Compensation Surveys for Technical Communicators

Society for Technical Communication (STC)

All STC surveys of salaried employee compensation (left column, below) include median salaries sorted by 2- and 3-digit US ZIP codes and, for Canada, by provinces. More recent surveys also report median salaries for respondents in the UK and Israel.

2005 & 2006 US Salary & Rate Survey (from BLS)
2005 US & Canadian Salary Survey
2005 India Salary Survey
2004 US & Canadian Salary Survey
2003 US & Canadian Salary Survey	2003 US & Canadian Contractor Compensation Survey
2002 US & Canadian Salary Survey
2001 US & Canadian Salary Survey	2001 US & Canadian Contractor Compensation Survey
2000 US & Canadian Salary Survey
1999 US & Canadian Salary Survey	1999 US Contractor Compensation Survey
1998 US & Canadian Salary Survey
1997 US & Canadian Salary Survey

Technical Publications Manager newsletter

2007 Technical Publications Manager survey results — Metri-Mark's private survey of (primarily US) professional trends, compensation, writer management, hiring resources, department promotion, and training

Bay Area Publications Managers' Forum (BAPMF)

2000 Bay Area Technical Publications Manager Salary Survey, and the raw results ( )

National Writers' Union (NWU)

• 1999 Writers' Salary Survey

SIGCHI (Special Interest Group for ACM's Computer-Human Interaction)

1998 Salary Survey

Information Architecture Institute

2003 Salary Survey

User Experience Design and Usability

2009 WritersUA Salary Survey ( )

2004 Salary Survey ( )

A word to the wise

Human Resources professionals often advocate paying new recruits in line with surveys from Radford, national temporary workforce suppliers, or the trade press. We applaud their attempts to keep inflation in check.

Before you accept their advice, we recommend that you review Synergistech's listings and their posted price thresholds. These are the prices local companies are willing to pay today.

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