Paper round pay?

[Paperound]

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!)

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

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?!

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

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 .. 🤣)

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

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!

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

Sorry forgot to say I feel this is unusually high though

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

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?

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.

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

I mean, it’s the best part of 40 years since I did a paper round but it was £10 a week even then! 6 mornings ( cant remember who did the Sunday papers!!) and a much quicker evening round some days as well.

It's 5 days!

They r 13!

They would die of embarrassment if I went anywhere near the shop, let alone talk to the staff on their behalf!! They wants to handle it all themself!! (and they seem happy with £13 a week!)

(Just using 'they' to triple check anonymity and not reveal gender! because 'they' really wouldn't want me posting on here if there was anyway they would be identified! They r way too cool for their mum to be involved in helping them in anyway!!)

DS gets £25pw for 6 days. To be fair it takes him less than an hour mon-Fri, and his pay hasn't changed in the 2.5 years he's been doing it. Now he is turning 16 I've wondered if he should ask for a small bump up as I don't think he is hitting minimum wage. £13 seems extremely low.

This is possibly illegal child labour as what you have described appears to breach several restrictions
https://www.gov.uk/child-employment/restrictions-on-child-employment

Children are not allowed to work:

• without an employment permit issued by the education department of the local council, if this is required by local bylaws
• in places like a factory or industrial site (unless as part of work experience)
• during school hours
• before 7am or after 7pm
• for more than one hour before school (unless local bylaws allow it)
• for more than 4 hours without taking a break of at least 1 hour
• in any work that may be harmful to their health, well-being or education
• without having a 2-week break from any work during the school holidays in each calendar year

If they can get there for 7am they should be home by 8:30/8:40, so just enough time!! (school is round the corner!) We hope!

My son did a paper round for similar and saved absolutely tons. He's got about £2k in his account after 3/4 years which he wants to buy a car with (he's 17 now). It only took 15 mins, 5 days a week, and taught him discipline, how to be reliable etc / and he loved the Christmas tips . Let him get on with it - it's a great thing to do.

Wow!

Let's hope they heard wrong! (not sure they did though!) Or who knows, maybe it's £13 per day!!!! (but that seems way too high, so I doubt it!!)

Will they be hot and sweaty from cycling and need a shower? Sorry just thinking of my DS, he always needs to shower in between otherwise he would stink during the day and be super uncomfortable too 🫣

Sounds like a good lesson for them to get all the info next time 🙂

They've wanted a job since age 8 and had 13th birthday last week, they were so happy they r old enough for a job now! They can't get a job anywhere else at this age really (well we can't find anywhere anyway!)

We hadn't thought that through! 😉 Thanks!

Is it five or seven days a week ? If it’s £13 for five or seven days a week, I wouldn’t let my child do it as it’s exploitative, £13 per shift seems too high. I’d get him to double check before starting,

https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/1548/economics/wages-for-paper-rounds/

How much does a 13 year old Paper Boy make?

For a schoolchild under 16 years of age. A decent paper round would be something earning an hourly rate of £3.00. If your round takes 45mins a day – 6 days a week – 4.5 hours a week. Look to get at least £13.50.30 Apr 2017

Mine started testing video games for money at 13….there is a hub for it now called playtester.

No cycling in the dark on icy roads for pennies.