She goes to school 30 miles away, we both work ft. How much do you think 5 lunches cost ? We always pinned it to the Tesco meal deal so £3:50 X 5 so £20 pw is lunches ( yes she could take from home, I struggle these days to do any meal for less than £1:50l), I think she deserves a coffee now and the. I allow £50 pw for clothes ( everything except for school uniform- no longer an issue) which leaves £20 a week for " fun" I tied this amount to a trip to the cinema with some snacks, I don't think that is an unreasonable expectation for a girl who works hard all week at school. We are in the SE.

Ds is just going onto upper sixth.
He gets £50pm from me (and I think his dad gives him £20pm).
I also give him an annual clothing allowance, £250 last year and just given £300 this year. He tends to buy from Vinted etc.
I cover his transport on an annual bus pass.
I pay for his phone £7pm.
I also pay all hockey & judo costs.
I provide food he can take from home if he wants, but won't pay extra for food brought out of the house.
I expect him to pay for presents for family himself, but don't personally have high cost expectations for this - appreciate the thought more. His dad's side seem to expect him to spend more.

He hasn't got a job.
He has to leave @ 6.50am most days to get to college, has sports Wed & Fri evenings plus match on a Saturday, and goes to his dad's Mon evening & half the weekend.
He is also limited by living in a village with nothing here and last bus home being 7pm.
He worked the summer after his GCSEs but didn't this year.
Given his other commitments I'd prefer him not to have a part time job for y13.

Well I would love a parent like you. £50 a week for clothes = £2,600 a year!!

I thought £50pw was a lot, but given the figures I think it is pm?
£20 lunches + £10 coffees etc + £20 fun = £50pw = £200pm + £50 clothes = £250 mentioned I'm the first post?

Well that would make more sense 😅

Yes sorry it's £50 pm for clothes. Was £250 twice a year but she prefers it monthly. I will ( and do) buy supermarket underwear and basic toiletries,I also pay for a hair cut 3 X a year.

£10 a week if his room is kept tidy. I give him extra if he wants to go to the cinema or ice skating.

We are higher earners, in some ways I feel she paid for me to be at work while she was at primary school when I am sure she would have loved me to be there at the school gates every day.

Nothing. Both my DC were working part time by the time they started 6th form & were earning about £500/£600 a month.

I still bought them toiletries that were part of the weekly shop but everything else they got themselves. Lunch was something they could take from home but if they wanted anything else, they bought it themselves.

And I still paid for their phone too

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