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Subject:Re: Tech Writer Compensation From:"Shelly M. LaRock" <smlarock -at- MTU -dot- EDU> Date:Mon, 13 Feb 1995 16:23:19 EST
Ok, ok, here it is: the final release.
I realize now that tech writers should make just as much money for writing a bro
chure
as they do for writing a manual.
I think I just had the size and length of a project confused with the pay scale.
Regardless of what I am writing/producing, I want to get paid what my work is
worth. But from experience, I have found that I was paid less for making brochu
res
than I was for writing manuals--sometimes by a difference of 50%. I've also bee
n
paid less for writing technical articles. But this, of course, doesn't make it
fair
to pay tech writers less for one type of project than for another.
