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| Thread ID: 113164 | 2010-10-07 22:49:00 | What was £30 worth in 1981? | jareemon (5207) | PC World Chat |
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| 1142565 | 2010-10-11 06:20:00 | Have fun and WEEP! :crying www.rbnz.govt.nz |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1142566 | 2010-10-11 07:38:00 | £30. | legod (4626) | ||
| 1142567 | 2010-10-11 08:35:00 | by my calculations: NZD$335.74 | SoniKalien (792) | ||
| 1142568 | 2010-10-11 10:09:00 | Could you have bought a ZX Spectrum for £30 back then? Them were the days....manicminer, jet set willy, horace and the spiders.... |
legod (4626) | ||
| 1142569 | 2010-10-11 10:56:00 | Inflation is interesting in so far as when I was going to primary school in 1950 at age 8 or so I used to get 2/- for pocket money per week for which I used to mow the grass and do hedge clipping. My Dad was earning 20 pounds per week. He had a wife who was not working as such but used to take in sewing at times. I had two younger siblings and they are still alive. In 1950 I used to go to Saturday matinees and see Roy Rogers etc. For 9 pence you got to see the movie and ice cream and a packet of Jaffas or Aniseed balls etc. You walked to the Cinema and back. So my pocket money was 2 shillings per week and there were 20 shillings to a pound and Dad earned 20 pounds per week so go work it out for yourself. Later I started work and was earning 5 pounds per week in 1958. 5 shillings would get you enough Shark and Spud for our Family of 5. I know as I used to cycle there and back and buy same every now and then. The last job I had I started in 1996 at $10 per hour and when I left I was on $13.50 in 2009. |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1142570 | 2010-10-13 06:39:00 | Using the RBNZ inflation Calculator,as per the link BM so kindly provided: www.rbnz.govt.nz A basket of goods that cost $1.00 in the first quarter of 1967 (we decimalised on 10 July 1967), in the third quarter of 2009 dollars would cost a modest $32.61. At decimalisation, I was on a modest $4,400 as a first year Flt Lt in the RNZAF. somehow I don't think a Flt Lt on appointment is paid $143,500 exclusive of allowances today. I didn't know how well off I was. |
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