13th March 2006, 08:03 PM
Hi,
If we are aiming for the equivalent of ?300 a week ( ?15,600 per year) then that can be achieved by 2010 in the formula I suggested with AAWI +3%, starting from 2008.
The three units from Kevin?s survey are 8.16% of the sample (N= 49). If we add your unit (and this is a statistical no no biasing our sample) we have 8% of the sample (N= 50). If we take the estimated numbers of contracting units from profiling the profession page 14 http://www.archaeologists.net/modules/ic...eport1.pdf
(156 organisations carrying out field investigation)that is 12- 13 units may be paying at that level at the moment. This does not include any weighting for: part of the country, type of unit, type of client base and structure of unit, number of competitors in the area, regulation of unit?s catchments areas, structural impositions on unit by any parent organisation. all of which would effect how much a given organisation feels it could pay.
In the absence of national pay bargaining, strong active unions, in an extremely unregulated national situation with a large number of graduates wanting to work as archaeologists each year willing to work for very little, the only mechanisms in place to keep wages increasing above inflation are BAJR and the IFA minimum.
If we are aiming for the equivalent of ?300 a week ( ?15,600 per year) then that can be achieved by 2010 in the formula I suggested with AAWI +3%, starting from 2008.
The three units from Kevin?s survey are 8.16% of the sample (N= 49). If we add your unit (and this is a statistical no no biasing our sample) we have 8% of the sample (N= 50). If we take the estimated numbers of contracting units from profiling the profession page 14 http://www.archaeologists.net/modules/ic...eport1.pdf
(156 organisations carrying out field investigation)that is 12- 13 units may be paying at that level at the moment. This does not include any weighting for: part of the country, type of unit, type of client base and structure of unit, number of competitors in the area, regulation of unit?s catchments areas, structural impositions on unit by any parent organisation. all of which would effect how much a given organisation feels it could pay.
In the absence of national pay bargaining, strong active unions, in an extremely unregulated national situation with a large number of graduates wanting to work as archaeologists each year willing to work for very little, the only mechanisms in place to keep wages increasing above inflation are BAJR and the IFA minimum.