I'm quite impressed it's even 5K
My salary goes up by £2300 in London. Fucking matched salary scales. Mind you, I can't complain, I'm not at all badly paid except when I remember the salary I left in industry :( :(
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:29, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

It's around that
a lot of the jobs at Imperial/UCL are fairly well paid even before the weighting. Around £20k is average for a technician now, but I'm a ways off that sadly.
(berk, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:33, Reply)

ah, right
I thought all the academic scales were matched? I got the same salary when I moved from UCL to here because they couldn't pay a lecturer any more and they wouldn't give me SL straightaway. Bah.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:38, Reply)

I think support staff are different to academic
Certain areas it's 17-21, but in places like Cambridge and London it's 20-24. Either way, it's always between 17-24.
(berk, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:42, Reply)

ah, right so.
I'll hardly say "lucky you" given how shite support salaries in academia are.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:43, Reply)

Put it this way
If I'd gone in to the graduate scheme at McDonalds, by now I'd probably be earning twice as much. Sad, isn't it?
(berk, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 15:46, Reply)

yeah. It really is.
Did you see the fucking GQ "rock stars of science" thing? how can a society be so fucked up? Why do we want our scientists to be compared favorably to rock stars? for fucks sake, in any civilised society it should be the other way round.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 16:06, Reply)

Remember of course that GQ has a target audience of
"Hurr, tits!"-grade australopithecines.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 16:16, Reply)

It's a US TV campaign I think :(
not just the magazine.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 16:26, Reply)