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Well, we can look at it as US Senior writers are underpaid or Indian
entry-level writers are underpaid. I think the later is more close to
reality and has a reason.
India does not have as good facilities for formal education in
Technical Communication as US has. The survey also finds out that only
13% of the Indian TCs have some formal education in TechComm, rest of
them lean it on the job. That means Indian companies have to invest in
internal training, mentoring of entry-level writers and probably
that's why the Indian entry-level writers earn much less than their US
counterparts.
Thanks,
Paresh
On 7/5/05, Mike O. <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> Then those Indian companies must really, really care about their
> employees. To match salary progression of the India survey, salary
> after 10 years would have to be > $200K in the US.
>
> Entry-level TW salary in the US is $43K (according to STC's 2003
> survey). In my experience, not many salaried TWs make more than that
> twice that, although I'm sure there are some at the margins. Once you
> approach six figures, you begin to attract the attention of the
> bean-counters ("We're paying a TECH WRITER how much??"). That's why
> contracting is so attractive for senior TWs.
>
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