Pocket money for 15 year old

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How much do people tend to give and is it weekly or monthly?
And do they need to do anything at home/ school to earn it?

£50 per month. Doesn’t have to do chores but has to study.

15 year olds should have a job!

Most 15 year olds can’t get a job without their NI number - you can’t where I live anyway! My sons got £30 a month at that age, expected to save some and help out when asked.

Ds 16 can't get a job. Tried everywhere.

£60 per month. Has set jobs to do round the house.

£60 a month and phone contract on top, nothing required to earn it. She spends wisely and budgets well.

Majority of places won’t take under 16 year olds on due to insurance reasons.
There is also a very small number of jobs for those that are actually 16.

DD15 gets £15 per week. Phone on top.

Very difficult for 16 year olds to get Saturday jobs never mind 15 yos.
Paper & Milk rounds have become pretty rare too.

Being nosy what are they spending that on?
Does it include lunches at school?

Almost impossible, until they turn 16. Most places won't take them on for insurance reasons.

I’d like to know this as well. I give my 15 year old son £5-10 a week at the moment. I fund phone school dinners clothes etc

Says who? If OP wants to support her child, she can.

Mine is similar £20 per month plus money for lunches etc.
But £20 per month / £5 per week just doesn't seem a lot but at the same I'm not sure I want mine blowing £40 a month on junk.

My nearly 15 year old gets £92 a month now, but that includes everything really: school lunches if she wants them (often takes packed lunch), pocket money, toiletries, haircuts, clothes (except school uniform), trips to cinema etc with friends, the odd train…I had a ‘budget’ like that throughout secondary school and felt like it was a good transition to moving out and uni. She still wants a job though, though not much round here till they’re nearer 17.

Very few places are going to hire a 15 year old.

@AnotherBrightSunrise I'm curious how you ended up at £92 per month?

My 15yo gets her child benefit, so £100pm. A trip to the cinema and a McDonalds is £20. I got a tenner a week in the 1990s!

@Needspaceforlego It started a couple of years ago with a rough calculation of £40 for clothes, £12 for hygiene/haircuts, £20 for pocket money, then when she was managing that well I added £20 for lunches. I don’t make her stick to those amounts, that’s more a guide. She manages to save some too, and seems to be good and buying and selling clothes on vinted, so it seems to be working well…she is motivated to manage it well.

£30 a month for jobs. Almost never done though.

300 a term on extra curriculars.

Also small contribution because voluntary work supporting youngsters in one of the organisations she works with impacts on her ability to get a Saturday job.

She works long shifts at festivals from time to time and can make £300 in a long weekend.

My DS was earning between £60 and £90 per week at the age of 13 onwards. By 16 he was on about £120 as he got paid more.

Its not very expensive or difficult to take a referee course and it gets them plenty of fresh air and exercise. Really good money too. Whilst his friends got jobs as pot washers etc he had 3 x the money for a few hours over a weekend. Purchased his own car before he even got to 17.

Minimum age to be a referree in England is 14, Scotland 16.
I'm actually surprised England is as low as just 14

I used to give DD about £150 a month - included lunch money and school travel (although I generally paid for her bus pass as it wasn't expensive) she wasn't a spender and accumulated about £1000 which has gone to Uni with her.

Ahh i thought he was 13. OK 14. thanks

Sorry I didn't mean that to come across as I was having a pop at you.
Refereeing isn't a job I'd have thought of for a young person. But I am genuinely surprised that kids as young as 14 can do it.

I'd been thinking the Saturday jobs that many shops had in the 90s. So few shops operate like that and other young people jobs paperboy, milk round just aren't things any more.

I had friends at 16 / 17 who collected glasses in working mens clubs but those aren't as busy as they once were either.