6th November 2010, 12:36 AM
Jack Wrote:This is a very poignant point at the moment in the commercial world, combined with the 'skills drain' caused by a lack of work and many experienced diggers realising that they can earn far more dirving dustbin lorries etc.
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I've heard this sort of thing before and it isn't actually true. There seems to be this myth that anyone who works on a construction site gets paid far more than Archaeologists. In fact groundworkers usually get paid less than ?7.00 per hour and quite often it's the national minimum wage.
So yes, unbelieveable but true, there are people out there getting worse pay than Archaeologists.