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Re: Help Wanted, Salary Survey, Cost of Living calculator
Subject:Re: Help Wanted, Salary Survey, Cost of Living calculator From:Morgan Johnson <MORGAN -dot- JOHNSON -at- CHASE -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 29 Sep 1998 08:49:32 -0500
> You can go to one site to find Help Wanted and a Salary Survey for the
> IT professional. We also have a Cost of Living Calculator to compare
> salaries in 399 US cities.
>
>http://www.datamasters.com
They do include Tech Writers in the job base. The closest I could find in
the salary survey information was Telecommunications Specialist which is
what writers of user manuals for technical products (as opposed to
programmer reference works) are called in some areas of my shop.