November 13th, 2003

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Another Tech Writer Survey

Apparently I completed this survey at some point, and so they (Metri-Mark Inc) sent me the results. I guess there aren’t really any surprises, though the following are noteworthy:

  • 11% of respondents are unemployed.
  • Only 52% of the surveyed writers work in high-tech…I’d have thought that’d be considerably higher.
  • “Lack of work for your staff” was ranked as the 4th most common problem for managers.
  • The STC apparently pulls a lot of weight in terms of finding new employees.
  • 33% of these people are making more than 80K a year? What the hell? Sure, half the people surveyed are managers, but that’s a heck of a lot of moola. And half the respondents say they’re underpaid!

Comments: One Response so far

David Locke
January 7th, 2004
6:05 pm

Old survey. There are people who were not laid off and are still employed by their dot boom employer. Their wages have not fallen. For the rest of us, wages are down around $50-60k.

The reason the percentage is down is that most laid off TWs had to go into other work like most of the laid off programmers. They are gone. And, they don’t see any reason to return.

The dot boom did drag a lot of people into TW. They have moved on.

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