How much does an archaeologist earn per month? Tshedza Maradwa (13)

The answer is probably ‘not enough’ … but, as with any profession, earnings vary according to experience and qualifications. If you want to get an idea of what earnings are like then have a look at the British Archaeological Jobs Register website which advertises everything from site assistants (‘diggers’) to heads of large archaeological teams. Like lots of archaeologists of my generation I became an archaeologist not for the money but because it was something that I believed in, and still do. My first full time job after leaving university paid me £30 a week – and even in 1975 that wasn’t very much – so things have got a lot better since then!