Does anyone DC's do a morning paper round?

[muttonjeffmum]

My 14 year old son has been doing a morning paper round for the past week. He came home this morning with his wages - £20. He has to be at the shop for 6am Monday to Saturday and 7am on a Sunday.

He marks up his own papers and on a weekday gets home about 7.15am. He is quite happy to do it but says the pay is crap. It does seem crap - not even £3 per day. I was wondering if anyone could tell me what the 'going' rate is because if he needs to ask for more money I would like some idea of the average pay. Thanks

One of mine does a weekend round, doesn't mark up the papers. It's £3 for one day and £3.50 for the other day. I forget which is which, but one day is a slightly heavier load.

My ds1 recently asked about a paper round and that sounds about right actually. Think it was 3 pounf for a weekday and 5 for each day at the wkend. So all 7 days wd get u twenty to twentyfuve. Grr typos, posting from new phone! Cant finf my pound symbol either!!

my son does 7 days morning round,needs to be at the shop 7.00 am in the week 7.30 at weekends, does not mark up papers that is done for him. he gets £25 pw,which seems ok. I may be wrong but i'm sure that at their age they should not legally be working before 7.00am.

I used to get £15 a week for my paper rounds (I did 2!) and that was oh erm 12ish years ago.

All three DC have done one. DS2's shop has just merged a few rounds and made some paperboys/girls redundant. He used to get £16.00 for a 7-day week and now gets £19.00 for more work.

Is it your DS's choice to get to the shop so early int he week? That's illegal. U-16s can only start work at 7 am. My DS gets there earlier (unlike the other two DC!) as he's very conscientious about being punctual and likes to take his time to get ready for school.

Happyscouse - £25! Wow! How many papers, if you don't mind my asking? DS does 30-35 per day now.

My DD did the free papers. Just once a week. They were delivered to us at lunchtime on a Wednesday and they had to be delivered any time between then and Thursday at 7 pm. She got between £9 and £14 depending on if there were any leaflets in there or not. I would fold them and put the leaflets in and she would deliver them. Took me about an hoursat in front of TV and took her about and hour and a half. Much better than a daily round.

Gosh, Mamma. Mine did the free papers before they went bust and only got about £5.00 per week and then pence more, depending on the leaflets.

Ilove, he has25-30 depending on the day (and his dad helps him with the heavys at the weekend) will tell him he's the John Paul Getty of the paperboy world!

My ds 14 does a morning round between 25-30 per day 6 days a week and gets £20. It takes him 35-40 mins to do the round and the papers are ready when he gets there at 7 am.

I agree that those weekly rounds seem to be a bit better paid. And then there's sometimes a bit of extra money when there are leaflets. It doesn't seem very much in view of the getting up early and taking an hour a day.

I did a weekly round and the pay was awful for how long it took if there were lots of leaflets. About £20 for a full day lugging a huge trolley round in all weathers. If there were fewer leaflets and I could fit all 250 papers in at once I could just do it and it took about 3 hours but if they were thick I had to keep going home to restock which took time. And the blasted things took ages to prep as well and filled the house when they came. I was really really skint though and needed every penny I could earn. The downside of no leaflets was only about £7 pay. This was about 6 - 7 years ago.