13th August 2008, 07:22 PM
Its worth mentioning that English Heritage was paying diggers £18500 and supervisors £21k with generous benefits in 2007 / 2008. There must be a strong case for considering what EH and its non English British equivalents pay field staff as a standard.
Surely any argument made for linking archaeologists pay to local government pay scales could also be made for a link to national civil service pay scales. There is an existing, functioning job description and pay scale for archaeologists in the civil service specifically designed for archaeological field work and not cobbled together from bits of various council scales and job descriptions, so why not use it?
Surely any argument made for linking archaeologists pay to local government pay scales could also be made for a link to national civil service pay scales. There is an existing, functioning job description and pay scale for archaeologists in the civil service specifically designed for archaeological field work and not cobbled together from bits of various council scales and job descriptions, so why not use it?