Salaries in rural areas (New England)

[Elizabeth Sprague <elizabeth -dot- sprague -at- mgemaine -dot- com>]

Hello All -

I'm looking for a leg up on salary information for a mid-level and 
senior tech writing with some instructional design responsibilities in 
rural New England. 

We're talking rural with a cap-R in a HUB zone.  I have been hired into 
service position and asked, given my many years experience, to do tech 
writing/instructional design instead.  This after the State Employment 
office which referred me to the original job deleted all my tech writing 
experience out of my profile because "we've never had a request for that 
kind of work here."  Go figure.

I've looked at STC but the info there is heavily urban and has zilch for 
my state.  I am a day's drive from any settlement that ever was 
considered a relation to anything with 'Silicon' in it's nickname.

I even scanned STC's info for salaries in AL and MS thinking that salary 
offerings there might be relevant to my situation.  Nothing there. 

I'm anticipating push-back in renegotiation of my current salary.  Any 
ideas / resources out there?

TIA,

ECS

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