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?

Its become much much harder for teens to get jobs. Employers don't want them, parents increasingly choose to pay dbs vetted agency babysitters or nursery staff £14 an hour to babysit when the 14 or 15 year old next door would be thrilled with £6/hour

We live rurally, and places are crying out for teens. Both of mine had jobs at 15 - one in a tearoom, and one in a farm shop.

Dd is 16 now and has two jobs. She's still at the tearoom on a Sunday, but also has a job at the cinema.

Sounds like it's a lot harder in city areas.

I'd love to see someone try to get Odeon or Vue to put them on payroll without a National Insurance number (bearing in mind they are also too young to serve at the bar and too young to enter a screen showing an 18 rated film). I needed one to get a job in 2001 at 16! DH worked at 14 but it was dodgy cash in hand at a garden centre.

I used to do school holiday childcare for a family friend but again they wanted me to be 16.

We give £50 plus clubs, sports lessons, Spotify subscription, dinner money, phone and essential clothes on top. He saves quite a bit of it.

£50 per month pocket money and. £50 clothing excluding shoes and coats, telephone and transport, we live in London and DD seems to struggle to make it last until the end of the month. Sometimes top up with pet setting and watering plants, etc. Need her to advertise her services more.

14 yo DD gets £275 plus we pay for SIM card and top up school dinner money as and when (usually takes packed lunch)

this includes £7.50 p/w train fare to her therapy session and £6p/w for her CrossFit class.
She covers all her expenses. Clothes/make up/toiltries/socialising/spotify/kobo/hair cuts.

we will provide a suitable winter coat and all education related expenses.

amount has steadily increased since starting secondary school with her taking on more responsibilities for purchasing items as money increased. She budgets very sensibly and has savings.

we arrived at the amount working out an estimate of average monthly costs

Currently £40 pcm but that will rise to £100 when she turns 16. She'll be responsible for a lot more of her own outgoings on that and should hopefully help prepare her for uni spending.

My teens get £45 a month but this is their full allowance that covers their clothes as well as social lives. We pay £6 a month SIM cards plus bus fare to school/college.

The job market it hard for teens. It's hard for everybody so they are competing with uni graduates and school leavers. My oldest got a job post GCSEs and was then looking for something full time after finishing A levels back in June. He has an apprenticeship now which is great but it has taken a lot of applications and interviews and he was getting rejected from min wage retail work that he had 2 years experience in. Obvs doesn't get an allowance any more!

My 17 year old hasn't even looked. Mental health shit plus neurodiverse shit so I'm supporting sorting that stuff out before they even think about getting a job. They do volunteer once a week though so being a useful member of society!

Youngest is 14 so not thought about a job yet.

Feeling super stingy as my 15 year old gets £6 a week, £7 really but save a pound a week to buy Christmas presents for the family. He only really buys donuts and the odd thing in a game.
He earned £250 in the summer doing odd jobs for neighbours and will probably get a Saturday job through DH in the summer.

Dd 14 gets £50/ month and we pay for phone, schoolunches and most but not all clothing. She also has a Saturday job related to her sport.

DS 17 gets £120/ month and as above but he’s at college in town and everything is much more expensive. We pay for his bus pass as well and driving lessons. He’s costing us a fortune! He also works as a ref and gets paid well! That’s money saving for his gap year.

Dd 16 and ds 17 get a measly £20. They don’t go out or buy their own clothes or toiletries. I pay their mobile bill and clubs.
I’d always said that I would increase it when they start going out socially, but it’s looking like they’ll have at least a PT job when it comes to it (dd16 will be able to get a paid job in the 6th form). They each have a lot of savings as we give them a generous amount for birthdays.

The people I know who did this - I'm in my 40s - were doing post-16 vocational qualifications in office work, they weren't doing it whilst still at school. I've never worked in an office which even took on work experience kids under 16, as insurance etc makes things complicated.

Though, tbf, some of my friends were doing evening shifts in a call-centre after school when they were 15 cold-calling people about double glazing, which doesn't feel like it should have been legal.