[Vella Gonzaga]

Remember when you were paid in cash?​

Remember when you were paid in cash every week or fortnight? Thursday was payday in most places back in the day, and the word would spread like wildfire when the pays were ready for collection. Then, Aussies would line up outside the pay office window, eagerly awaiting a little brown envelope filled with cash. Oh, the satisfaction of holding that money in your hands. No waiting for bank transfers or dealing with online transactions; just good old-fashioned paper money. When did you get your last pay envelope? Tell us here.

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[Ricki]

Remember when you were paid in cash?​

Remember when you were paid in cash every week or fortnight? Thursday was payday in most places back in the day, and the word would spread like wildfire when the pays were ready for collection. Then, Aussies would line up outside the pay office window, eagerly awaiting a little brown envelope filled with cash. Oh, the satisfaction of holding that money in your hands. No waiting for bank transfers or dealing with online transactions; just good old-fashioned paper money. When did you get your last pay envelope? Tell us here.

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57 years ago working in a bank. We always looked forward to payday in that little brown envelope, all $35. worth.

 

[John58]

I remember 1979 I worked at the South Australian meat works we would have an armoured truck roll up on Friday at 12:00 and pay us. If you were paid incorrectly you went up to the pay office advised them and you could come back at 4:00pm and get any other money owed to you. As it was cash and paid at lunchtime there were a lot of card games going on and some people would loose a lot of their pay.

 

[featherfour]

Oh wow yes. I only worked at the aerosol factory for a few months, but I was so excited to line up and get my little brown envelope. I think in my next job I was paid by cheque for a while, and would take it downstairs to the bank, which was in the same building. I think later my pay went directly into my bank account.

 

[Big G]

1972 I think. Been cheques or direct debit since then,

 

[Loubeauxarts]

I was 14 when I left school and got my first job back in 1967. I recall my first pay packet. I grossed $20.00, from which I paid I believe $1.90 tax and netted $18.10. It was a fortune to me back then. I gave my mum $6.00 for keep, bought my weekly Train ticket that was another $1.80 and I had the mind boggling sum of $10.30 for myself. Amazing what that could buy in the 1960s

 

[Michelle Sc]

Remember when you were paid in cash?​

Remember when you were paid in cash every week or fortnight? Thursday was payday in most places back in the day, and the word would spread like wildfire when the pays were ready for collection. Then, Aussies would line up outside the pay office window, eagerly awaiting a little brown envelope filled with cash. Oh, the satisfaction of holding that money in your hands. No waiting for bank transfers or dealing with online transactions; just good old-fashioned paper money. When did you get your last pay envelope? Tell us here.

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Arrived in Australia Easter 1965, had my first job in less than a week, and was never ever paid in cash, neither in my previous job back home (Paris). Was highly amused when told : we pay you every fortnight (as in not weekly) ... being used to be paid monthly back home.

 

[Gsr]

I remember how exciting it was to receive my pay in cash, in the little brown envelope in my first three jobs, from 1970 to 1981. My husband also got paid in cash up until the early 1980s. We lived in a country town so it must have taken longer for direct debit wages to take on there. I still have a couple of the envelopes with the pay details written on the front in my memory box that the grandkids enjoy having a look through.

 

[RFG]

Can't remember the last, but my first pay envelope I do remember and it was $14.73 for a 45 hour week. Weekly train ticket was $2.00 & board was $4.00 weekly. You even had enough left to add to a saving account.