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Subject:Re: Reference for Salary Ranges? From:"Brown, Judi" <JHB -at- BTV -dot- MSMAIL -dot- IDX -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 1 Nov 1996 10:19:00 EST
The Society for Technical Communication just released their Salary survey
in the latest issue of Intercom. It's a fairly good reference source for
this information.
Unfortunately, our Human Resources department decided they could not use
it as a basis for setting salary ranges because the survey does not
include descriptions of the positions (e.g., tech writer in one company
could be very different than tech writer in another company).
Judi
Technical Writing Manager (prior to decentralization (been there?), now
Lead Tech Writer on Integrated Product Line)
IDX Systems Corporation (BrownJ -at- idx -dot- com)
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Sent: Friday, November 01, 1996 9:07 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Reference for Salary Ranges?
Would like to find a reference for salary ranges based on skill sets,
geographical location, etc. I've seen article in some software and
hardware
trade magazines, but haven't noticed any for technical writers, hypertext
developers, trainers, etc.
Please direct me to a "reliable" source for this data!
Thanks!
Laura Storey
Chief Documentation Specialist
lstorey -at- openport -dot- com
