25th May 2006, 01:31 PM
Mercenary, David's figures are an accurate guide, bn my opinion specialist archaeological consultancies pay a little less for a newbie fresh from the field than a larger multi-disciplinary type of organisation who don't understand archies too much. My organisation is one of the latter and I was looked at in shocked disbelief when I told them my fieldwork supervisory salary at my interview. The specialist archy consultancies know exactly how much they can get away with paying their new staff as they know they'd be really grateful for 'just' a few grand above their field salaries.