Local paper delivery with leaflets - rate?

Raksha

#2 son has taken on a local paper round - it's on our street - 161 papers/leaflets, but fortunatly we live almost smack bang in the middle of the street, so he's broken it down into four lots of 40 and does it this way - only done it the once so far, and it took him and his brother 4 hours +.

Ofcourse, the noggin accepted it without asking how much he'll be paid Can anyone give me any ideas? This week he's delivered the paper, plus the proprty supplement, plus 2 folded A4 leaflets, plus 2 single sheet A4s........

cally6008

each leaflet may have its own pay structure, son should get the info when the papers get dropped off - if need be, you may have to ring up or go see whoever

i used to do 500 houses (down to 450 i think once i worked out all empty houses), good week was £23, bad week was £12 but im going back 15 years (FLIP that makes me sound old .. gulp)

Lethal

Standard rate is about £30 per 1000 leaflets

Stardust

I use to get £10 for the papers and £3-5 more with the leafets depending on how many there were (if any) a week when I did a paper round of about the same size 8 years ago. It use to take my brother and I about 5 hours as well.

Find out how many weeks notice he has to give when he quits - I found out the hard way I had to give 4 weeks.

whitewing

I know someone who delivers the weekly (paid for) local newspaper. He gets £9 for 47 houses. Don't know how long it takes.

Decyfa

When I was younger, used to deliver the free weekly paper on a round of bout 120-130 houses. used to get 5.23 for the papers, and 50p for every set of leaflets once or twice a year used to get £5 for the college prospectus's aswell..those were simple times!..

rev_henry

Stardust wrote: »

I use to get £10 for the papers and £3-5 more with the leafets depending on how many there were (if any) a week when I did a paper round of about the same size 8 years ago. It use to take my brother and I about 5 hours as well.

Find out how many weeks notice he has to give when he quits - I found out the hard way I had to give 4 weeks.

Although remember if he hasn't signed a proper contract, which I suspect a local newsagent won't bother with, he only has to give notice if he's feeling nice.

Kit603

I worked for my local newsagent (for about 4 weeks!) when I was younger and got paid about £6 for 3/4 hours work!

onetomany

my brave boy does one from 630 - 8am 6 times a week and get 12 per week rubish pay bless him x

Lethal

onetomany wrote: »

my brave boy does one from 630 - 8am 6 times a week and get 12 per week rubish pay bless him x

Definitely tell your son to ask for higher wages. Those are patheticly low. He is getting just over 1 pound an hour...

ezzmo

My son delivers the local free paper, he deliveres almost 350 papers and gets £7.50 and if there is the same amounts of leaflets he gets an extra £1.20 for these! He has only had leaflets once, his round takes him between 3 and 4 hours as it incorporates 3 scemes and one main street, delivering to every house. I think its hellishly low.:mad: