8th October 2013, 10:50 AM
Given that just 17% work in academia, they don't hlaf drag the average salary for all archaeologicst up. Still the average wage in the commercial sector of £24,757 doesn't seem so bad when you factor in managers, specialists etc, and seems to me to be less far behind the national average (c.£26k?) than in previous years, but that might be because other sectors have declined somewhat. Need to take time to read in more detail, but just goes to confirm how commercial archaeology is still getting the thin end of the wedge relative to its proportion of industry.