feedback request on job description/salary etc

["Cayenne Woods" <cwoods -at- purplevoice -dot- com>]

Hello all

I'd like help, suggestions, guidelines about how to qualify my job(s) at the
moment. I was hired as a technical writer and am now doing three other jobs -
I've just found out there is to be only 3% raises, and told this is for everyone
in the company due to board directives (we need to bring some money in, which is
reasonable from their perspective). Of course there are the usual mentions of
big bonuses and stock options at some future point and tied to company success,
which I'm not gonna bank on.

I want to work out, however, how to evaluate what I'm doing and where I stand in
case I decide to look elsewhere. All the salary reviews I've looked at are
pretty much writing/editing-related, with managerial level and years of
experience taken into account. But they don't talk about some of these 'other'
things that I know many of us are doing in the course of our work.

I've now got about 4-5 years experience, but fairly major positions
(responsibility, well-known and respected companies, and some published work
with my name on it). I'm not a programming wiz, but learning some, and not an
html wiz but pretty good at working stuff out. Can find my way around graphics,
print and Web, and most publishing tools.

Currently, in addition to documentation (I'm it, so building the online Help,
admin guide, any support we offer) I'm managing our intranet site and have made
available most everything anyone in the company should need. I'm also the only
person working on our external Web site - it's been designed, so I'm improving
and rearranging it, rather than an entire design, but considerable work. I'm
maintaining both of these on my own. 

I've just taken on learning Teamtrack, our bug/issue tracking software, and
trying to redesign it (it's a mess, and nobody will use it as a result, so
records are not very good or useful. When I need to write release notes, which
is frequently, it's very difficult to see what's been done to the software.). So
I may become the main administrator of it, which involves maintaining both the
software and the database, and trying to make it usable.

With all these in mind - docs/manager, intranet, Internet, and bug database, any
ideas what my job title/description should include? And/or opinions on salary?
I'm in London, but from California, for geographical reference points. 

 I know this list is usually good for an opinion or two!!
thanks for any help 
Cayenne



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