My son's been doing a paper round since January 2019. He was intending to give it up in April this year to prepare for GCSEs, but now he intends to carry on till he starts college in September. When he started there were 15 houses and he was paid £16 a week. A few other houses joined over the following year or so, judging by the cards and tips he got at Christmas it's quite possible this was because they'd heard from neighbours how reliable and punctual he was. Or maybe they had other reasons, but anyway, extra houses. Then over the last couple of weeks there's been a new influx of houses where people obviously want to get their daily news without risking a trip to the shop. He now has 21 houses, so almost a 50% increase on the original figure. Consequently the round takes longer.
What do people reckon, should he ask for a bit more pay? It seems deserved, but then again the shopkeeper is probably finding things hard right now (don't know, at least he's still open) and of course he'd rather have the round at the current pay than be laid off for a new kid at the old price.