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Re: "Employment and salary outlook for technical writers based on the 2017-2018 STC Salary Database"

Subject: Re: "Employment and salary outlook for technical writers based on the 2017-2018 STC Salary Database"
From: Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>
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Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 16:40:34 -0800

On 1/8/2019 10:00 AM, Robert Lauriston wrote:

Those numbers for San Jose - Sunnyvale - Santa Clara are completely
implausible. There were more tech writers employed in the area in
2010, in the depths of the recession, than there were in 2016, after
five years of tech-sector boom?

Correct. Many tech writers in the Bay Area and Sacramento area are consultants rather than employees and often from India. Restrictions on H1B visa sponsorship are reducing consulting positions but raising costs for employment. Technical writer positions sometimes got rolled into other positions to save costs. The costs of other positions, like analysts, are often higher than technical writers, so companies might hire technical writers at a lower cost who will also do the work of the higher cost positions.


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