40 years ago today: Computer Weekly January 24 1974

It’s always interesting to see how salaries have changed. So 40 years ago, British Gas was looking for a senior project leader, with a starting salary of £3700 a year. In today’s money that’s about £32,678. While there’s a bit of a spread in salaries for current senior project leader vacancies, it looks like £40-50k is about average.

The National Museum of Computing has a full copy of every print edition of Computer Weekly since our first in September 1966, and is now digitising the archive.

This is a selection of 10 pages from the January 24 1974 edition of Computer weekly. Click here to go to Page 1 >>

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