4th May 2008, 11:52 AM
I haven't had a chance yet to take in all of the report (and maybe there is something in the small print I would find fault with), but first impressions suggest it has hit the target with its findings, although implementation seems to be a more distant process....
Some initial thoughts.
The mode figures for comparable salaries suggest that the minima for IFA grade PIFA should be about 17000 pa, AIFA 22000 pa and MIFA 28000. THis would equate to local government grades 4, 6 and PO1. The starnge 'deja vu' moment about those figures is that the Manning report on archaeological salaries commissioned by the the Museum of London in 1982, arrived at the exact same local government grades. So 25 years on we realise that all along we have had a pre-exisiting comaprison exercise the industry has not taken advantage of.
My contention has always been that regrading is a more important issue in archaeological wages than pay alone and hope that this report will aid local authority managers who support the need for regrading of archaeological posts. As both IFA and BAJR use the local authority model to underpin their wage minima, non local authority wages should also increase as a result of successful regrading.
I wonder if also the benchmarking document shouldn't form the basis for the BAJR submission to the APPAG working party. It says most things I want to be heard....
Some initial thoughts.
The mode figures for comparable salaries suggest that the minima for IFA grade PIFA should be about 17000 pa, AIFA 22000 pa and MIFA 28000. THis would equate to local government grades 4, 6 and PO1. The starnge 'deja vu' moment about those figures is that the Manning report on archaeological salaries commissioned by the the Museum of London in 1982, arrived at the exact same local government grades. So 25 years on we realise that all along we have had a pre-exisiting comaprison exercise the industry has not taken advantage of.
My contention has always been that regrading is a more important issue in archaeological wages than pay alone and hope that this report will aid local authority managers who support the need for regrading of archaeological posts. As both IFA and BAJR use the local authority model to underpin their wage minima, non local authority wages should also increase as a result of successful regrading.
I wonder if also the benchmarking document shouldn't form the basis for the BAJR submission to the APPAG working party. It says most things I want to be heard....