Pocket Money

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How much pocket money do you pay your teen?

I used give my son (16) £5 for doing bins, £5 for hoover downstairs £5 for upstairs, and £5 for good behavior. £20 to cut the grass.
Well started this arrangement start of 2017, he did the grass a few times, and bins. A couple of weeks with "good" behavior. Hoover about 2....nothing for past few months! So now he gets nothing!
Although I give him some spending money for school holidays to try encourage him to get out.

Well he can't be very interested in earning money then - that is potentially a lot of savings to be had! Things like taking the bins out/hoovering would not be rewarded with payment in my opinion, they are just part of the household chores which everyone in the house helps with. Good behaviour should also be expected, not paid for! Washing the car, cutting the grass etc are bigger chores which I would pay for. My 13 yr old gets £25 a month pocket money, any extra he has to earn by doing jobs such as the ones listed. He's also getting a paper round in the new year.

I agree with Bluebell
Mine are all expected to do jobs around the house because they live here. It isn't related to pocket money.
My 16 yr old gets £16 per month. this is a 'how long is a piece of string' question on MN though - you get posters who can't believe there are teens who can possibly survive on so little, and others who are pretty stunned at the £££ some dc are given each month.
Also depends what you expect them to use it for. (phones, transport, clothes, toiletries, etc. or not).

My 17yo currently gets £400 a month. But this isn't as ludicrous as it sounds; it's my way of teaching him to budget. So it pays for his dinner money, his phone contract, his driving lessons (!) and to go out at weekends. Will probably reduce the monthly amount when he's passed his test.

I’ve just increased my DS 13 to 25 a month. He also gets some from DGPs. He has to pay for his phone contract. It’s not dependent on jobs and he doesn’t get extra at holiday time. He’s also expected to pay for things like birthday and Christmas presents. He saves a lot.

Dd (16) gets £35 per month. She doesn't have to do jobs apart from the basic tidy up after herself, put plates in dishwasher after a meal/empty dishwasher at the weekend/make me a cup of tea because she's out of the house from 6.15am - 7.45pm on schooldays then has homework & has school on Saturday mornings.

Ds (13) gets £20 per month