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It's Friday night, and I'm officially on vacation (hurray!!). I have an
idea....
Maybe we can get 10 people to pay $10 each and get the paid version and then
share it? I'd be interested to see the depth of information provided.
Judging from the free version (and keeping in mind I'm in Canada), the
salaries reported really do suck. There's a big drop from 5 years ago. I
swear I never lied on the STC salary survey, but now I (and almost every
other techwriter I know) make so much more than the average. This is not a
good thing, in my mind. How can I hope to get decent increases when salary
surveys like this would only encourage my employer to freeze my salary.
Suzette Leeming
Stouffville, Ontario
On Nov 23, 2007 1:48 PM, Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> BLS is indeed by title, and if my understanding is correct, what the
> STC did is go through all the data for all representative titles. I
> can't verify as I haven't seen the offering yet, and am certainly not
> going to pay $99 as a STC member to learn about the data. I've posted
> my questions in the STC Forum for discussion. It's seen a good amount
> of discussion, but I'm afraid not enough detail from those who decided
> to implement this model. I still await information about their plan,
> which they say they have. That they aren't openly sharing the plan
> says that either they don't trust the membership with the info or they
> really don't have a plan after all.
>
> The discussion:
>http://stcforum.org/viewtopic.php?id=1138&p=1
>
> On Nov 23, 2007 1:03 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
> > If my understanding of BLS data collection is correct,
> > it's based on job titles, which means that BLS data is
> > derived from everyone whose employer reports their
> > job title as "technical writer," as opposed to the old
> > survey data that came from those who "tend to take the
> > profession more seriously-and therefore tend to be
> > better compensated."
>
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