How much should a paper round pay?

[Edith1]

My DS, who is 13 has been offered a paper round and he is desperate to earn some money. I think the pay is awful. It is 156 papers to be delivered once a week and they are paying £4.68 week!! My nephew delivers 116 papers over 6 days a week and gets paid £24 week. Anybody got any experience or knowledge of paper round pay?

That does sound low - my DS was doing a paper round a year ago (and I did it when he was away on a couple of occasions) - it was about £5 for 50 papers, took about an hour.

My son does a morning round Monday- Friday. Is out of the house for 45 minutes and delivers about 25 papers (they also have to label their own papers up). He gets paid £22 for the 5 days. We're in Surrey so that might be why it's a bit higher than some.

Our paperboy delivers the local weekly paper and collects money as he delivers. The paper costs £1.80 delivered free to the customer and a lot of people give him £2, so for 100 papers he earns £10 in tips. He also posts a little Xmas card through the door the week before Xmas and gets £££s of Xmas tips the week after (his mum drives round with him to take care of the money). This is on top of the 27p he earns per paper delivered.

Anyone can start their own round if they get enough people interested in having their paper delivered, established rounds are very sought after and either passed around families or sold.

That's low.
ds did a massive round, about 8 yrs go - I think it was 183 papers, from memory, but he's earn about £13 for that. It did depend on how many leaflets each paper had.
Don't get me wrong, it was rubbish when you consider there'd be a couple of hours stuffing the leaflets when they arrived, then - because it was about 2 miles from out house and a massive amount of papers - I used to drive him there. Then he'd deliver them all then one of us would fetch him - it was rubbish pay.
Your ds's is rubbish though.

I didn't know such things still existed! No papers delivered round here for donkeys years.

How long would it take him? Hourly wage under 18 is £4.15.

I left my paper round for a p/t job after the christmas tips this year - got paid £18.50 a week for the morning round (took me about 45 minutes). I think I'd have loved £24 at 13, good on him for wanting it.

3p a leaflet is not good.
My DS does a monthly free-paper delivery and gets 9p a leaflet (its about 10 pages long), and 1p extra for every extra flier that he has to deliver.

That’s ridiculous! I remember got paid £5 for delivering under 100 papers when I was 13 (and I’m 58 next May)!!! Tell him to hold out for £20+

@BigSandyBalls2015

How long would it take him? Hourly wage under 18 is £4.15.

I agree that it depends on how long it takes to deliver. You can deliver more papers in less time if the houses are close together than if they are spread out.

But there is also no minimum wage for anyone under school leaving age.

My DS does a Saturday round, about 10 papers, takes half an hour or so because they are very bulky (nearly all Times and Telegraph) and have to be split to post them through some of the letterboxes, houses well-spaced apart. Gets £3. So that does seem low.

DS2 does a paper round 7 days a week and gets £24.

156 papers to be delivered once a week

I think I'd expect £15-£20 for that. Thinking back to when Big-DS had a once-a-month paper round & about 90 to deliver, 8 yrs ago.

Until 3m ago, DS got £8 to deliver about 52 papers each Sunday (big heavy ones, took him 1.25-1.5 hours and 3 trips to collect from shop).

13yo DS just got £42 for the week, that's
5x 40 minute weekday deliveries
1 hr helping to mark papers in shop (£6 separate)
45 minutes Saturday delivery