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BLS is indeed by title, and if my understanding is correct, what the
STC did is go through all the data for all representative titles. I
can't verify as I haven't seen the offering yet, and am certainly not
going to pay $99 as a STC member to learn about the data. I've posted
my questions in the STC Forum for discussion. It's seen a good amount
of discussion, but I'm afraid not enough detail from those who decided
to implement this model. I still await information about their plan,
which they say they have. That they aren't openly sharing the plan
says that either they don't trust the membership with the info or they
really don't have a plan after all.
On Nov 23, 2007 1:03 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
> If my understanding of BLS data collection is correct,
> it's based on job titles, which means that BLS data is
> derived from everyone whose employer reports their
> job title as "technical writer," as opposed to the old
> survey data that came from those who "tend to take the
> profession more seriously-and therefore tend to be
> better compensated."
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