15th April 2005, 11:54 AM
Deepdigger, perhaps I did not make myself clear. My point was that pay for someone ENTERING the field of work, with no experience, is generally round about that of the rates advertised for diggers. I only have to look through the sits vac in our local papers to see plenty of full time jobs paying around 8000 - 12000. I then observed that the problem seemed to be that it never goes up after that, the rates then fall well below other walks of life, a point which others seem to have made as well. Thus someone with 3, 5 or 10 years exerience is on pretty much the same money. Higher grade jobs on BAJR seem to offer very low salaries indeed for the experience and qualifications required.
If archaeology charged what it is really worth it would be part of the development costs, sanme as any other new legislation, and will ultimately be passed on (by the developer) to the end user.
If archaeology charged what it is really worth it would be part of the development costs, sanme as any other new legislation, and will ultimately be passed on (by the developer) to the end user.