| ▲ | pants2 3 hours ago |
| Sounds like a very cool job, and not sure about the UK job market, but seems to be wildly underpaid for the qualifications! |
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| ▲ | kaonwarb 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Not disagreeing, but it's also worth something to know, and say, that you are in charge of Stonehenge. |
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| ▲ | sva_ 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Must be an extraordinary honor to be in charge of a bunch of rocks over there. | | |
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| ▲ | YZF 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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)... |
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| ▲ | Tepix 29 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Yeah, the 25 days of vacation are a bit disappointing, in Germany 30 days are standard. | | |
| ▲ | tikkabhuna 4 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Is that including or excluding bank holidays? In the UK, 25 days excluding the 8 bank holidays is pretty standard. |
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| ▲ | kristianc 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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... |
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| ▲ | loeg 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This is like a 90th percentile UK salary. |
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| ▲ | moomin 27 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The charity sector rarely pays well. |
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| ▲ | phyzix5761 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Don't forget to deduct the 25% effective tax rate. Calculator: https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/estimate-paye-take-home-pay/y... |
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| ▲ | jrflo 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I'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. |
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| ▲ | oaiey 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | UK 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 |
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| ▲ | techterrier 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| this 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. |
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| ▲ | y-curious 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Especially considering minimum wage “salary” in the UK is ~24k GBP, 64k is nothing imo. They call it the “wage squeeze” |
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| ▲ | laurencerowe 13 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | 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 2 minutes ago | parent [-] | | And over time the ratio is similar - 90%ile about 1.9 times median for the last 30 years. |
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| ▲ | UnfitFootprint 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | 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 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | 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. |
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| ▲ | loeg 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | This is like 90th percentile UK salary. It's good pay for the UK, a poor country. | | |
| ▲ | gbro3n 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | somenameforme 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 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)... | |
| ▲ | kristianc an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Inquality has barely moved per Gini in the last thirty years, and GDP is very misleading. https://ifs.org.uk/data-items/gini-coefficient |
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| ▲ | geysersam 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | kristianc an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | If the UK were a US state, its GDP per capita would rank it roughly on par with or just below Mississippi, making it the poorest state in the union. | | |
| ▲ | aEJ04Izw5HYm an hour ago | parent [-] | | While true from a per capita equivalency and too close for comfort, the median net worth of an adult in the UK is roughly $150,000, while in Mississippi it's $15,000. Also, its public services are provided, which substantially affects the quality of life. |
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| ▲ | loeg an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The UK is poor and sprinting as fast as it can towards being poorer. | |
| ▲ | bpodgursky 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's £64K, not $64K (which is indeed about the median in the US). So, not bad. | | |
| ▲ | bpodgursky 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Ah I misread that, but $86k is still not good for a highly educated professional. | | |
| ▲ | oaiey an hour ago | parent [-] | | It is good for a professional with specialization in history. |
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| ▲ | enraged_camel 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yeah, but 25 days holiday plus bank holidays means you're working like half the year at most. ;) | | |
| ▲ | dylan604 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | 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! |
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| ▲ | swarnie 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Just a smidge over $63k after tax and before gibbs. The job market over here is shocking. |
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| ▲ | loeg 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | This is equivalent to $85,700 USD, not $63k. | | |
| ▲ | theodric 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Read it again. $63k after tax and before "gibbs" i.e. government-provided social distributions. |
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| ▲ | dismalaf 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Lol in Canada 64,000 pounds = $120K CAD which would put you in the 92nd income percentile. |
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