RE: Can this career be saved?

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

The only time I worked for a company where the accountants decided how
much to pay the tech writers, it was a company that specialized in
accounting software, so the guys in charge were also accountants. And
they paid very generously.

Also, $45 an hour is reasonable for an FTE. I wouldn't accept it as a
consultant, but then, a consultant doesn't come in and ask how much a
company pays. A consultant comes in and tells the company how much s/he
charges, and the company decides whether to hire the consultant.


-----Original Message-----
From: William Sherman
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 2:09 PM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Can this career be saved?

>From a recent ad on a tech writer forum:

"We are experienced in manually distribute your Articles .We are charges
for 
100 submission for $15, 500 submission for $65, 1000 submission for $120
,"

Guess the country.  Now most on here can clearly see this "English" is
no 
where close to being the quality that any tech manual should be, yet
some 
accountants in many companies will see paying a decent US technical
writer 
$30 to $45 per hour and compare to the above prices...




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