13th March 2006, 07:26 PM
Hi Tile Man, to reply to your earlier question I think 300 is a good basic wage for a site assistant (just as Kevin is suggesting in fact) as long as there is scope for paying experienced workers more than that (which is a different discussion). That is in fact what my employer pays as a starting wage, so you can add another one to Kevin's survey (we don't appear in Outwage figures). That makes it four units paying that much as well as some more 'possibles' that we know of. Why don't other units pay that much if four can manage it? - it may have something to do with the most influential body in british archaeology saying that ?258 is a perfectly sufficient amount.... But if four can manage it, so can the rest... not phased in but now (or next year to be realistic!).