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Furniture conservator/restorer : Salary and conditions

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  • Range of typical starting salaries: £17,000 - £25,000.
  • Salaries for those with experience (e.g. after 10 - 15 years in the role): £23,000 - £42,000.  
  • Salaries vary between employers but are usually relatively low, even for practitioners with a high level of experience and professional qualifications.
  • Many furniture conservators and restorers are self-employed, often specialising in a particular type or period of furniture. Incomes, therefore, vary considerably depending on a range of factors, including your ability to promote your own work.
  • Working hours vary depending on whether you are self-employed or working for an organisation or small company, and on whether you are working to a deadline.
  • Work is often based in a workshop environment, and practitioners may either work alone or share the space with other furniture conservators and restorers.
  • There are opportunities for those with experience to work on a consultancy basis for museums, stately homes and other organisations.
  • Competition for work in this area is strong. There are relatively few job opportunities and low levels of movement from one job to another, with most furniture conservators and restorers staying in one job for a long period.
  • A comparatively large number of furniture conservators and restorers go into the field as their second or third career, so the proportion of mature entrants is relatively high.
  • The work may require a certain amount of day-to-day travel to different locations to work on different projects.
  • Overnight absence from home and work or travel overseas are uncommon.
 
AGCAS
Written by Jill Freeman, AGCAS
Date: 
July 2011
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