5th July 2014, 08:25 AM
Wax Wrote:Interesting figures but do we know how they compare with five years ago? There has certainly been a cut back in university based units.
Wishful thinking to suppose there would ever be salary raises from a shortage of trained people entering the profession where there are still far more archaeology graduates than archaeology jobs xx(
If you click on the Year box at the top of the list you can get figures on the number of places offering archaeology courses back til 2008. The total number has actually increased over the years although some of the places change....my guess would be therefore that the number of students remains relatively consistent.
The relationship between supply, demand and wage levels is far more complex than suggesting that a deficiency in one may result in an increase in the other.......Important factors to bear in mind are the average age of a field archaeologist (currently 40+) and the gender bias of that age group.....these alone suggest that factors such as career aspiration, expected and required rewards and future career prospects for archaeologists are different and therefore difficult to compare with both other professions as well as established economic models......(Archaeology follows more closely what I would call the 'B&Q' model after that company's famous campaign to deliberately employ an older work force)
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