What makes you believe that?
I hope you're right, but given the recent pressures on the discipline due to the economic downturn, I would think that the opposite would be the case, as gov't agencies continue to shed workers, more experienced excavators are replaced by untrained "labourers," and the whole system gets downsized and outsourced.

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I understand that salaries in archaeology are lower than in many other fields. Salaries have improved over the past couple of decades and should improve more in the future.