How much pocket money for a 17 year old please!??

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I pay my son's mobile 40 pm and gym membership 20pm should he get cash also!???

He should get a job tbf!
My mother paid nothing once I hit 15 other than toiletries.
I wanted luxuries, I paid for them. Gym and phone are luxuries.

Lol he's at college we live in rural area so job not a option tbh!

ds is 16 and still at school. I pay his phone and he gets £20 per month

Mine gets £50 on top of his wages from his part time job, but only because his job is infrequent hours.

I pay mobile phone (under 18s can't sign a contract) but he earns good money in his part-time job so can take over the contract when it expires just before his 19th birthday.

My DD1 started working part time at weekends once she was 16. She worked in McDonalds and then worked extra hours in school holidays. I still paid her mobile phone contract.

Now she's at uni and unable to work as her course has lots of placements so she only works when she comes home. I still pay her phone for her plus help her out with fuel costs when she is really broke.

But mostly I think at that age there must be something they can do to earn money.

If he is at college and unable to work as you are rural then he earns his pocket money at home. He empties the bins, cuts the grass, does the hovering etc. Don't just hand him cash.

Depends on how often he goes out and what going out entails. Does he have access to a car?

DD is 17 and has a part time job, I drive her here and there, but I don't give her any money she earns her own

Are you saying he gets £60 a month?
In which case I would say that is plenty, mine get £45 and I sometimes top up their payg mobiles a tenner.

Work. Or pay him for jobs at home. Mowing grass washing cars cleaning windows. Unskilled tasks that you may a handy man for. Set a basic hourly rate. Then he uses it towards driving lessons so he can go out to work independently. That would be my plan anyway.

I'm rural and had a job at 16, it can be done. But it relied on my mum driving me there every weekend and some random hours during the week.

What jobs do you suggest are available to 17 year olds? Especially those who are studying full time?

Our dd gets £30 per month allowance and whatever else she earns from her very infrequent babysitting. The sooner she clocks that she has a lot more money by sacrificing some of her nights out to babysitting the better.

I live rurally-how does that stop them having a job? All the teens here work, often in the village pubs or in the nearest town. Parents have to do some taxi runs to drop off/pick up until they can drive, but they still work.

I give my 16 year old £20 per week. Out of this she is expected to save half (to go towards uni in 2 years time) and she buys all her own clothes, gifts for friends, socialising etc. The only things I pay for are her phone and school/college equipment.

My son (at uni) gets £40 per week to go towards his food. he pays everything else himself.

I give my 17 year old his share of the child benefit and some money for walking the dog ( although he rarely does it ! ). This amounts to £100 per month. he also has a job and earns about £200 per month. We pay for his mobile phone and gym membership also. he buys all his own clothes / shoes / pays for entertainment etc.

My son cleans at his old school - 4 days a week for about two hours a day. In the holidays he'll also do some deep cleaning.

DS1 gets £50pcm plus his phone paid for. That covers social life and transport. But also, these days I barely seem to buy him clothes as he uses that allowance to buy stuff cheaply on Asos, army surplus or Ebay so it's cheaper than less pocket money and me getting him High Street clothes he wouldn't want to wear. He doesn't have a regular job but does things if they crop up (paper round, feeding neighbours' pets etc.)

My 17 year old works at Superdrug. His best friend works at Primark and his gf works at Homebase. They are all doing A-levels.
My 15 year old works (much less hours) at a local cafe.

My son got £60 pcm plus I funded his phone. He paid for all clothes and shoes (except school uniform) and completely funded his own social life too. He did some babysitting and cat - feeding to supplement this.

Pay what you can afford to but make sure he is taught money management skills by asking him to cover certain costs.

I used to milk goats for pocket money!

If you want him to have a social life then he needs a bit extra? If he genuinely can’t work that is. I think I’d be topping up by another £30 but that’s because we could afford it. It also depends what you can afford

He gets a job
And if you are nice, you help him get there!
No money at that age.

At 17 mine got £100 pm. This was calculated to include some school transport costs plus they had to buy their own toiletries and use it for ad hoc parties, socialising and weekends away. We live rurally and taxi costs fairly add up! It taught them how to budget.

I hadn't factored in transport, phones etc. We pay for his phone (£25 pm), his travel card (£30 pm), and his driving lessons (£100 pm). And DH often gives him the odd £20 here and there for helping him out. Wow, he's really spoilt... but then again he is also a young carer, he stays home and looks after DH when I'm working away from home, so it's nice to be able to treat him.

He can do jobs for you surely