25th August 2008, 01:11 AM
Have no sound ATM so clip was a bit lost on me, but my thoughts on the general topic.
In order to compare like with like you have to be able to know what someone is actually doing to earn their salary. Easier said than done when in archaeology there are a multiplicity of job titles for the same job, and worse, there are some jobs with the same title and completely different specs depending on the employer.
It does get a bit easier once you get to PO level, but below that is a minefield. I've know experienced excavators doing supervisors jobs, supervisors doing project officers jobs, people with job titles no one else has ever heard of. I've even heard of people being promoted up to supervisor within a unit when they needed one, then demoted back down to digger pay when no longer required as such (shameful behaviour).
I suppose the way forward is to have a recognised list of ranks related to the autonomy and responsibility of the individual within the organisation. E.g. Do you have primary responsibility for recording? Do you regularly supervise others, and if so how many? Do you regularly write archive reports? Etc.
In order to compare like with like you have to be able to know what someone is actually doing to earn their salary. Easier said than done when in archaeology there are a multiplicity of job titles for the same job, and worse, there are some jobs with the same title and completely different specs depending on the employer.
It does get a bit easier once you get to PO level, but below that is a minefield. I've know experienced excavators doing supervisors jobs, supervisors doing project officers jobs, people with job titles no one else has ever heard of. I've even heard of people being promoted up to supervisor within a unit when they needed one, then demoted back down to digger pay when no longer required as such (shameful behaviour).
I suppose the way forward is to have a recognised list of ranks related to the autonomy and responsibility of the individual within the organisation. E.g. Do you have primary responsibility for recording? Do you regularly supervise others, and if so how many? Do you regularly write archive reports? Etc.