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RE: What's a good freelance rate for technical writers?
Subject:RE: What's a good freelance rate for technical writers? From:"Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:07:42 -0400
BLS shows $96,900, which is pretty close to Salary.com. Wonder why the
FTE wage/contractor rate ratio in CA is so different from here.
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From: Robert Lauriston
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 12:00 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: What's a good freelance rate for technical writers?
Salary.com says the average salary for a Technical Writer IV in Silicon
Valley is $98,000, which would be $980 a day, or >$120 an hour, about
twice what companies are actually paying.
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