No allowance. We were to do chores and earned credit toward a big thing. one example I remember well is about a year of saving for TVs, and we didn’t even make it halfway to the target amount ($100 each was the target, this was mid-90s) so I assume we were making peanuts for each week’s chores.. needless to say neither of us were enthusiastic about it..

At 16 I got a full time job and my parents worked with the school to allow me to leave for work in the afternoon. The next year they didn’t feel like messing with it, so I was emancipated (given legal control over, and responsibility for, myself) and could show up whenever I want and leave whenever I want. That worked well, and my senior year I was on campus for a total of 1.5 hours a day (only needed 2.5 elective credits that year, but they wouldn’t let me take them all in one semester because “reasons”, so I took a cooking class right before lunch both semesters) the rest of the time I was either sleeping or working.