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Especially considering minimum wage “salary” in the UK is ~24k GBP, 64k is nothing imo. They call it the “wage squeeze”

UnfitFootprint 4mo ago
Average 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 ago
  It 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 ago
Yeah, but 25 days holiday plus bank holidays means you're working like half the year at most. ;)
- dylan604 4mo ago
  And 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 ago
    Read-Only-Fridays, and having a pub lunch so you're not doing much all afternoon anyway!
loeg 4mo ago
This is like 90th percentile UK salary. It's good pay for the UK, a poor country.
- geysersam 4mo ago
  Let'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 ago
    It'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 ago
      It's £64K, not $64K (which is indeed about the median in the US). So, not bad.
      - bpodgursky 4mo ago
        Ah I misread that, but $86k is still not good for a highly educated professional.
        oaiey 4mo ago
        It is good for a professional with specialization in history.
        hdgvhicv 4mo ago
        Superintendent of Mount Rushmore is paid $125–160k
        oaiey 4mo ago
        So roughly the same salary :). After subtracting health care, pension, etc plus currency exchange.
laurencerowe 4mo ago
The 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 ago
  And over time the ratio is similar - 90%ile about 1.9 times median for the last 30 years.

Average 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 ago
It 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 ago

Yeah, but 25 days holiday plus bank holidays means you're working like half the year at most. ;)

dylan604 4mo ago
And 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 ago
  Read-Only-Fridays, and having a pub lunch so you're not doing much all afternoon anyway!

loeg 4mo ago

This is like 90th percentile UK salary. It's good pay for the UK, a poor country.

geysersam 4mo ago
Let'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 ago
  It'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 ago
    It's £64K, not $64K (which is indeed about the median in the US). So, not bad.
    - bpodgursky 4mo ago
      Ah I misread that, but $86k is still not good for a highly educated professional.
      - oaiey 4mo ago
        It is good for a professional with specialization in history.
        hdgvhicv 4mo ago
        Superintendent of Mount Rushmore is paid $125–160k
        oaiey 4mo ago
        So roughly the same salary :). After subtracting health care, pension, etc plus currency exchange.

laurencerowe 4mo ago

The 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 ago
And over time the ratio is similar - 90%ile about 1.9 times median for the last 30 years.