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Subject:Salary Survey from STC From:Toni Williams TPG/SG <towilliams -at- PROCYONGROUP -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 10 Jun 1998 11:00:38 -0700
Steve Taylor wrote:
>How
>many technical writers out there, either independent or otherwise, who
make
>100K a year (gross)? Remember, according to the survey, that's a
median,
>which means half of all salaries are higher...
I'm in Los Angeles with 15+ years in software end-user documentation and
*I* don't make close to 100K gross.
BTW, I have a friend who sold yellow-page advertising to ATT in Virginia
and made 70K :-o!
Toni Clark Williams
The Procyon Group
Documentation Department
