Pay: an analysis

[Tile man]

As I understand it University departments have to justify pay increases through their human resources departments (as BAJR HOST said earlier on this thread) For Local government pay increases of the sort we want would require re-grading those jobs within those authorities, as you observed earlier in this thread. I can think of one (alleged) case in the last few years where a regarding was recommended and then not implemented for some dubious reasons amounting to ?it would have cost too much?

In terms of the numbers paying at or above ?300 PW as far as I can tell from OUTWAGE: there are 9 organisations (17%) paying that for ?experienced archaeologists? For 1 that is explicitly London weighted pay, and I imagine for UCL as well. The top three are the environmental agency and 2 consultancies, so I am guessing that for those ?experienced archaeologist? means something other than PIFA. This leaves English Heritage, which is national government, and possibly one county council and 2 commercial organisations in that bracket ? so I?m afraid I have to disagree with your statement about ?plenty paying at these rates?

Pay rates will progress only as fast as organisations feel that they will not go bust because they are paying significantly more than their competitors.