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Job: Head of Stonehenge

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Re: Job: Head of Stonehenge

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Post by hdgvhicv »

kristianc wrote: post #58
pants2 wrote: post #3

Sounds like a very cool job, and not sure about the UK job market, but seems to be wildly underpaid for the qualifications!

This, 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?jco...

Government 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

Lead data scientist 100-110k

https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/lead-data-scientist/56925078

Neither of those are London based.

Re: Job: Head of Stonehenge

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Post by curtisblaine »

madrox wrote: post #26

Building a henge, are we?

Technically Stonehenge is not an henge (even the term henge comes from Stonehenge)

> Ironically, even though Stonehenge has an earthwork circle around it (the earliest phase of the monument), it isn’t officially a ‘proper’ henge, as the main ditch is external to the main bank. It has to make do with being a ‘proto-henge’.

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/inspire-me/what-is...

Re: Job: Head of Stonehenge

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Post by tikkabhuna »

Tepix wrote: post #81
YZF wrote: post #39

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36 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)...

Yeah, the 25 days of vacation are a bit disappointing, in Germany 30 days are standard.

Is that including or excluding bank holidays? In the UK, 25 days excluding the 8 bank holidays is pretty standard.

Re: Job: Head of Stonehenge

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Post by hdgvhicv »

laurencerowe wrote: post #86
y-curious wrote: post #4

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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”

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.

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

Re: Job: Head of Stonehenge

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Post by IshKebab »

ksec wrote: post #83
Ndymium wrote: post #76

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As a Finnish dev with 12 years of experience, I can only aspire for such salary.

Are you serious? Sarcasm Don't translate well on internet.

He's serious. American programming salaries are an extreme outlier. You guys are in for a massive shock if they ever normalise.

Re: Job: Head of Stonehenge

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Post by hdgvhicv »

theodric wrote: post #35
loeg wrote: post #19

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This is equivalent to $85,700 USD, not $63k.

Read it again. $63k after tax and before "gibbs" i.e. government-provided social distributions.

63k after tax in the us is about 86k before tax, so about the same.

Although in the us you have to pay for healthcare on top of that.

Re: Job: Head of Stonehenge

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Post by ascorbic »

pants2 wrote: post #3

Sounds like a very cool job, and not sure about the UK job market, but seems to be wildly underpaid for the qualifications!

This 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.
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