Buckingham Palace comms job

[Floopyfloop]

I have just noticed that they have a comms job advertised for Buckingham palace.

I do the same role in a rural area and they are offering the same wage for a role in central London which is ridiculous! Not to mention that the role would be really stressful given the issues with the royal family!

Surely the palace can afford to pay a living wage!

Communications Assistant
https://g.co/kgs/u66ETnW

[Nonewclothes2024]

Their jobs are notoriously badly paid.

[User14March]

They are notorious for underpaying but it’s the prestige & perks that make it attractive.

[Eleanorwishes]

Blimey that pay is shockingly bad. No wonder they keep getting things so wrong, their employees probably want to throw them under the bus. How could someone afford to live in London on that pay.

[urrrgh46]

That is a low salary. My Ds(21) is earning 30k + benefits + bonus outside London in a sales/communication role. He has no degree and 1yr work experience in an office based recruitment role. If they want talented & experienced people then they need to pay more than that!

[EverydayParis]

You don’t survive on it. This is the kind of job society young women do before they get married, like Kate Middleton did at Jigsaw or a lot of women do at Vogue House before meeting a financier or gentry to marry. It’s a whole lifestyle, do your day job here then on to Raffles or Annabel’s or your member’s club for the evening.

Like PP said it’s a job that places you right and gives you connections, that you can spring board into then working in a well paid role in PR or working for a private family. The pay is similar to a Parliamentary Advisor, which puts you on the pathway to being a SPAD or a very well paid job in public affairs consultancy. This is what PPE type grads go on to do.

[cathyandclaire]

Watching the comms from Kensington Palace over the last week or so, they should think about recruiting more experienced, skilled and appropriately remunerated PR professionals.

[MrsArcher23]

It's obviously targeted at someone very well connected from a particular type of independently wealthy background who does the role for the honour of supporting the RF in the tradition of their family over generations.

[BeachBeerBbq]

It's an AO grade isn't it basically. It should have London top up.
No susprise. This is standard AO salary ime and everyone knows salaries in CS are below standard going rates🤷

[benjoin]

They give you a free christmas pudding at christmas. Unless Charles cut that perk.

[BreakfastAtMimis]

That's actually a pretty good salary for a junior comms role. And let's face it, they will not be short of applicants!

[RokaandRoll]

That's a shocking salary and surely not a job any society- type person would want? I wouldn't think it was as prestigious as parliamentary advisor or anything in fashion, publishing, etc?

[RoseAndRose]

It's got a non-contributory pension scheme, and that will account for some/all of the £1k difference the ad cites for comparable jobs in London.

I don't know the sector - the the figure they give as benchmark typical for what looks like a junior assistant role?

[justforthisnow]

@MrsArcher23

It's obviously targeted at someone very well connected from a particular type of independently wealthy background who does the role for the honour of supporting the RF in the tradition of their family over generations.

Given the last few weeks, KP really need to consider an actual shit hot PR person with experience of similar challenges, like war zones or US Presidential races. The Sloane Ranger model is no longer fit for purpose.

[BeckyWithTheGoodHair010101]

I wouldn't get out of bed for that!

[clary]

Wow that is not enough money for a job that would (I imagine) require your presence in central London most days. Unless it comes with a flat in Buck House 😀

It's a comms assistant tbf not a comms officer or anything more senior, so for an entry-level comms role it's not bad; it's just the London factor makes it unaffordable, unless you have independent means as others comment.

I see you do get lunch tho :)

[LuluBlakey1]

@clary

Wow that is not enough money for a job that would (I imagine) require your presence in central London most days. Unless it comes with a flat in Buck House 😀

It's a comms assistant tbf not a comms officer or anything more senior, so for an entry-level comms role it's not bad; it's just the London factor makes it unaffordable, unless you have independent means as others comment.

I see you do get lunch tho :)

Edited

And discount on the tat they sell in the shops at BP, KP, Sandringham etc.

[clary]

hahah yes @LuluBlakey1 that's true, gotta be worth something that! Plus you get free entry lol

[Wickedlywearynamechange]

@cathyandclaire

Watching the comms from Kensington Palace over the last week or so, they should think about recruiting more experienced, skilled and appropriately remunerated PR professionals.

Yes.

[GreenClock]

Aaaand the mystery of why royal comms are so bad deepens….

[UnreliableNarrative]

Is that 5% pension not illegal? If it's non-contribution from the worker I thought the total had to be 8% under AutoEnrolment law.

[TokyoSushi]

The link doesn't work for me but I saw an interesting job on the Royal website a few years ago, it was basically quite an involved PA to William & Kate, I was astonished that the salary was around £23K. Agree that they're not really 'normal jobs for normal people' and more likely a route to something, or for people who are 'otherwise subsidised' and likely live in the family flat in Kensington or similar!

[Serenster]

Like many public sector jobs, they are poorly paid comparative to private sector jobs, but people take them because generally the experience they will get is enormous - working on things that are headline news can be pretty exciting, though perhaps not just right now 🤣 ; the contacts they will make are fantastic and the springboard it will give their career generally something they are prepared to take a low salary for a couple of years to obtain.

Interns in creative industries tend to be the family money types, as sometimes they are unpaid. You tend to get very smart and ambitious graduates from good universities interested in this type of public sector role. (The smart and ambitious graduates who just want to earn lots of money tend to go for financial services…)

(I say this as someone who spent a fair bit of time working in another niche but sought after public sector organisation. We never had any trouble recruiting even though most people had to take a pay cut to join us)

[OneSpoonyHiker]

They do it for the honour of working for such an esteemed fanily.

[TokyoSushi]

I still don't think they should be able to get away with paying such a poor salary because people will do it 'for the glory.' Glory doesn't pay the bills...

[penjil]

@OneSpoonyHiker

They do it for the honour of working for such an esteemed fanily.

It's just a shame the RF doesn't have the same notion of 'honour' towards their employees by paying them properly.