Technical Writer Jobs Market Data from STC
The Society for Technical Communication just updated their Salary Database with data from 2008. Though a member ship is required for a deep dive into the data, here are a few highlights:
- The Technical Writer Jobs market increased by only 1.5 percent in 2008. That’s just 740 new jobs for the whole country.
- New Jersey and Michigan gained the most new jobs
- Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, andPhoenix lost the most technical writer jobs
- The median salary got a small bump up to 61,620 USD
Once again, not a very encouraging report. Much of the growth was not in the traditional software development base, but in industrial equipment and goods. New jobs in Web writing and Content Strategy were up a lot more with a much higher median salary.
