Buckingham Palace comms job

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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

It weeds out the peasants who need to work to earn money to live.

Pay peanuts, get monkeys.

Oh yes indeedy...

That’s a disgraceful salary for that job! I got offered £45k outside of london for a comms job 2 years ago.

Explains a lot lately

Yes, I wonder if they still do that

They give free hot lunches every day which helps a lot!

These jobs - and those in traditional publishing, fashion, film making, the arts in general - are all aimed at a particular kind of gel (Cheltenham Ladies College or the right kind of home education) or chap (Eton and the rest) (but mostly gels) who don't need the money but have a nice Trust fund or inheritance to rely on.

They all bounce around in the same circles, never really mixing with ordinary people in any meaningful way, I reckon they sometimes think we're hired to play peasants as part of the whole staging of society...

I'm not and never have been a Royalist so it's all very entertaining right now.

Definitely a type of person they are looking for. I heard someone like that on the radio, can’t remember her job title, talk about the altered photoshop image and she sounded hopelessly out of touch with the ‘common’ peoples perspective.

Looks like minimum wage or just above, plenty others work for that in London, job is probably very junior, doesn't look like you need a degree, just says Excel knowledge.

It's a crap salary, TBF the lunches are amazing, at least they were when I did a summer job there as a student. 3 courses 🤤

I thought there’d been a push away from it being for a certain kind of person. I read an interview where it was mentioned the number of people in their offices who hadn’t gone to private school had increased substantially and they were trying to push for more. But this doesn’t really fit with that, so maybe it was just PR bollocks.

Maybe, but this is a junior sounding (from the job description possibly entry level) role. Surely most communications departments have one or more assistants!

@MariaVT65 was the salary you quoted really for job as an assistant?

It's not my sector, but the UKtalent.com website gives average salary nationally as £24,840; and the job ad gives London comparator of £27k (non clear if either of the packages with those salaries include non-contributory pension)

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I wonder what sort of person has actually done this job before?

Ok yes fair enough, but i think the JD covers more than an assistant role. Either way, it’s a poor salary and it’s difficult enough to get good people for comms roles as it is.

It’s an entry level assistant role - I think it’s pretty typical for the industry.

The person isn’t managing stressful work, just diary spreadsheets

It’s not a brilliant salary but it is clearly aimed at a school leaver, its entry level, no real requirements beyond enthusiasm and a good attitude. It’s basically a junior admin role that happens to be in the comms team.

It's probably aimed at a young person that is not going to go to university and is after an office type job so the pay is probably about right for junior admin. You wouldn't expect an eighteen year old to go into an assistant job paying £40k, many with a degree don't get that

It’s also producing content and responding to media enquiries.

JD often coveres bit more than it will be. The "creating content" can well be simply being part of meetings where content ideas are discussed or "hey can you put this into canva template"...
Responding to media queries will be forwarding it to person who knows and then sending answer back.

Jobs iften sound glam or harder than they are. Agin, this is AA or AO basically. That is the salary. But I am glad to see many outraged about how underpaid civil service is. Support future strikes

That just means pulling together press releases and answering the phone

It's a very basic salary compared to the civil service equivalent and if they are only looking for the "right type" then it explains why their comms has been so bad. But the King's team does seem less clueless.

I've just googled

It's offering slightly more than the governmental communications assistant jobs that are currently advertised, and is nearer the top than the bottom of the pay range for communications apprentices (which is ~£21k - ~£28k)

I'm sorry but whatever way you spin it it's disgusting. Tax payer funded people living in luxury while paying their staff under the living wage in London!!! It's vile