> Exactly. If you want to study archeology, good luck finding a 500K salary in industry. Academia might be your only option, full stop. I don't know what the

> Exactly. If you want to study archeology, good luck finding a 500K salary in industry. Academia might be your only option, full stop. I don't know what the salaries are, but there is actually a private archaeological industry which services the need in many countries to do archaeological excavations prior to construction.