Missed opportunity to say they’re ‘looking for a rock star to lead our team!’
They pretty much are, too. It certainly reads like some tech job ads. Rock star with 30 years experience. Graduate wages.
Job: Head of Stonehenge
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#42Honestly feels like a dream job. Imagine your ancestors smiling down on you if you are from Britain or just human.
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#43I caught a live stream of Stonehenge during this past Winter Solstice (it was cloudy, naturally) and the streamer provided a bit of trivia that I hadn't heard before:
George Washington's English ancestors, specifically Sir Lawrence Washington, were the owners of the West Amesbury Estate in Wiltshire, England, which included the land where the ancient Stonehenge monument sits. (Via Google)
If you hadn't that before, welcome to the "Huh, that's a funny coincidence" club.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is like 90th percentile UK salary. It's good pay for the UK, a poor country.
The UK is still the 5th biggest economy in the world. Public infrastructure feels like it's under huge strain however, and there is also a big problem with inequality, which seems to be changing under Labour, albeit slowly.
Raw economy size can be misleading in two ways. The value of a dollar is much less or much more depending on where you're at. So an economy of 10 shekels might mean an economy of 100 widgets, or it might mean an economy of 1 widget. Purchasing power parity (PPP) attempts to account for that. The second is that economies are largely a product of population. An economy of a million making a million shekels is quite a bit different than an economy of 10 making a million shekels, so you also want to look at per capita values. Even both of these adjustments combined [1] can be extremely misleading (see: Ireland and many other places...), but they provide at least a less unreasonable basis for comparison than nominal dollars. And the UK is currently 30th there.
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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.
It's £64K, not $64K (which is indeed about the median in the US). So, not bad.
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#47Building a henge, are we?
You bastards, you never told me 200 miles. 200 miles in this day and age! I don't even know where I live now!
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#48I would have thought you'd need to be a druid
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#49Missed opportunity to say they’re ‘looking for a rock star to lead our team!’
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It's £64K, not $64K (which is indeed about the median in the US). So, not bad.
Ah I misread that, but $86k is still not good for a highly educated professional.