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Re: TW Salaries--Is it me, or are people greedier? (Mild Vent)
Subject:Re: TW Salaries--Is it me, or are people greedier? (Mild Vent) From:Jo Francis Byrd <jbyrd -at- byrdwrites -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 13 Dec 2000 17:46:19 -0600
Don't know what salaries range in the D.C. area, but that does seem a
little...optimistic. In the Dallas area, such a person would probably go for
somewhere in the 50K range.
Let's hope the candidate with the typos looks a LONG time for a position!
"Pitt, Julie" wrote:
> I guess I've been WAY out of the loop as far as the labor market's concerned.
> It must really be a jobseeker's market when it comes to Tech Writing. I've
> recently screened 2 candidates with **less than 3 years of experience in Tech
> Writing** who were asking $70K/yr (metropolitan Washington, D.C. area). And
> one of the candidates actually had several typos in her resume.
>
> Call me bitter, but it took me almost 10 years in the field to reach that
> salary level, and I've been told I'm more than a competent writer.
>
> Sorry, I just had to vent. We return you to your regularly scheduled Plato vs.
> TECHWR-L fray.
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