21st July 2009, 10:53 PM
Well I dont work in Sweden so couldn't tell you what you could buy with such a salary....other than the price of beer.
I was in the Systembolaget (the Swedish state alcohol shop) in Stromstad last week (just across the Norwegian border from where I have been working recently) and I got 8 half litre bottles of Bishops Finger for 150 kr. Thats about ?11.50 (or ?1.45 per bottle). Last time I was in Morrisons in the UK the same was being sold for ?1.60 a bottle. So at least your ?24000 in Sweden could buy you more or less the same amount of UK beer....
I think the real problem with Swedish archaeology (and I talk to a lot of Swedish archaeologists working in Norway) is that there just aint that many jobs in archaeology in Sweden and the majority of jobs there are, are in the Swedish equivalant of local government.
I would guess that this particular discussion is not so much a question of salary per se, but more a question of which point on the salary scale you start someone who is coming into a local government job possessing a minimum of a Masters degree (virtually impossible to get a job in Scandinavia with anything less than a Masters). I would have thought that even in the UK, a local government job asking for the minimum level of a Masters degree would not be paying less than ?24,000....I could of course be wrong there....
With peace and consolation hath dismist, And calm of mind all passion spent...
I was in the Systembolaget (the Swedish state alcohol shop) in Stromstad last week (just across the Norwegian border from where I have been working recently) and I got 8 half litre bottles of Bishops Finger for 150 kr. Thats about ?11.50 (or ?1.45 per bottle). Last time I was in Morrisons in the UK the same was being sold for ?1.60 a bottle. So at least your ?24000 in Sweden could buy you more or less the same amount of UK beer....
I think the real problem with Swedish archaeology (and I talk to a lot of Swedish archaeologists working in Norway) is that there just aint that many jobs in archaeology in Sweden and the majority of jobs there are, are in the Swedish equivalant of local government.
I would guess that this particular discussion is not so much a question of salary per se, but more a question of which point on the salary scale you start someone who is coming into a local government job possessing a minimum of a Masters degree (virtually impossible to get a job in Scandinavia with anything less than a Masters). I would have thought that even in the UK, a local government job asking for the minimum level of a Masters degree would not be paying less than ?24,000....I could of course be wrong there....
With peace and consolation hath dismist, And calm of mind all passion spent...