Fair Wage --revisited

[Bruce Brill <Bruceb -at- ACCENTSOFT -dot- COM>]

On 13 Mar 97 at 14:15, Bruce Brill wrote:

> I need to know (for purposes of salary determination):
>
> How much is 15 years technical (but not user's-manual) writing
> experience as an independent alternative energy engineer
> (with an MSc) worth
> in terms of technical writing experience in a computer
> software firm.  Of course, you may respond privately, since this
> might not be of general interest. Thanks for your responses. --bruce
> brill

Hi Jane and others who replied,
Thanks for responding to my query about the worth of tech writing time
prior to user's manual-writing experience.  I'd like to make the
question more specific... This is the situation:  A
particular tech writer has been with this particular software company
for 9 months.  He has excellent writing skills and --in addition to
the 15 years of non-user's-manual-technical writing experience, he was
also an independent journalist for the past six concurrent years.  We
need to equate his past experience to its worth in terms of
"user's-manual-technical writing."  Some opinions maintain that it's
not worth anything; others say it merits full value.  What do you
feel?  And what's your feeling based on?
 Hope this sharpens the question.
 Thanks for your answers.
 --bruce

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