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tech writer salary / wage trends [Re: STC certification: what's in it for tech writers?]
Subject:tech writer salary / wage trends [Re: STC certification: what's in it for tech writers?] From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:47:52 -0700
The dot-com bubble created so many jobs at such inflated salaries that
it pulled up the national average in what was otherwise a slump. There
were a few other regional pockets of dot-com madness, such as NYC's
Silicon Alley.
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Dan Goldstein
<DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> wrote:
> I have nothing but sympathy for those who experienced it on the West
> Coast, but the Silicon Valley bubble wasn't a nationwide phenomenon in
> tech writing.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Kim-Eng
> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 1:05 PM
> To: Dan Goldstein
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: STC certification: what's in it for tech writers?
>
> I'm pretty sure the chart for the 1990's showed a big peak during the
> dot-com, with a drop of more than 5000 jobs during the period from
> 2000-2003, but the chart seems to have disappeared off the internet now.
> On a local basis, anyone who was attending the Silicon Valley STC
> meetings before, during and after the dot-com can tell you about
> meetings that filled hotel conference facilities at the peak and
> gatherings of two dozen people in 2003.
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