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!)

I agree - though I don't think they r bothered!
£13, even for a whole week, sounds a lot when u r 13!!!

Wow! Well done to your son! Thats brilliant!!!! ,👍👍

Oh my goodness!! Thank you so much for this!! DC loooves gaming and has been looking for something like this!

I'll let them start the paper round because exercise is good and they found it themself 😉! But I'll let them know about this in a month or two! Sounds brilliant!

My ds was offered to cover a friend's paper round over the summer and he was going to get £45 for 9 days. He says the run takes about 45mins on his bike, including sorting the papers at the shop.

£10 a week when I was a teenager (30 odd years ago) so if it’s £13 per week now then that’s ridiculously low.

I was paid £15 a week for a paper round 25 years ago! I would definitely check this!

It does seem insanely low OP.

I got £8.50 a week in 1991-1993 for 7 mornings a week (Sunday required a return trip to the shop to fill up again as the papers were so thick!)

And bizarrely, every now and then I dream about the road I used to deliver on. It was a long hill and I did 34 houses every day.

In those days I had to be at the shop at 6am, I was home, showered and eating cornflakes by 7.15.

I was also paid that 30 years ago. That can't be right!

Surely he misheard and if us £30 a week?

Pretty sure it’ll be a daily rate if the round will take that long. My godchild does a paper round each morning - approx 22 papers, which takes 20-25 minutes home-to-home. Plenty of time for shower and breakfast before leaving for school. Papers are heavier on weekends and a few more houses. Earns total of £52 per week.
Mon-Fri - £6 per day
Saturday - £12
Sunday - £10

Weight of weekend papers would mean delivering 1/2 and returning to the shop to collect and deliver the rest. Parent drives them on a weekend to save time.

During school holidays they sometimes do double round and earn £105 per week (other round has more papers on a Saturday so is a bit more money).

Definitely check if it’s a daily rate. If not, you could ask at the Post Office if they need any paper boys/girls, or to go on their waiting list. Lots of my GS friends do rounds and is how he got the job. Christmas is his favourite time as always gets approx £200 total Christmas Box from customers.

Well, my son had a paper round- and Mr P. the newsagent had a theory that his past papergirls and boys all were successful, they had drive and nous, rather than just wanting to be handed money by their parents.

I think he may be right- My son isn't a millionaire {yet!} but he has his own house {mortgage} and works diligently.

Good luck to your son, and hopefully the pay will be better than £13 a week. {Can he find another newsagents in that case?}

It's not going to be £30

In 1986 I got 20p a day!

£15 a week for Monday-sun mornings and quick round after school Mon-sat 30 years ago so would expect it to be a lot more these days

My DS had a round 4 yrs ago. Took him 20 mins, roughly 30 papers, he got £5.50 per round. £13 for 5 days seems very low.

Well at least the OP's child is getting fresh air and exercise. They seem to be independent and have a great work ethic too.

Edit: Definitely the Christmas Box is lovely! {If your son posts papers completely through the letterbox and is on time every day, this pays off at Christmas! }

I remember my paper round with nostalgia- in the lashing rain they weren't fun, but on a summer's morning they were lovely.
Dogs...He meeds to be careful to NEVER put his fingers through the letterbox to push papers through.

A postwoman had her hand badly savaged by pushing letters through a letterbox {the ones with bristles to keep draughts out, but make it hard to push papers and letters through.}- a Golden Retriever dragged her hand in- I heard it happen, the screams, and she needed surgery on the deep tears in her hand.

Dogs are more of a concern nowadays, I think.

I liked my paper round, and loved the money!

That's a terrible rate of pay- My brother had one in 1986, it took under an hour, and he got £4 for one day a week! {a weekly paper} - London though.

I was paid £30 a week in 2007-2009. 5 days a week, after school. That was directly from a distribution company though, rather than a local newsagent. Round took roughly 1.5 hours (but that was walking as couldn't ride a bike and balance the bag!)

Agree, Christmas tips were the best!

Sunday papers weight a ton!
Plus mean little letterboxes - the ones with 'bristles' to keep out draughts we called ''Fanny letterboxes'' and they were a total pain..

Lovely when one found houses with large letterboxes.

A little dog waiting to savage the papers sometimes happened.. One thing..we delivered in a wealthy area - yet the large 19th Century houses gave less of a Christmas Box than people in the more modest homes.

Some people were incredibly generous.

Mine was Yorkshire.

One Sunday, windy and wet, my Sunday load - Observer and Sunday Times, mainly {needing two trips back to newsagent} slipped off my bike rack and into a gutter.

I delivered them anyway, and the newsagent was cross, as so many customers complained that their papers were wet and gritty.

People who took the Daily Mail and 'Sun' tipped the most.

It still seems to be a bad rate of pay...and probably very hilly as well?

I did a paper round in South London from about 2007-2011; originally £15 per week but went up to £25 per week (when some more houses were added!). This probably took 45 mins - 1 hour each morning (on a bike). I did Monday - Saturday.

£13 really doesn't seem like very much!

Your son or daughter sound really driven and independent..Well done to them!