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If it helps, I didn't realize they were reassessing the salary info
and using 3rd party data either. Not much I can do about it now other
than complain, but that's pointless until I actually see the data in
both the free and paid-for offerings.
On Nov 13, 2007 12:38 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
> The STC explanation sounds to me as if they revised the
> survey because the peer-based survey "lacked credibility"
> with HR "users," who generally can't distinguish between a
> writer with expertise and an admin who knows how to edit
> an engineer's Word drafts. but are probably tired of having
> hiring managers like me constantly going to upper
> management to argue that their established tech writer
> salary ranges are too low to attract the kind of experienced
> writers that need to be hired.
>
> It's possible I'm misinterpreting what they're saying, but I
> do know that nobody from STC ever asked me whether
> the old survey was useful to me as a tech pubs manager.
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