Pocket money and chores

[KindaPied]

How much do you give your teen per chore? Do you break it down by type of chore or say give £2 each time a chore is completed?

Do you also reward very good behaviour/choices and effort with school work, etc?

How do you organise and give reward pocket money?

Thanks!

I'd suggest a fixed amount based on all weekly allocated chores being completed by "payday".

If you pay by chore they will choose only to do the ones they want. Life isn't like that. In their job they will be expected to do things they don't like coz that's life. Best to learn that now!

Extra chores though should have some kind of appreciation attached to them. Maybe not always financial.

Thank you @DeliciousApples

I agree. I will allocate set chores for each of them and pay a 'weekly wage'.

I'll pay for chores when I get paid for chores! I expect DS to do chores because otherwise I have to do everything and I don't see why I should. Doesn't make it easy but I keep pocket money unrelated to chores for this reason.

I don't. They get a set amount per month and are expected to help as needed eg cooking, dishwasher, putting their washing away

I used the recommended amount for a foster child as my base rate = £8 a week, not linked to chores

She was frustrated that she was too young to work and earn her own money so I told her if she got a voluntary job I would pay her £5 an hour (rough equivalent of what I got in my first job). So she does 3hrs in a charity shop in a Saturday morning.

I award her for grades as she works extremely hard, a £1 a grade for end of half term assessment which adds up as she tends to get 9s.

She does not do chores in terms time, she's autistic and works hard in all other areas of her life and needs lots of downtime, she is lovely and respectful and a dream to bring up. She knows how to do chores though and does them in the holidays.

I pay for everything else she needs phone is £3.99 a month, Spotify we both use £16.

She uses her spends for putting into her SIPP and investing and short term savings, and her time with her friends so cinema trips and coffee at Costa.

My teenager has set chores, if she does them all she gets 20 euros a month. If she doesn't do them all (without good reason, like being ill, or being away) then I dock some of her "pay"

On the flip side, if I'm late giving her her pocket money she charges me interest (she looked up the law in my country that says if an employer is late paying wages they have to pay a set amount of interest on the wage per day its late - I was late two weeks once, not again!)

"Standard" chores are part of being a member of the household and you don't get paid for them (getting paid suggests they are optional and you can opt not to do them if you don't need the money).

Occasional "Non-standard" chores e.g. decorating, gardening would be optional and paid at a minimum wage for time taken type rate.