22nd June 2004, 05:21 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by the invisible man
As I have hinted before, it's a simple matter of supply and demand. There is no god given right to a certain salary because someone has a degree.
The clue is in the phrase "commercial archaeology".
There may be no god given right but most commercial opperations operate at a profit and pay graduate trainees a salary they can live on. This makes commercial sense, as you can pick and choose your employees more, thus makeing you more profitable. Archaeology is possibly the only occassion a profession has got together to form a cartel to keep salaries low and profits non existant. Surely a missuse of the word commercial.