3rd January 2006, 02:11 PM
From asking around the office, I gather that last year's crop of graduate civil engineers would expect to start on ?18-20K, and a graduate ecologist on around ?16K. These are consultancy salaries though, and we start our graduate archaeologists within that range. I don't know how these salaries would compare with contracting civil engineers.
I know that APPAG made the comparison with architects, but that doesn't mean that it is a valid one. I have a lot of architects in my family, and I would say that my sister was a lot better trained/qualified/experienced when she qualified than I was. A qualified architect is probably more equivalent to an archaeologist with an MA in a specialist area and two years experience on top of their first degree, and if we are going to compare we should do so at that level.
An architect with a first degree only cannot even call themself an 'architect'.
1man1desk
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I know that APPAG made the comparison with architects, but that doesn't mean that it is a valid one. I have a lot of architects in my family, and I would say that my sister was a lot better trained/qualified/experienced when she qualified than I was. A qualified architect is probably more equivalent to an archaeologist with an MA in a specialist area and two years experience on top of their first degree, and if we are going to compare we should do so at that level.
An architect with a first degree only cannot even call themself an 'architect'.
1man1desk
to let, fully furnished