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Subject:Reality Check II - salaries in the new world From:Rebecca Stevenson <rjstevenson -at- sprynet -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:11:40 -0500
Sorry to steal the thread title, but it's a good one.
I am in the Boston area. After 3 years of tech writing I was laid off
last fall. Following a lengthy dry spell I finally have an interview
lined up for next week. I am somewhat alarmed by the advertised
salary range for the position: it is, at the high end, 20% less than
what I was making at my last writing job. I know that the advertised
range isn't necessarily carved in stone, but it seems an inauspicious
starting point.
The position I am to interview for carries the adjective "senior;"
the position I got laid off from was as just a plain technical
writer. Titular advancement at far less pay seems to make a strange
equation, even if "senior" is defined in the loosest possible sense
(as it would have to be for them to be talking to me at all).
I'm not sure if they're being irrealistic, or if I am, hence my
question to the list. I expected that any new job would pay less than
my last one, given the change in the employment market between late
2000 and now, but I was hoping for a less drastic plunge. On the off
chance that they do make an offer, I don't want to hurt myself in the
long run by taking it just because right this minute I'm sick to
death of not working.
"The greatest act of faith we are capable of is that of loving
another more than we love ourselves, and occasionally we can
be quite good at it." - Li Kao, "Story of the Stone"
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