11th September 2010, 11:37 AM
BAJR Wrote:my calculation ( rough just now) is 160 ish for a proper experienced field arch who is totally independant in actio... needing only being told here is the trench, this is our recording system... on you go. tightening up the labour only and true self employed would be useful. can the ifa do that? not sure.
So its actually ?160 a day for a proper archaeologist then? sounds about right to me for what I would regard as a real archaeologist rather than de-skilled trenchfodder, 'totally independant in action', well, I know what you mean, but of course everyone working on site needs to be working together and following the WSI and research aims etc etc under the direction of the supervisor.
Of course how many ?160 a day diggers does a site need, and how many on ?110 a day? But that is maybe a different thread....
Back on topic extrapolating up you can see that getting to ?200 is roughly correct. It may be 'Dream money' but that IS the comparative day rate to a PO level wage. But then how do we enforce these rates? And how do we judge when someone is good enough! Do we leave it to the market? Or encourage the professional body to develop guidance and advice for freelancers and employers of freelancers and try and bind them in somehow?
I don't know if the ifa can do it, but they are looking into it, andwe shall see. It will obviously take time, maybe they should look at rolling this together with developing their new approach to pay bands?