21st September 2012, 10:43 PM
How many local authority units are there left now? Local Government Archaeology Services perhaps and there the wages are actually not that bad (if you are lucky enough to be employed as they are rapidly going to the wall). Get rid of the Local Government curators/ planning archaeologists and you run the risk of developments taking place without archaeological mitigation. So who wins? I do not think different sectors in archaeology should be blaming each other for crap wages. What we do is not valued and too many people are willing to do it for bugger all wages, Catch 22.