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

[Jonathan Baker <jbaker2525 -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Using the BLS data is pretty meaningless. In theory, it might be better to use STCâs membership number, which is a small percentage of the total set of tech writers and doesnât care what the business type is. If you use 10%, then the field of tech writers would be 40k. Unfortunately, few associations hit a number as high as 10% of the field. Consider, too, that STC had 24k members in 2005. That suggest the field had about 250k practitioners at the time. Even, if my crude calculations are off by a good bit, youâd be hard pressed to convince anyone that the field is growing worldwide. 

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> On Jan 8, 2019, at 9:29 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
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> This ruling is about what defines an independent contractor, not about how many people are in the labor market as one.
> 
> I doubt the BLS is doing data mining of business licenses, but if they are I still won't be in their technical writer numbers because my title is "Owner."
> 
> Gene Kim-Eng
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> 
>> On 1/8/2019 5:30 PM, Lauren wrote:
>> Changes in the law can change the status for many 1099 workers after a CA state supreme court ruling triggered some intense lobbying in the legislature.
>> https://abc7news.com/business/2-million-ca-workers-may-be-impacted-by-independent-contractor-changes/3949384/ 
>> 
>> Local rules in places like San Jose require that 1099 consultants have a business license, so business license data could be of use, if that is available.
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