how low can they go?
Occasionally, the spam mail folder is opened, for some reason the message from 'joinrps' caught attention (see copy text below):
LATEST JOBS
Details of your selected vacancy are outlined below.
Graduate Stack Emissions Tester Milton Keynes
RPS Group is major global energy, planning and environmental consultancy
with over 5,000 staff and with offices in Europe, Australia, SE Asia,
Middle East, Russia, Africa, America and Canada.
RPS Health, Safety and Environmental provides consultancy, due diligence
and corporate services to commercial property owners and developers,
financial institutions and commercial lenders, managing agents, property
managers, industrial clients, local authorities and the wider public
sector.
Job Title: Graduate Stack Emissions Tester Location: Milton Keynes
We currently have an opportunity for a Graduate looking to gain
experience in the Health & Safety/Environmental sector. The role
includes stack emissions and atmosphere testing, monitoring the
industrial process. This will be a 12 month contract, based in the
Milton Keynes area. Salary on offer is £13k circa
We are an equal opportunities employer.
This type of starting salary has not changed from 20 years ago! Since then of course, the elite beneficiaries of free (i.e. taxpayer subsidised) tertiary education has imposed tuition fee and living costs debts onto the current generation of graduates. On the basis of this advertisement at least, there are no so-called desperate shortages of science graduates; if so, according to the free market, salaries are supposed to have risen???