How much pocket money for 8 year old

[ClaireFromWork]

We're thinking about giving Dd pocket money. Thinking of £3.50 a week but she needs to do certain jobs (make bed, empty dishwasheretc)

What's the going rate?

We give £2, but not sure what his mates get...

My DD can 'earn' up to £2.50 a week. We don't expect her to earn anything for chores, but we do expect her to be self sufficient.

In our house, she earns 10p a day for getting herself ready in the morning, 10p a day for good behaviour, 60p a week for tidying her bedroom and then a 50p bonus for no black crosses.

£1 a day for good behaviour / helping with chores.

We give DS half his age. He's been getting £3.50 since his 7th birthday. His pocket money is not linked to chores. He does jobs around the house (feeds cats, clears table, helps with laundry) but he gets pocket money because it's part of growing up, NOT as payment.

He writes his "in goings" and "out goings" in a double entry ledger (yes, really!) which helps enormously with his writing, his maths as well as helping him get a sense of saving. He enjoys doing it to! He has a lockable cash box to keep it all in.

He is allowed to spend his money as he wishes. He buys sweets, comics, presents for us, but mostly he likes to SAVE and make trips to museum shops!

His uncles and aunts and grandparents often give him the odd fiver here and there too. He recently saved £30 and bought a Lego Star Wars thing, he also buys Mothers and Fathers day presents (very cute).

it depends on what you buy my dd is 8 and gets about £15 a week but its £2 here, a fiver there, i mean a kids magazine is 2.99 and that's a cheap one. Since her dad pays the mighty sum of 19.71 a week she gets most of it to spend at the post office, pens pencils, wee toys sometimes the kids go into the cafe and buy hot chocolates there are 4 girls between 8 and 10 who hang about together, but we live in a wee village where everyone knows them

Ouch, that sounds high omfg but then I suppose that incorporates stuff you'd buy anyway. My parents gave me less, but still bought me things so I guess it added up to something similar.

I'd like to make sure my kids know the value of money and that it doesn't rain pennies so that they could be really thrilled with anything that is more expensive than usual. I'd give an 8 year old £3 a week but since a week is an age for an 8 year old I might break it down into £1 every two days instead, so £3.50 a week.

Dd gets about a fiver a week, but tbh we tend to shove it in her piggy bank and then still buy the sweets, comics etc.

The DDs piggy anus get emptied every few weeks as we also tend to put any loose change in there, we have a huge empty pretzel tub, which is now over half full of money totalling almost £500 in saved pocket money

Once it's full, we'll start again and take that lot to the bank

Piggy anus????

Terribly sorry stupid iPhone, that should have said piggy banks

"babylon" thanks for making my day started with a laugh

DD1 is 7.5 and gets nothing so far, still thinking about it...
still laughing at babylon's sentence though