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Salaries fall up to 20% as jobs market contracts

By 2020-07-27T06:00:00

Martin Bennell

Employers’ market leads to huge increase in temporary contracts

Architects are accepting salary cuts of up to a fifth just to get a job, according to a specialist recruitment consultant.

They are also going for jobs at a lower level than their experience qualifies them for as the market shrinks in the face of the predicted recession.

“I just need to work and pay my bills is becoming an increasingly common theme in conversations,” said Martin Bennell, managing director of Frame Recruitment.

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