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Sounds like a very cool job, and not sure about the UK job market, but seems to be wildly underpaid for the qualifications!
by pants2 4mo ago
Sounds like a very cool job, and not sure about the UK job market, but seems to be wildly underpaid for the qualifications!
- y-curious 4mo agoEspecially considering minimum wage “salary” in the UK is ~24k GBP, 64k is nothing imo. They call it the “wage squeeze”
- UnfitFootprint 4mo agoAverage full time salary is 40k GBP. It’s +50% on the average which seems right for a non profit organisation in a non exec role
- jacknews 4mo agoIt is a leadership role though. I don't know how many staff there are, but it's surely one of EH's most important locations.
- enraged_camel 4mo agoYeah, but 25 days holiday plus bank holidays means you're working like half the year at most. ;)
- dylan604 4mo agoAnd don't you knock of at lunch on Fridays anyways? So that's like a 4 day work week, because let's face it, you're not really doing anything on the day you're knocking off early anyways. See you at the pub!
- marysol5 4mo agoRead-Only-Fridays, and having a pub lunch so you're not doing much all afternoon anyway!
- loeg 4mo agoThis is like 90th percentile UK salary. It's good pay for the UK, a poor country.
- geysersam 4mo agoLet's not be delusional. The UK is not a poor country, and 64K is low by US tech standards but it's good by any other measure.
- bpodgursky 4mo agoIt's not a "good" wage in the US. It's exactly median. Which is fine, someone has to be median, but really underwhelming for the (presumably highly-educated and talented) head of the #1 national historical monument.
- mrwh 4mo agoIt's £64K, not $64K (which is indeed about the median in the US). So, not bad.
- bpodgursky 4mo agoAh I misread that, but $86k is still not good for a highly educated professional.
- laurencerowe 4mo agoThe UK has had substantially less wage inequality than the US for a long time. The UK “wage squeeze” is median/minimum wage which has gone from the 1/3 to 2/3 since ~2000 as the minimum wage has been raised. But the relevant difference here would be around 90th percentile/median which is 1.85 in UK vs 2.4 in US and even higher in California.
- hdgvhicv 4mo agoAnd over time the ratio is similar - 90%ile about 1.9 times median for the last 30 years.
- swarnie 4mo agoJust a smidge over $63k after tax and before gibbs. The job market over here is shocking.
- dismalaf 4mo agoLol in Canada 64,000 pounds = $120K CAD which would put you in the 92nd income percentile.
- loeg 4mo agoThis is equivalent to $85,700 USD, not $63k.
- ai-roundup 4mo ago[dead]
- techterrier 4mo agothis isnt all that *bad for something in the conservation / heritage / ngo sector edit: *obviously its not a wonderful salary, but for the sector....well I've seen worse.
- kaonwarb 4mo agoNot disagreeing, but it's also worth something to know, and say, that you are in charge of Stonehenge.
- sva_ 4mo agoMust be an extraordinary honor to be in charge of a bunch of rocks over there.
- 650REDHAIR 4mo agoYes?
- cyclopeanutopia 4mo agoWait until you learn some people are swapping bits all day long, isn't that crazy?
- kefabean 4mo agoI call them Bit Shepherds
- loeg 4mo agoThis is like a 90th percentile UK salary.
- marysol5 4mo agoIn reality, because the "salaries" higher than this aren't paying in PAYE.
- bdavbdav 4mo agoI’m not sure that’s strictly true. I think you’ve got to go a long way up the salary ladder until you’re in a situation where you can command more complicated arrangements (certainly when working for larger companies)
- zipy124 4mo agono. Most UK income statistics are based on total taxable income, not salary.
- YZF 4mo ago36 hours per week. 25 days vacation (going to 28). Pension contributions. You can buy extra leave. Epic location, fun job, decent salary for the UK (where e.g. you don't pay for healthcare)...
- Tepix 4mo agoYeah, the 25 days of vacation are a bit disappointing, in Germany 30 days are standard.
- tikkabhuna 4mo agoIs that including or excluding bank holidays? In the UK, 25 days excluding the 8 bank holidays is pretty standard.
- Tepix 4mo agoExcluding
- wyclif 4mo agoTalked to a German guy who was here on holiday recently. When I told him that in the US it's typical to get two weeks vacation when starting a new job, you should have seen his eyes bug out. It was hilarious.
- robotresearcher 4mo agoYou do pay for healthcare, from the taxes on that salary.
- phyzix5761 4mo agoDon't forget to deduct the 25% effective tax rate. Calculator: https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/estimate-paye-take-home-pay/your-pay https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/estimate-paye-take-home-pay/y...
- jrflo 4mo agoI'm not in the UK, but from what I understand that's actually decent. US salaries, particularly in tech, are wildly higher than in most of Europe.
- oaiey 4mo agoUK tech salaries are also not high. And 64k pounds for a history and/or business major is quite right. Do not forget also: history is a overrun study with many people afterwards driving taxis
- vintermann 4mo agoI wouldn't mind a few more archaeologists. They may be many compared to the jobs available, but there should be more jobs available.
- kristianc 4mo agoThis, shockingly, is actually quite well paid considering for the UK. Lead Data Scientist for the UK Government is currently advertising for a salary of £57,670 - £67,500. https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?jcode=2000448 https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?jco...
- hdgvhicv 4mo agoGovernment jobs are terribly paid. They tend to have good pensions worth another 15-20k though and tend to be very flexible. Project manager on 65-85k https://uk.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=a43416327745431e https://uk.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=a43416327745431e Lead data scientist 100-110k https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/lead-data-scientist/56925078 https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/lead-data-scientist/56925078 Neither of those are London based.
- bdavbdav 4mo agoThat’s government. They’re notoriously underpaid.
- philipwhiuk 4mo agoAnd this is third sector.
- moomin 4mo agoThe charity sector rarely pays well.
- ascorbic 4mo agoThis is a decent salary for a heritage job. It is a very poorly-paid sector. On building sites with archaeological excavations, the person driving the digger is likely to be paid more than the archaeologists, who probably have postgraduate degrees.