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I found a salary survey on the high tech industry, conducted by Robert Half
Associates. It's available for free. Its focus is not technical
communication, per se, but it addresses regional variations. Perhaps this
would be of interest to this discussion group.
On 11/13/07, Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
> > We kept hearing that the survey figures were suspect -- that members
> were
> > understood to be inflating their numbers. Comments?
>
> You run that risk with any survey. Period. Whether it was actually
> happening or not, we'll never know.
>
> > Meanwhile, is there yet any attempt by HQ to gather demographic info
> about
> > what industries members work in/with, so that we can see WHERE the
> various
> > kinds of TecComm jobs are?
>
> That would be nice.
>
> I'm also not privy to the actual job data being collected and
> (apparently) sold by the STC. If it's the type of job data that my
> company's HR department pays for already, it's good data. If it's as
> Gene describes, flush it.
>
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