The Project Advisory Group overseeing the inaugural salary benchmarking project has released an interim report to share the archaeological and comparator salary data it has collected.
CIfA announced in May that it would spearhead the development of a salary benchmarking project to collect salary data for a range of archaeological job roles and benchmark them against comparator roles in other professions. The work is being undertaken in partnership with Prospect trade union and guided by a project advisory group including representatives from Prospect, CIfA’s Advisory Council, the Early Careers Special Interest Group and BAJR, drawing upon additional expertise.
The objective of CIfA’s salary benchmarking project is to provide anonymised, aggregated salary data for a range of archaeological job roles across the sector and a comparison with similar roles in select professions that archaeologists work alongside. This will provide information to the sector which can be used by employers and employees to benchmark roles within their organisations and beyond and a basis for championing better paid roles. The aim is for this to become a regular survey which can inform collaborative work across the sector to improve the way archaeologists’ skills are valued and rewarded.
The final report will be published later in the year. We welcome feedback from across the sector on how we can improve data collection and presentation and how the work might evolve to ensure that it is providing timely, accurate and useful data.
